deCarta Announces Launch of Mobile Search Application
supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS)
industry, today announced the launch of deCarta Mobile Search, a brand-able
mobile local search alternative to traditional Internet search engines,
designed specifically for mobile operators, directory service providers, and
handset manufacturers.
Similar to traditional search engines, deCarta Mobile Search provides
maps, address finding, routing, directions, and freeform text search of local
content from leading content providers. Examples include: restaurant reviews,
weather, traffic, movies, events, news, yellow pages, and more. However,
several features make deCarta Mobile Search a more compelling alternative for
mobile operators, directory providers, and handset makers, including:
- The ability to add content and manage the way content is presented to
users.
- Powerful spatial search algorithms that allow mobile users to find more
relevant points of interest than the traditional search providers
- Look and Feel of a native application with the "write once, run
anywhere" flexibility and rapid deployment of JavaScript.
deCarta Mobile Search is a full-featured and customizable application
developed in JavaScript(R) to run inside W3C compliant widget runtime
frameworks across a wide variety of handset brands, models, and operating
systems. The deCarta Mobile Search widget connects to deCarta’s powerful LBS
servers to provide a full mobile search experience that can be customized and
differentiated with any form of geo-referenced content.
deCarta Mobile Search lets mobile operators, directory service providers,
and handset makers take control of, and enhance, their user’s mobile search
experience, local content, and business model.
deCarta’s first major customer for deCarta Mobile Search is T-Mobile, a
division of Deutsche Telekom AG. T-Mobile will roll out deCarta Mobile Search
in Q4, 2009 according to the local needs of each market. Initially launching
in the UK,
will follow in the future.
About deCarta
deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform that has enabled some
of the industry’s most successful LBS applications such as those deployed by
Verizon, Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile, Multimap and Hotels.com. The
company’s technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications in the mobile,
personal navigation, connected navigation, enterprise and Internet markets
where scalability, speed and reliability are vital. deCarta’s solutions are
preferred by application developers and service providers who seek to
leverage deCarta’s unique core strengths of server-side and wireless LBS
expertise, and also want the flexibility to customize map styles and
self-brand. Some of deCarta’s customers and technology partners include
Appello, ATX, AutoTrader.co.uk, Gearworks, Hotels.com, INRIX, Local Matters,
loopt, Maps.com, Motorola, Multimap, NAVTEQ, Networks In Motion,
TeleNav, WHERE. deCarta is privately held, headquartered in
California
http://www.decarta.com.
SOURCE deCarta