PARIS—Online location-centric application provider Maporama launched its i-mode platform, which allows Maporama customers to integrate i-mode based location-centric solutions into their Internet services.
“Location-centric solutions are at the strategic core of all 2.5G actors and can be found in a number of applications ranging from localization services and geomarketing to customer service applications,” said Laurent Vermot-Gauchy, Maporama’s chief executive officer. “Maporama is proud to announce the availability of the first non-Japanese i-mode location-centric solution that can be implemented in these applications as easily as on any other platform.”