In the last couple of months we have partnered up with two companies. One is Celebros and the other Cityneo.

Celebros can provide our clients with search and navigation solutions. They are focused on the e-commerce sector at the moment though this is mostly a business choice rather than a limitation of the underlying technology. We met them at a project while working for T-Online, Germany and immediately saw the power of their search engine. It's great at understanding users queries. It does that by creating "concepts" of the query to actually get close to an actual (human) comprehension. For refinement it allows you to step through a selection of further categories such as pricing range, browse categories and alike. The way they can make sense of low-quality data is quite impressive. For a hint at what they offer, also see their brochures.

Cityneo is a mapping service solution provider. They have been operating for quite some years in the field, way before anyone ever heard of Google Maps. Once specialized on the content delivery to mobile phones, they have built a platform to do the same on the web and any device connected to the net. We hooked up with them through our connection to Minifizz whom we've got to know in Brussels and through Ryze. They have recently added Minifizz and TXMPlayer to their portfolio, thereby expanding into new product categories. What amazed me the most personally was that they are full of creative ideas and solutions. The best example in my opinion is "Geo Monsters" which is a multiplayer RPG where the games virtual map overlaps with the actual world around you. Wired had a post on such a game back in 2002 and if I'm not mistaken Cityneo launched this before anyone else did.

We are hoping to help both of them to expand into the Australian market. These are long-term partnerships for us as they complement nicely our own range of services and we are happy and proud to be supportive of them in any way we can.