Nokia
At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.
OnStar
OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, is the leading provider of connected safety and security solutions, value-added mobility services and advanced information technology. Currently available on more than 40 MY 2011 GM models, OnStar soon will be available for installation on most other vehicles already on the road through local electronics retailers, including Best Buy. OnStar safely connects its more than six million subscribers, in the U.S., Canada and China, in ways never thought possible. OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown is a recipient of the 2010 Edison Award for Best New Product in the technology category. Visit www.onstar.com for more information.
Esri
Esri is the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) and mapping software. Esri offers a variety of APIs, standards, tools, and online services to integrate mapping and GIS into multiple platforms. For four decades, Esri has been helping people make better decisions through data management, mapping, and analysis of geographic information.
AT&T Interactive
AT&T; Interactive is a leader in creating local search products that encourage consumers to discover and engage with local businesses across the YP Local Ad Network. The network helps advertisers and publishers grow their business by distributing ads on YP.com, YPmobile, and other top properties spanning Web, mobile and IPTV.
Google
Google Maps and Earth offer powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information in the context of satellite imagery, street level imagery, and user-contributed content. There have been over 700 million unique downloads of Google Earth since the product's launch at Where 2.0 in June, 2005. Google Earth can be downloaded for free at http://earth.google.com/. Google Maps is the most popular online mapping site in the U.S. and worldwide, and can be accessed at http://maps.google.com.
Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace® Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
AND Automotive Navigation Data
AND Automotive Navigation Data is provider of digital maps for navigation and location-based services. AND is the only independent company in the global mapping market. The company focuses on the further development of its advanced digital maps to position itself even more effectively in the market.
C3 Technologies
C3 Technologies offers photo-realistic 3D models of the world for search,
navigation and GIS. A spinout of the aerospace and defense company Saab
AB, C3 is redefining mapping by applying previously classified image
processing technology to the development of 3D maps as a platform for
social and commercial applications.
Ditto
Ditto makes it easy to share out what you're up to, and get recommendations about restaurants, movies and things to do. All this can be done in just a couple of taps without typing.
Ditto resembles checkins -- but it is much more useful because it is about sharing your intent to do something instead of what you've already done.
We're working hard to build a simple, fun and useful app that our users love. Ditto shines out because it is built from the ground up to help people help each other, by making simple touch-based gestures.
Download the app to your iPhone, and start Dittoing! App Store link: http://bit.ly/dittoapp
Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects especially around the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.
Factual
Factual, Inc. is an open data platform for application developers that leverages large scale aggregation and community exchange. For example, you will find datasets for millions of U.S. and International local businesses and points of interest, as well as datasets on entertainment, education, and health.
MapQuest
As a top 20 website, MapQuest helps more than 40MM people per month, providing tools for internet and mobile users, developers, and businesses. Long known as a leader for maps and directions, the new MapQuest is all about the journey; helping people explore where to go, how to get there, and what to do along the way.
Microsoft Corporation
Bing™ Maps (previously Microsoft Virtual Earth®) is a cloud-based geospatial mapping service that gives developers a rich and complete toolset for layering location-relevant data on top of map imagery. With rich imagery and quality geospatial data Bing Maps is being used around the globe to deliver data-visualization and mapping solutions.
NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ Network For Developers is a web portal, providing this global community of developers and partners with everything needed to build, showcase and launch the most innovative location-enabled solutions. Join NN4D and get free sample map data, mapping APIs, content, technical resources, access to partners' platforms-tools, and business development opportunities.
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