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Skyhook Wireless Receives
Web 2.0 Enabler Award for Its Wi-Fi Positioning System at the 2007 MITX Technology Awards
June 07, 2007
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skyhook Wireless, Inc. was awarded an Impact Award for Web 2.0 Enabler at the 2007 MITX Technology
Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative
technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these
advancements. Honorees for this year’s awards were announced last night in a ceremony at The Four Season’s Hotel
in Boston.
“We have been extremely impressed with the breadth and quality of the nominations this year.
They show incredible innovation across a variety of sectors and highlight the vitality of our local technology community,”
said Kiki Mills, executive director of MITX. “As we continue to enjoy a surge in technology investments in New England,
we are proud to showcase the contributions our community is making to global technology development.”
The
Web 2.0 Enabler award recognizes an innovative technology product or service from any Application Category that has made a
significant impact leveraging Web 2.0 by delivering or deploying the technology applications as a service and/or sharing and
distributing content. Skyhook Wireless’ Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) is the first wide area positioning system to
utilize Wi-Fi rather than GPS or cell-tower technologies to pinpoint location. This means that for any Wi-Fi enabled device
it takes seconds to produce an accurate reading; the more congested the city and whether indoors or out, the better it works;
it requires no additional hardware so it’s easy and inexpensive to deploy; and it can work with GPS to enhance its capabilities
and achieve near 100 percent availability of accurate positioning.
“Skyhook Wireless has been at the forefront
of levering the burgeoning Wi-Fi infrastructure and advanced Internet technologies to bring location-based services to the
masses,” said Jed Rice, vice president of market development, Skyhook Wireless. “WPS today serves as the Wi-Fi
positioning backbone of some of the world’s most recognizable services and devices, including AOL’s AIM, ReignCom’s
iriver W10 portable media player, and SiRF’s Multi-Mode Location Platform. We are pleased to be the recipient of this
prestigious award from MITX.”
More than 200 of the region’s top technology and business professionals
attended the MITX Awards ceremony. The event also included a keynote address by Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C), who was inducted into the MITX Innovation Hall of Fame last night, as well as a panel forum on “What’s
Next for the Device Web – Emerging User Experiences.” For a complete list of winners please visit www.mitxawards.org/technologyawards/finalists_winners.aspx?year=2007.
The 2007 MITX Technology Award sponsors were Adobe, Backbone Media, Inc., Lewis PR, Microsoft, Oracle and Technology
Review, Inc.
About Skyhook Wireless
Founded in 2003, Skyhook Wireless has pioneered the development
of the first-ever metro-area positioning system that leverages Wi-Fi rather than satellites or cell towers to deliver precise
location data supporting the growing market for location-based services. The Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) requires
no new hardware, works indoors and outdoors, provides an instant location and is more accurate than current technologies in
congested downtown areas. WPS serves over 70% of the US population and is expanding internationally. Skyhook Wireless is headquartered
in Boston, MA, and is privately held. Investors include Bain Capital and Intel Capital. For more information visit www.skyhookwireless.com,
send email to info@skyhookwireless.com or call 617-314-9802.
About MITX (www.mitx.org)
Established
in 1996, MITX—the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX: “my-techs”) is the leading trade
association focused squarely on the intersection of digital technology, marketing and media. Reaching more than 6,000 professionals
in New England, MITX is a dynamic and growing community for making meaningful business connections and exchanging innovative
ideas. Members of the MITX community take advantage of professional and business development and marketing opportunities,
including award recognition programs, sponsorships, speaking opportunities, networking and more than 60 events each year.
Source: Businesswire
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