LBS Industry
Leaders select Prompt
- the next generation Personal Information Management
(PIM) Tool
Enterprise- Best
Solution.
Left to Right: Diosdado P. Banatao, Executive Chairman, SiRF; Julian Bourne, CEO & Founder, Proxpro Inc.; Kanwar Chadha, Founder & VP Marketing, SiRF
Weston, MA - September 17, 2008: Proxpro, the advanced GPS solutions company,
today announced that its new product Prompt, a service that makes sure people
are never late, won the People’s Choice Award for the enterprise category at
the recent SiRFecosystem’s Location 2.0 Summit. Prompt was chosen by the popular vote of top
location-based services leaders because of its “superior use of the power of
location to enhance the daily lives of individuals, enterprises and
communities, as well as its level of innovation, impact on the market, features
and benefits to end users”.
Prompt is a “push” technology
that optimizes navigation and traffic information based on a personal
calendar. Prompt compares the user’s
current location to the time and location of their next appointment, consults
real-time and predicted traffic, displays the fastest route and tells people
exactly when to leave to get to their next appointment on time.
“Even the best planners can be caught by traffic
or construction on their route and the worry of being late for a flight or an
important meeting is very uncomfortable," said Marc Kleinmaier, LBS
thought-leader and a Location 2.0 Summit attendee, "Prompt is amazing
because it's automatic, removes all the guess work in trip planning and ensures
an on-time arrival!”
Special settings also allow users to effortlessly
monitor their daily commute to work in the morning and return drive home again
in the evenings.
“Prompt is very useful because it cuts the daily hassle of monitoring the
traffic for you before I go to work or on my way home,” said Jerry Mortel,
Sales, Comcast, “ It’s simple by just typing in your daily commute address at
setup and it does the rest for you. It
tells me how long I have before I leave for work so I can avoid being late and
because of that I know if I have time to stop for gas or grab a bite to eat. I use Prompt daily.”
“I believe that GPS navigation will be integrated to the calendar, providing
“when to leave” information so I make my appointment on time.” Jeremy Toeman, LiveDigitally. “I completely expect the category to
standardize around such services in the next few years.”
Julian Bourne presenting Prompt at the Location 2.0 Summit, Andrew Seybold (left) about to call "time up."
“Receiving this award is a tremendous
accomplishment for us,” said Julian Bourne, CEO and Founder, Proxpro Inc. “It brings us one step closer to our aim to bring
“when to leave” alerts to everyone’s calendar and GPS navigation experience.”
“SiRFecosystem’s Location 2.0 Summit is quickly developing a
reputation as one of the foremost strategic forums for the key decision makers
of the LBS industry, and the People’s Choice award winners reflect their
judgment on how well they demonstrated the benefits of using the power of
location to enhance the daily lives of individuals, enterprises and
communities,” said Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for
SiRF. “We congratulate Proxpro for being
chosen by these top global location industry executives for the
Enterprise
category, and
look forward to the unique contribution they will make to the evolution of the
LBS industry.”
Proxpro Prompt (beta) is
available free of charge for BlackBerry devices with activated GPS in
North America
, at www.proxpro.com .
About Proxpro
Proxpro provides advanced software solutions for the mobile
workforce management and location-based services industries. The company’s
situation aware products present just-in-time information to empower
professionals and mobile teams to make better decisions, reduce costs and
improve customer service. Founded in
2005, the company is headquartered in Weston, MA
About SiRF
SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. develops and markets location
platforms based on semiconductor and software products that are designed to
enable location-awareness utilizing GPS and other location technologies,
enhanced by wireless connectivity and multimedia capabilities for high-volume
mobile consumer devices and commercial applications. SiRF’s technology has been integrated into a
wide range of mobile consumer devices such as automobile navigation systems,
portable navigation devices (PNDs), mobile phones, mobile computers, GPS-based
peripherals and handheld GPS devices, and into commercial applications such as
location servers, asset tracking devices and fleet management systems. SiRF markets and sells its products in four
target platforms: wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones; automotive
electronics systems, including navigation and telematics systems; consumer
electronics products such as recreational GPS handhelds, mobile gaming
machines, digital cameras and wearable devices; and mobile computing systems,
including personal digital assistants, notebook computers, universal mobile
personal computers (UMPCs) and mobile internet devices. Founded in 1995, SiRF is headquartered in
San Jose
,
California
,
and has sales offices, design centers and research facilities around the
world. The company trades on the NASDAQ
Stock Exchange under the symbol SIRF.
Additional information about SiRF and its location technology solutions
can be found at www.sirf.com.
