MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 13, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SPOT LLC, the pioneer behind the award-winning SPOT Satellite Messenger(tm), today announced its integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle further enhancing the mainstream consumer appeal for the SPOT Satellite Messenger. Fire Eagle is an open platform that helps users take their location to the web by sharing their location information with other sites and services online while keeping full control over their data and privacy. The Fire Eagle integration specifically enables SPOT Satellite Messenger users the ability to publish their adventure geotags or location coordinates to the web, sharing their location with their favorite services and increasingly popular social networking sites to get a whole new range of location-based features.
Yahoo! Inc. of Sunnyvale, CA is the world's largest global online network of integrated services and is one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. As a leading Internet brand the company has pioneered the way people use the web to communicate with each other and share their information.
SPOT, the world's first satellite messenger, sends the users' GPS location coordinates and custom messages to co-workers, family and friends or emergency responders over a satellite communications network from virtually anywhere around the globe - even the most remote places - independent of cell phone coverage.
"SPOT's global coverage makes it an ideal Fire Eagle updater, giving users the ability to easily share their location from almost anywhere on the planet," said Tom Coates, Head of Product at Yahoo Brickhouse.
While SPOT users can already save their GPS location data in CSV, GPX and KML easily, and share their locations in real time over the SPOT Shared pages, the integration with Fire Eagle enables SPOT Satellite Messenger users for the first time to be in control of how to share and publish their adventure location geotags to their favorite services on the web.
"The integration of Yahoo! Fire Eagle and the SPOT Satellite Messenger turns web potential into reality, allowing SPOT users for the first time to make the web literally respond to their location," said Thomas Colby, Chief Operating Officer of SPOT LLC.'s parent company, Globalstar Inc. Mr. Colby added, "This integration helps broaden SPOT's utility by making it even easier for our users to share information and their adventures over the web. As SPOT has delivered more than 2.5 million satellite message transmissions, information sharing is core to our subscribers. We are committed to the Yahoo! Fire Eagle platform and look forward to providing our users instant integration with their favorite web services."
SPOT users with a free Yahoo! Fire Eagle account can immediately start sharing their adventure geotags. SPOT users can sign up for a free account by visiting www.findmespot.com/fireeagle.
SPOT Satellite Messenger, weighing just over seven ounces and sold at U.S. $169.95 SRP, enables users to send their location and message to friends, family, or emergency responders, and to visually track the location of the SPOT Satellite Messenger through four simple functions:
1. Alert 9-1-1 notifies the emergency response center of your
GPS location
2. Ask for Help sends a request for help to friends and family
3. Check In lets contacts know where you are and that you are OK
4. Track Progress sends and saves your location and allows
contacts to track your progress using Google(tm) maps
The SPOT Satellite Messenger uses 100% satellite technology and has virtually complete worldwide coverage including all of the continental United States coverage throughout Alaska plus the surrounding Pacific and Arctic maritime regions, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia, portions of South America, Northern Africa and Northeastern Asia, and thousands of square miles of offshore waters. SPOT Satellite Messenger is available at more than 5,000 points-of-sale including retailers and dealers in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Continental Europe and Mexico.
For more information about Fire Eagle visit the Yahoo! Fire Eagle Website at http://fireeagle.yahoo.net.
About SPOT LLC.
The SPOT Satellite Messenger, the world's first satellite messenger, uses both the GPS satellite network to determine a customer's location and the SPOT network to transmit that information to friends, family or an emergency service center. SPOT LLC., a subsidiary of Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), provides lifesaving communications technology that allows users to communicate from remote locations around the globe. Thanks to this affordable, cutting-edge personal safety device, the company offers people peace of mind by allowing customers to notify friends and family of their location and status, and to send for emergency assistance in time of need, completely independent of cellular phone or wireless coverage. For more information on how SPOT LLC. is helping users live to tell about it(SM) - from disaster preparedness to outdoor adventure purposes - visit www.findmespot.com.
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