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First launched in 2003, the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is focused on driving the development and visibility of innovative location-based solutions (LBS) for wireless devices. The Global LBS Challenge has become the premier event in the wireless industry and a global symbol of LBS innovation and opportunity. From business applications to sports, travel and security, integrating the accuracy and richness of NAVTEQ digital map data facilitates the discovery of the next wave of LBS using dynamic positioning technology.

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Looking to jump-start your idea for that next million-dollar app? Browse our new Connections Homepage and get the pulse of the marketplace. Meet our customers, place or answer a classified ad, check out products, coverage, market research and more. Connections is a program exclusive to NAVTEQ customers like GARMIN, deCarta, NIM, Skobbler and others who want to engage with our developer community – you! Each company has its own page that lists their products and services that use NAVTEQ® map data and content.

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Sony Ericsson Developer World

Sony Ericsson Developer World is a global support program and web portal totally dedicated to helping professional wireless developers achieve business success by providing a steady flow of up-to-date technical information about Sony Ericsson mobile phones, for example phone specifications, development documents and tools, discussion forum and wiki communities, code examples, news articles and testing resources.

Sony Ericsson Developer World guides developers through the development process in four steps – Think it, Make it, Test it, Sell it -thereby ensuring a constant stream of fun, useful and innovative content and applications for Sony Ericsson phones.

Visit the website at www.SonyEricsson.com/developer

Sony Ericsson is a co-sponsor of the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge and Sony Ericsson Developer World is providing qualifying contestants with the phones and software tools required to enable Java™ ME and Project Capuchin application creation.

Project Capuchin

Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin technology is a Java™ ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe® Flash Lite™ programming environments. This API makes it possible to use Flash Lite as the front end and Java ME as the back end of applications, meaning that Flash tools can be used for UI design while still having access to all the phone services available to Java ME.

Sony Ericsson Developer World offers Project Capuchin tools, documents and getting started tutorials here.

The first phone to support the Project Capuchin API is the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot™. Read more here.

Sony Ericsson phones featuring GPS and aGPS

Many Sony Ericsson phone series feature GPS and aGPS, and support the Location API (JSR 179), including:

C702 Cyber-shot™ phone
W760 Walkman™ phone
XPERIA™ X1 phone
Z780 web-enabled phone

Sony Ericsson Developer World presents phone specification data in a searchable configuration allowing you to identify which Sony Ericsson phones support a large range of features and formats. If you already know which phone model you want to view, a detailed phone overview page is available from the main gallery page here.

About Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson is a top global industry player with sales of over 100 million phones in 2007. Diversity is one of the core strengths of the company, with operations in over 80 countries including manufacturing in China and R&D sites in China, Europe, India, Japan and North America. Sony Ericsson was established as a 50:50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in October 2001, with global corporate functions located in London.