San Jose, CA March 27, 2008 -- Zoospi.com with its unique mobile phone application, Zoospi Mobile (ZooM), has been selected as one of 15 semi-finalists in the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. The grand prize winners and runners-up will be announced at CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas on April 2, 2008.
According to NAVTEQ, a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information, "This global program challenges application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology."
Zoospi.com is the first fully interactive web-based LBS tool that uses an individualized Spatial Calendar (SM) and a public Spatial Search Engine (SM) to connect people with the on-site services they need, when they need them. It offers a real-time map of mobile service professionals on location and provides instant booking capabilities between businesses and customers.
Zoospi, Inc. president Chuck Jamshidi says, "We are excited to be a 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge semi-finalist. Zoospi.com is a culmination of two years of development and was designed after studying what the well-financed service businesses do to get jobs, dispatch crews, create efficient routes, manage their assets in the field, and match the skills of each member of their crew to their customers' requirements."
"With Zoospi, we are providing the same toolset to all service professionals. This way, each independent service provider can work as efficiently as possible, get localized jobs, minimize drive time and maximize cash flow," Jamshidi continues.
Zoospi Mobile (ZooM) puts the features of Zoospi.com in the palm of the hands of service professionals. It tracks their location, receives and responds to their booking requests and enables them to invoice their customers on the fly. It also provides detailed maps and directions to job sites.
Further expanding on its versatility, ZooM will soon be available as an application on WHERE, a service of uLocate Communications, providing a single point of access to the world's most comprehensive library of location-based content.
For further information about Zoospi.com or ZooM, please visit http://www.Zoospi.com. To arrange an interview with Chuck Jamshidi, call (502) 410-1919 or email cfox @ foxandpartners.com.
ZooM Zoospi.com Chosen as SemiFinalist in 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Programming Challenge


