Noida, Uttar Pradesh -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/09/2010 -- TechAhead™ Software today announced an initiative to create an open, royalty-free API for creating city guides thus enabling all sorts of social applications to be created which are based on destinations in the city.

CityAPI will empower developers to build far-reaching applications which can be integrated with any existing / new website as well as mobile handsets thus bringing the power to find important destinations within the reach of ubiquitous mobile handset.

This royalty-free standard will be developed by TechAhead Software with a target of a first public release with POC (Proof of Concept) for Delhi, capital of India on 20th Sep, 2010 at Open Source India (OSI) Day conference at Chennai (India) where more than 3000 open networkers are expected to attend the event. Find more details at: http://osidays.com/schedule.

Any interested organization is welcome to join TechAhead Software to make technical contributions, fund the initiative, influence the direction of the specification and gain early access to draft specifications before public release. TechAhead deliberated for quite some time on which platform to first expose its open CityAPI and finally decided on exposing it on iPhone due to TechAhead’s inherent capabilities in iPhone Application Development having developed more than 75 mobile apps on iPhone / iPad platform.

“CityAPI will help unleash the opportunity for developers around the world to create useful city guides for billions of people even from the remotest of the region which is very empowering,” says Saurabh Singh – Chief Strategist and Co-Founder, TechAhead Software. Our vision is that the API we are unveiling will empower users across the world using any phone model."

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