CAMBRIDGE, England & SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- CSR plc (LSE: CSR) (NASDAQ: CSRE), together with the Telecom Council, today announced that Locaid Technologies, Inc. was the winner of the popular FastPitch competition – chosen from the event’s RapidFire participants – at last week’s 6^th annual Locations & Beyond Summit 2012. Locaid®, a Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) company, was chosen by Summit attendees from among six participant companies who presented innovative new location-aware offerings, including Urban Airship, InvisiTrack, Pole Star USA, Mosaik Solutions, and Alohar Mobile.

“This was the largest Summit to date, with the highest quality attendees – over two hundred – including many global carriers”

The RapidFire presentations involved five-minute pitches – or FastPitches – from companies showcasing novel and creative use-cases of location technology. The Summit audience chooses the winner through a text message-based voting system. In addition, this year’s Summit included a product showcase in which companies including RxNetworks, Nextnav, and Fixmo demonstrated their products to the elite audience.

“This was the largest Summit to date, with the highest quality attendees – over two hundred – including many global carriers,” according to Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR. “Two topics of particular interest at the Summit this year were privacy and delivery options for location-based services. Locaid stands at the nexus of the two, protecting the privacy and security of customers while facilitating integration of location into myriad applications such as fraud prevention, proximity marketing, and asset tracking and monitoring. The company’s unique ‘Location as a Service’ – or LaaS – platform will no doubt help accelerate the fruition of beneficial new mobile location-based services of all kinds.”

About the FastPitch Winner

Locaid simplifies and manages the complex challenge of locating over 350 million mobile devices for location-based services (LBS). Locaid operates the world's largest and most secure mobile location platform and allows mobile developers to locate their customers for enterprise authentication, fraud management, and hyper-local marketing, all through a single, privacy protected API. Locaid is the only mobile location gateway connected to the largest Tier One carriers and partners in the Americas including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, TelCel, TELUS, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. With multiple offices across North America, Locaid also offers a portfolio of location-enablement services including geo-fencing, geo-coding, map appends, and location analytics. For more information, visit www.loc-aid.com

About CSR

CSR is a global provider of innovative silicon and software solutions for the location-aware, media-rich, cloud-connected world. Our platforms are optimised for the automotive navigation and infotainment, digital cameras and imaging, connected home infotainment and wireless audio markets. We provide solutions to complex problems in the audio-visual, connectivity and location technology domains across a broad range of markets, with a technology portfolio that includes GPS/GNSS systems, Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, FM, NFC, aptX® and CVC™ audio codecs, JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, PDL printing, microcontrollers, DSPs and broadband receivers. CSR's technology solutions and market platforms enable its customers to deliver a superior user experience and are adopted by leaders in the auto, computer, home and mobile markets. More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with CSR on our technical blog or CSR people blog, YouTube, Facebook or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CSR_plc