IAC today announced the availability of Ask Mobile GPS, a GPS-enabled lifestyle application featuring the best of Ask.com, Citysearch, and Evite.com, along with instant location finder and turn-by-turn navigation powered by the Global Positioning System. The service -- the first ever to combine local content, social networking and GPS navigation -- is now available for download at gps.ask.com.

Ask Mobile GPS is the latest offering from the award-winning Ask Mobile family. The program uses a widget interface that makes navigation fast and fun. Unique features include:

• Browse Citysearch's millions of listings to find restaurants, bars, ATMs, spas, boutiques -- just about anything you want. Search by specific business name (i.e. Starbucks) or by key word (i.e. coffee). GPS technology automatically finds matches nearby. Citysearch instantly serves up address, phone number, business hours, parking information, editorial reviews and ratings, and user reviews.
• View your Evite invitations, including guest lists and locations. Keep up to date with any changes in location and time, view the latest guest list, and automatically navigate to your events.

• Navigate around town with turn-by-turn driving directions and even walking directions powered by GPS navigation. With voice prompts leading the way, you can keep your eyes on the road. 
• Stay connected with friends. Turn your address book into a social network. Let the GPS technology pinpoint your location so you can broadcast it (with a note, if you want) to anyone in your contact list. Friends receive a text message with a link to a map showing your location. Use one of the auto-suggested businesses nearby to pick the perfect meet-up spot.
• Save time by typing less. Ask Mobile GPS was built with the philosophy of minimizing key strokes in every way possible.
• GPS technology automatically finds nearby locations and businesses without having to enter in your location
• Categories and specific businesses are automatically suggested when searching for local business listings
• Nearby cities are suggested when entering your location
• Nearby airports are suggested when searching airports
• Save Addresses and Directions so they're right there when you need them again. No need to type them again.

"With Ask Mobile GPS, your cell phone is like the remote control for your life. With the bundling of GPS with our lifestyle brands, your phone knows exactly where you are, so there's far less hunt-and-peck entering of information on the keypad when you're out and about," said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com. "We've adapted our brands specifically for mobile phones -- we're not force-fitting content that should be read on a computer screen onto a cell phone."

Ask Mobile GPS was built in partnership with WaveMarket, Inc., a global leader in mobile applications and GPS technology. WaveMarket's advanced GPS- based technologies provide the backbone to the application.