Xohm LBS Apps from uLocate, Yelp, Eventful, NAVTEQ, AccuWeather & Google

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on August 28, 2008 12:51 PM

Sprint's XOHM WiMAX mobile broadband customers can have information customized for their locations and personalized to their needs with new Sprint ecosystem agreements for location based services.

Unique location and personalization capabilities will customize information for the user at home, at work or places in between. The location-enabled mobile experience will span a range of devices such as laptops, mobile Internet devices, media players, cameras and car navigation. XOHM is enabling web services application programming interfaces (APIs) so a broad collection of service developers and device partners can use location to offer increased utility for XOHM members.

Location-based content from leading brands include:

uLocate Communications,the primary partner in building XOHM's location enabled mobile experience, is providing its WHERE platform and leading friend finding application Buddy Beacon to connect XOHM customers with their favorite people, places and things. Through WHERE, XOHM users will have access to local information including restaurant reviews, news, events, weather and much more. Select launch partners on the WHERE platform include Yelp, Eventful, Topix, NAVTEQ and Accuweather.

Yelp provides local business reviews, provides relevant user reviews and ratings for anything local, from restaurants to doctors and more. The reviews can be searched and sorted by category or shown in a map view, with access to Yelp.com for details on any of the three million local reviews.

Eventful Inc. will provide users with listings of local events displayed in a map view. Customers can select sub-categories of interest, search for events and click through to Eventful.com to get more event information and purchase tickets.

NAVTEQ. will offer XOHM customers NAVTEQ Trafficreal-time local traffic and commuter updates with links to the Traffic.com Web site for additional detailed construction, incident and drive time information.

AccuWeather, will provide three-day forecasts based on users' current locations. An easy link to AccuWeather.com mobile Web site gives more forecast details,radar/satellite images, and more.

Google will contribute industry-leading Local Search capability along with additional features and functionality from Google Maps.

Openwave Systems ill provide the location platform that enables XOHM partners to use location to provide valuable services.

Autodesk will provide a standards-based interface and geospatial services, such as addresses, ZIP code and city/state information, to enhance location within the XOHM network.