Interview with GeoVector CEO, John Ellenby Wednesday 19 March 2008 GPS Business News interviews John Ellenby, CEO at GeoVector.  GeoVector Nominated for SPIFFY Award for Engineering Excellence in Telecom Thursday 7 February 2008 The Ground Breaker Award honors GeoVector for its impressive technology, and for pushing our industry forward through innovation and entrepreneurism.  GEOVECTOR ANNOUNCES NEW PATENT TO ENHANCE LOCAL SEARCH Monday 10 December 2007 US Patent 7301536 better enables mobile phones or other devices to display stored digital images which are linked to real-world objects or places.  BUSINESSWEEK: GEOVECTOR: WALK THIS WAY Friday 20 July 2007 This digital compass can tell you where you are, and where to walk to get a cup of coffee. It's available in Japan, but why not the U.S.?  GEOVECTOR AND CYBERMAP JAPAN ENHANCE THE WORLD’S FIRST POINTING BASED LOCAL SEARCH SOLUTION FOR MOBILE PHONES Thursday 31 May 2007 GeoVector Corporation, the leader in pointing based search solutions, and CyberMap Japan Corp., owner of mapping services leader Mapion, today launched Mapion Pointing Application 2.0, called Mapion Pointing Appli, for mobile phones in Japan. This upgrade transforms Mapion’s existing GeoVector pointing mobile search service into a fully commercial application available to over 2 million phones.  CNET News.com: LOST? TRY ASKING YOUR CELLPHONE Wednesday 01 November 2006 When it comes to cellphones, U.S. consumers might as well be working with stone knives and bearskins. The picture, though, is slowly beginning to change, said John Ellenby, CEO of GeoVector. The company, which has created software that serves up 3D maps and walking directions on phones, already sells that software to wireless carriers in Japan and it is now negotiating with U.S. carriers. The service may launch later this year in the United States.  GEOVECTOR TO ANNOUNCE 3D SEARCH TECHNOLOGY AT WIRELESS JAPAN 2006 Monday 17 July 2006 The world’s first “3D Search Technology” for mobile phones allows users to obtain information by selecting objects on a map displayed in 3D on the screen of their mobile phone. This 3D map, generated via GPS technology and a built-in compass, creates an intuitive means for the user to interact with the world around them.  Wall Street Journal: DREAMS OF A TRULY MOBILE WEB Monday 3 July 2006 It's a longstanding maxim of this column that the future generally doesn't arrive with a lot of flash and noise -- instead, it sneaks up on you. One day you notice you're reading your news online, banking via PC and downloading stuff from eMusic, and try to remember the last time you flipped through the physical newspaper, wrote a paper check or bought a CD. But not always.  New York Times: WITH A CELLPHONE AS MY GUIDE Wednesday 28 June 2006 If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a historical monument, and with the press of a button the phone will display information from the Internet describing the object you are looking at.  GEOVECTOR ANNOUNCES NEW PATENT FOR INNOVATIVE LOCAL SEARCH SOLUTION USING WIRELESS PHONES Monday 1 May 2006 New Patent allows users to search the internet or query databases merely by pointing a wireless phone or other mobile device at a location or object.  GEOVECTOR AND NEC TEAM UP TO DELIVER MOBILE SEARCH SOLUTIONS TO JAPAN'S MOBILE APPLICATION MARKET Thursday 16 February 2006 This new partnership enables Japanese mobile content providers to offer information to end users who simply point their mobile phones at a building, retailer, restaurant, hotel or billboard advertisement.  GEOVECTOR AND CYBERMAP JAPAN (MAPION) DELIVER THE WORLD’S FIRST POINTING BASED SOLUTIONS FOR MOBILE PHONES Thursday 26 January 2006 With Mapion Local Search, users can now walk down the street anywhere in Japan and point at over 700,000 objects such as buildings, shops, restaurants, banks, historical sites and instantly retrieve information on what they are looking at or find what they are looking for just by pointing their phone.  GEOVECTOR OPENS NEW OFFICE IN JAPAN Thursday 26 January 2006 Today GeoVector announced the opening of their office in Japan to meet the needs of Mobile Carriers, Application Developers and Network Service Providers in Japan.  Provider of 3-D Search Engine Application ‘Clicks on Japan’ with JETRO November 2005 The decision to enter the Japanese market was an easy one for GeoVector to develop its cell phone based technology.  A New Orientation for GPS 15 November 2005 Since I started writing about technology (which, if you count my early stabs at science fiction as a child, would be about 1972), I've been waiting for one particular product to come out: The handheld gizmo that I can use while walking around to direct me to where I want to go: the closest bus station, the nearest good Chinese restaurant.  Destination Known Monday 27 September 2004 Ever wish you could use your cell phone as a navigator? That is, point it in the direction you're walking and have it guide you to the nearest Starbucks, or in an emergency, the closest hospital.  Doom But Not Gloom On City Streets Monday 23 June 2003 Japanese mobile phone users could be taking to the streets early next year to play shoot-it-up computer game Doom - thanks to technology developed in New Zealand.  Mobile Miracles May 2003 Once the Next Big Thing, mobility is almost a matter of course today. But, beyond the lowly PDA and ubiquitous cell phone, these exciting new apps stretch the far, bright horizons of Cool.  Showcase Success Points the Way May 2003 Actual Spectator, developed to combine pointing, mobile technology and enhanced America's Cup race coverage.  AUT - GV Leave the Park and Move to the City April 2003 Geovector completes its initial product development and leaves the Technology Park to begin marketing its product.  GIS Monitor - NEW AND CREATIVE USES OF GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY January 2003 Your cell phone may be able to determine its location, but at this point it can't determine which direction it faces. Enter GeoVector.  Tone #23 - Point and shoot takes on new meaning January / February 2003 San Francisco's GeoVector has been working in New Zealand with Microsoft, HP and Vodafone to develop and fine-tune pointing application technology for the world market.  NZ Herald Innovators - Lots more info, that's the point 30 December 2002 San Francisco-based company is developing research labs in Auckland and Christchurch.  Mobile technology self-locates in a new direction 20 December 2002 A new technology under development in New Zealand looks likely to appear in many mobile devices over the not too distant future.  Microsoft Case Study - GeoVector September 2002 Welcome to New Zealand - Pocket PC Application Demonstrates the Power of the .NET Compact Framework when combined with GPS and Heading Sensors.  InfoTech Article - Mobile pioneer to invest $3m in NZ 08 July 2002 Mobile pioneer to invest $3m in NZ - Privately-owned Californian technologydeveloper GeoVector expects to spend $3 million in the coming year on two New Zealand research facilities. 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