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@Telenav Introduces New Cross Platform #Location API: @Proxpro Prompt, the #punctuality app and @Where Mentioned.

TeleNav Introduces TeleNav Connect and TeleNav Share -- APIs for Mobile and Web Developers to Connect to Navigation and Location Sharing Services

Multi-Carrier, Cross-Platform APIs Help Developers Simplify and Enhance Their User Experience by Leveraging TeleNav's Voice-Guided Navigation, Local Search, Maps and Location Services.

SUNNYVALE, CA, Nov 01, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TeleNav, Inc. (TNAV 6.50, +0.21, +3.34%), one of the largest global wireless location-based services providers, today announced TeleNav Connect and TeleNav Share, a pair of APIs available through the TeleNav Developer Platform. The APIs enable developers to connect TeleNav's location-based services, such as turn-by-turn directions and location sharing, to their mobile and web applications. The TeleNav Developer Platform helps developers reach more than 17 million TeleNav subscribers and enables seamless navigation and location sharing across all major mobile operating systems on hundreds of devices supported by the networks of TeleNav's U.S. carrier partners, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular, as well as a limited number of devices on the Verizon network. This cross-platform, multi-carrier, and device-wide support allows developers to effortlessly reach millions of users and deliver a consistent experience regardless of a user's device or carrier.

"We have made it easy for developers to use our APIs across all mobile platforms and give users access to location sharing from any mobile application or website," said Dariusz Paczuski, vice president of marketing for TeleNav. "When a developer wants to help their users drive to or share a location, they won't have to ask themselves which operating systems they can and can't support. With the TeleNav Developer Platform, they have one simple solution to deliver a consistent user experience whether they develop their app for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Phone 7, or any other major mobile platform."

TeleNav Connect TeleNav Connect is an app-to-app API that enables mobile application developers to provide users with a seamless process for launching one of TeleNav's location-based services from within their application. TeleNav Connect is designed to streamline and simplify the user experience of a developer's application by guiding users to specific locations. For example, an application providing restaurant information and reviews can use the TeleNav Connect API to include a "Drive-To" button within each listing. If the user chooses this option and is a TeleNav subscriber, TeleNav's turn-by-turn navigation application will launch and guide the user to the restaurant's location. In addition to voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation, developers can use TeleNav Connect to launch maps, driving directions, real-time traffic, and drive-time local search results from within their applications.

"WHERE is all about helping people discover where to go. TeleNav Connect helps our users get 'from WHERE to there' by enabling us to deliver an enhanced, seamless user experience," said David Chang, vice president, Products, WHERE, Inc. "The integration of the API also allows us to demonstrate to local merchants that our application not only helps consumers discover their business, but also drive to their front door."

"Utilizing TeleNav's API allows us to deliver a unique experience to users of Prompt, the punctuality app, by enabling turn-by-turn directions from within our application. The API closes the loop for our users -- when there is unexpected traffic, Prompt notifies the user to leave for a meeting early and TeleNav will guide them there," said Julian Bourne, founder and CEO of Proxpro, Inc. "Because TeleNav has such broad device support and a large user base, we can use the API to offer this enhanced experience across all of the mobile platforms for which we develop."

TeleNav Share TeleNav Share is an API designed to help users easily send an address from a website or a mobile application directly to their phone. Traditionally, when a user locates an address on a website, they must manually launch their phone's navigation application and type in the address. With TeleNav Share, developers can mobilize addresses on their websites by using the TeleNav Share API to place a "Send to Phone" option next to address listings. When a user clicks on this option, they are able to enter phone numbers and instantly send the address to their phone or share it with friends. If the user is one of the millions of TeleNav subscribers, the address will be available in the "Favorites" menu when they launch the application. For other users, the address will be sent to their phone via text message.

Developer Support The TeleNav Developer Platform, which includes TeleNav Connect and TeleNav Share, provides developers with a variety of tools designed to make integration of TeleNav's APIs into their applications quick and simple. TeleNav has launched a developer portal, http://developer.telenav.com, to provide developers with comprehensive information and documentation for implementing the company's APIs. The portal is designed to clearly explain the benefits each available API offers and provide support for participating developers through help forums and guides.

"Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for developers to offer the best search, navigation, and location experience for their users, and we feel the APIs and developer resources we offer help them do just that," said Paczuski. "Developers need points of differentiation in the crowded app market to grow their user base and reduce churn. Seamless navigation provides that differentiation and ensures a positive user experience with both the developer's application and TeleNav's location services."

Developers interested in incorporating TeleNav's APIs into their applications can register at http://developer.telenav.com or contact developer@telenav.com to receive more information and documentation.

About TeleNav, Inc. TeleNav, Inc. is a leading provider of consumer location-based services (LBS), enterprise LBS and automotive LBS. TeleNav's solutions provide consumers, wireless service providers, enterprises and automakers with location-specific, real-time, personalized services such as GPS navigation, local search, mobile advertising, mobile commerce, location tracking and workflow automation. TeleNav's technology is available across more than 500 types of mobile phones, all major mobile phone operating systems and a broad range of wireless network protocols. TeleNav's service providers and partners include AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, Cincinnati Bell, Ford Motor Company, NII Holdings, Rogers, Sprint Nextel, Telcel, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless and Vivo Brazil.

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com. Follow TeleNav on Twitter at www.twitter.com/telenav or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/telenav.

Footballer's Punctuality Problem Wrecks Career. Free Punctuality Offered to the Cardinals Team

Felipe Lopez has a problem with punctuality.  Here we witness how being late can damage your career. But John Mozeliak, the General Manager, was more worried about the damage being done to his authority and thus the potential negative impact on team performance.

Being late is usually blamed on traffic, oversleeping or delays organizing the kids.  However below the surface there are a number of reasons for this malaise: lack of focus, lack of self-discipline or an inability to organize.  Dare I say it , some disgruntled employees might use late arrival as a method to display disobedience to their employer - woe betide the next late comer at a Cardinals game.

A Special Offer to all Cardinal's Players - Free Punctuality!

There is an easy fix.  Download Prompt - the award winning punctuality app to BlackBerry and you won't be late again.  As a special offer I will give Prompt - Free of charge, to any cardinal''s player who wishes to be punctual, always.  Contact me directly  at business "atsign" proxpro.com.

Prompt - the Punctuality App now available on Verizon Vcast.

First LA Limo Service Slays LA's Traffic Beast using Punctuality Software

Mobile Punctuality App Slays the Traffic Beast

Punctuality is a crucial value for all professionals but for premium limo services punctuality is arguably the most important customer service indicator. 

As First LA Limo admit "Los Angles traffic is a beast" and the secret to First LA Limo's success is traffic-tracking software that validates drivers and passengers' travel time assumptions about future trips.

How to slay the traffic beast in your city.

Now traffic predicting software used by professional limo services is available to anyone with a BlackBerry device for any US city.  Proxpro the pioneers of predictive traffic software have built Prompt, the award winning leaders in Limo service punctuality software.

When there is unexpected traffic or construction on your next journey, Prompt - the punctuality app, tells you to leave early, so you are always punctual.  Working alongside your calendar, Prompt monitors the real-time traffic and predicts your travel time on the next journey, or daily commute, and automatically tells you it is time to leave.

"Prompt works beautifully, I know what traffic to expect, so I am always on time"
     - Patrick Mogauro, Town Car International

Try Prompt the punctuality app for free on BlackBerry AppWorld or download Prompt from VCast.

For corporate Limo packages email Julian at business "at sign" proxpro.com

If Productivity is Important the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is the Best Option

The media has given the BlackBerry 9800 a largely positive reception, but qualify their reviews saying that BB Torch 9800 only catches their rivals up but doesn't overtake them.  As all BlackBerry users know the main Achilles heel of BlackBerry devices has been the browsing experience, which with the rise of social media, has become vital.  Being a developer I have devices from all the major OEMs.  In my view BlackBerry has over taken their competition because BlackBerry is building on their existing formidable strengths: email, calendaring and the ability to get work done fast.  If productivity is what matters to you the BlackBerry Torch 9800 may be the best option.

I'm delighted to announce that Prompt the punctuality app is now available for BlackBerry Torch 9800 on BlackBerry App World and Verizon Vcast (Prompt is also available on nearly all BlackBerry Devices in The USA and all carriers except T-Mobile).

For people who can't afford to be late, ever! When there is unexpected traffic or construction on your next journey, Prompt - the punctuality app, tells you to leave early, so you are always punctual.  Working alongside your calendar, Prompt monitors the real-time traffic and predicts your travel time on the next journey, or daily commute, and automatically tells you it is time to leave

Click here to download Prompt from BlackBerry App World or visit Verizon VCast.

Proxpro Selected Finalist for IBM's SmartCamp (Boston)

Proxpro is delighted to have been selected as one of five finalists at IBM's SmartCamp on June 3rd, 2010. SmartCamp is a global program bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors who want to build a Smarter Planet. Proxpro feels very fortunate and privileged to receive this honor and attention. A Smarter Planet is one that can predict its future.

With insurance loss adjusters in short supply, technology helps them meet the surge in claimants

Insurance company loss adjusters have not been able to catch their breath following March's record breaking rainfall and flooding in the North East.  Rivers only now are cresting and claimants are desperate to start the huge clean up operation.  Professionally qualified loss adjusters are on the critical path before rebuilding and repair can begin, but they are in short supply.

Prompt (www.proxpro.com), the mobile GPS calendar's amazing predictive technology helps loss adjusters manage their backlog and make more site visits per day. 

Prompt is available for BlackBerry devices right now, try it FREE.

Click here to download award winning Prompt from Blackberry Appworld.

or click here to download from Proxpro's website.

Will Mobile GPS Calendars win the turn-by-turn navigation war for mobile?

Troy Wolverton, Silicon Valley.com wrote an excellent article on mobile GPS applications click here to read it.

I added a comment saying that PNDs woes will only get worse and mobile navigation companies still don't have the experience right.  Here is a copy of my argument.

I agree the mobile navigation services are very high quality, and the touch screen form factor of mobile now addresses the user interface advantages previously advocated in favor of personal navigation devices (PND).  The availability of contacts is handy, but a trick has been missed as mobile GPS navigators simply copy the PND functionality.  The feature that will tip the balance, irredeemably in my view, is Prompt, the mobile GPS calendar, click here to learn about Prompt.  A Mobile GPS Calendar monitors calendar appointments for an offsite meeting, kids sporting event or a trip to the airport, checks the route for real-time traffic and tells the driver precisely what route to take to avoid congestion and when it is time to leave.  As 80% of journeys are familiar there is no need for voice directions, furthermore 80% of the unfamiliar journeys the route is known too,  voice is an unnecessary distraction.  A GPS Calendar, integrated to voice directions is ideal with the added advantage the driver will always arrive on time.  The stand alone PND will continue to find it hard to compete.  GPS Calendars also use a fraction of the battery power.

Julian Bourne

Prompt - The Mobile GPS Calendar (patents pending)

www.proxpro.com

Arrive on time every time (integrated to voice directions meaning the device knows where you are going so you don't have to enter the address)

Proxpro Prompt is a "much needed service"

Many thanks to Andrew Seybold for his kind words following Proxpro Prompts victory at the Andrew Seybold Innovation rally, at the Spring Wireless University. 

"ProxPro Prompt Carrier Edition. I believe one of the main reasons ProxPro won is because we can all identify with the service it provides. The premise is to monitor your calendar, where it locates an offsite meeting or a trip to the airport. Then it monitors the traffic on the route and provides a "leave by time." This time is updated as you get ready to leave because the application is reviewing time/location-based weather and traffic incidents. Based on this information, it adjusts the route and travel time. Then it will give you voice directions as you travel. This is version only 1.0 of Prompt and it will get better-ProxPro understands the importance of meshing location, travel, and calendar appointments together to provide a much needed service."  Andrew Seybold (May 8, 2009)

Click here for more information.

Prompt v1.0 - what's new?

If you are punctual, you are reliable.  We, at Proxpro, understand how your professional reputation is on the line for every single appointment. 

 

Our objective for Prompt v1.0 Carrier Edition has been to provide you with unprecedented powers of PRESCIENCE, AWARENESS and CONTROL to arrive on time every time for every meeting.

 

Your time is your single most important resource.  Our design aim was to answer all your trip planning needs clearly, instantly, precisely and automatically with minimum battery drain.  Prompt saves you hours per week by:

-         Avoiding unnecessary traffic hold ups, even when you know when you know where you are going.

-         Eliminating the time-wasted arriving too early for your meeting, especially when the trip is not familiar

-         Combining weather, mapping and navigation information in one place without repeated destination retrieval and address input

-          Bypassing the need to check and re-check your assumptions for each journey.

 

 

Prompt v1.0 - New Live Demo

Double award-winning Prompt v1.0 is available in closed beta.  Here is a video outlining the new service.  We invite you to try the new service, if you are interested please visit www.proxpro.com