Kivera Location Server Powers New BeVocal Business Finder; Kivera, Inc. Announces Partnership with BeVocal.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 Kivera, a leading private label supplier of location services See mobile positioning. for web, wireless, and telematics applications today announced that it is powering BeVocal's new Business Finder. With BeVocal's Business Finder, people across the nation can locate nearby businesses and services by dialing 1-800-4BVOCAL, asking for "Business Finder" and then speaking a brand name or category into the phone. For example, a caller looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the closest Barnes & Noble bookstore can say "Barnes & Noble." BeVocal will provide a listing of the nearest store locations, and give the user the option to get details about store hours and promotions. Callers who are uncertain about brand can select a business category to hear a list of choices. Business Finder includes a wide variety of the most popular brands for mobile consumers including Starbucks, Safeway, TGI TGI Tribunal de Grande Instance TGI Target Group Index TGI Thank God It's Friday (US restaurant chain) TGI Tracheal Gas Insufflation TGI Tumor Growth Inhibition TGI Trato Gastrointestinal (Portugese) Friday's, Marriott, Budget, Wal-Mart, Toys'R'Us, Nordstrom, Kinko's, all major gas stations, banks, car rental companies, and more. "It's exciting for us to count BeVocal as a Kivera customer," said Clay Collier, Kivera's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "BeVocal has taken an early lead in the voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc. market, and their hard work and great design really highlights the quality and flexibility of Kivera's location services software." BeVocal uses Kivera technology to spatially process the Geographic Data Geographic data is about much more than electronic pictures of maps. The geographic data that describes our world allows for city planning, flood prediction and relief, emergency service routing, environmental assessments, wind pattern monitoring and many other applications. Technology (GDT GDT Global Descriptor Table GDT Geographic Data Technology Inc. GDT Gas Discharge Tube (energy, electrotechinical and electronics) GDT Getting Things Done GDT Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing GDT Ground Data Terminal ) comprehensive database of U.S. addresses and to power BeVocal's proprietary voice applications. Kivera also supplies BeVocal with spatially searchable Yellow Page listings compiled using data from infoUSA.com, the leading Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider of business listings information on the Internet. BeVocal hosts the Kivera location servers on its own hardware, which assures optimal control over latency and uptime. "It's amazing that we did this in 45 days, from negotiating to spec'ing the product to getting it out there in the market. There was a lot of cross-company team work that had to happen in order to make that possible," said Vipul Vyas, BeVocal's business development manager. "We're looking at Kivera as a long-term partner because of the richness of their offering and their knowledge of the spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. market," he continued. "As a young company, they were able to be flexible and respond to what we needed. Working together, the end result was exactly what we had envisioned at the outset." About BeVocal BeVocal is an award-winning provider of voice infrastructure software, applications and services that extend the power of every phone. BeVocal is the first and only company to create voice portal applications that are location-relevant, device-independent, highly-scalable and extensible via an open development platform. Telecom carriers, enterprises and Internet companies rely on BeVocal's patent-pending VocalBoost(TM) technology and comprehensive hosting services to offer voice-enabled applications to consumers and businesses. Millions of callers nationwide can access voice-enabled driving directions, business locations, travel information, traffic, weather, stock quotes, news and sports through private-label solutions that are Powered By BeVocal(TM). BeVocal's innovative 1-800-4BVOCAL service has been honored with the "Best of Show - Voice Technology" Award by Digital Living Room and the "Investor's Choice" and "People's Choice" Awards by Upside Event's Showcase. The company has raised $46.2 million in venture capital funding from Mayfield Fund, US Venture Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Trans Cosmos USA. For additional information about BeVocal, call 408/748-8700 or visit www.bevocal.com. About Kivera Kivera provides private-label location server software for partners and customers that want to make their own products and services location aware. Kivera's Location Server powers proximity searches (e.g. find me a Chinese restaurant within 2 miles of my location) and then delivers the results with maps and/or driving directions for web, wireless, and telematics applications. Founded in 1997 and based in downtown Oakland, CA, Kivera powers leading consumer voice portals, in-vehicle applications, and web-based travel services. Kivera is one of a small group of companies that offer location services, including MapQuest (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), Vicinity (Nasdaq:VCNT), and MapInfo (Nasdaq:MAPS). Key customers include the American Automobile Association American Automobile Association (AAA), federation of American automobile clubs, est. 1902. AAA provides a number of benefits to its members, including emergency road service; national and international travel assistance, e.g. , DENSO, and BeVocal. For more information visit www.kivera.com. |
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