Archive Category: Mapping
April 29, 2004 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Navman launches Pocket PC navigation device
LONDON -- Navman-Europe is launching its Navman PiN Pocket PC, a GPS (Global Positioning System) device with integrated Pocket PC capabilities. This Personal Interactive Navigation device was described by the company as "where personal organisation meets state-of-the-art navigation, delivering everything you will ever need to coordinate your life and get from A to B without any hassle." The cable-free PiN comes with PAN European mapping, navigating the user throughout Europe whether driving in a car or walking city streets.
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December 15, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
MapInfo offers map database of Wi-Fi hotspots
TROY, New York -- The rapidly maturing Wi-Fi industry is already well established at major airports and hotels. But, how does the traveler find other hotspots? MapInfo, using a Jupitermedia database of Wi-Fi hotspots, is now providing one answer.
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December 4, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Starwood Hotels selects MapQuest server
DULLES, Virginia -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has licensed the MapQuest Enterprise Server v2.0 as the provider of location-based services on Starwood's branded hotel web sites. In addition, the agreement provides for future deployment of MapQuest services in a number of customer service applications, as well as internal enterprise applications, including Starwood's corporate intranet site.
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July 28, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Avis offers Motorola Navigation in US, Canada
LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois -- Avis Rent A Car System and Motorola will make the Avis Assist phone-based navigation system available in up to fifty cities across the United States and Canada. Avis Assist, developed by Motorola, allows Avis customers to rent a Motorola phone with a location-based navigation service that literally 'talks them through' directions to a destination, broadcasting street names and maneuvers along the way.
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January 29, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Maporama offers digital street maps of Taiwan
PARIS -- Maporama, a French company providing location-centric applications, now has detailed street level maps of cities in Taiwan, covering more than 4,500 miles of digitally mapped roads, including Taiwan's capital city, Taipei, as well as T'aoyuan and Chun. In addition to its exclusive coverage of Hong Kong and Singapore, Maporama also becomes the only global provider of location-centric applications to offer detailed street-level maps of cities of Taiwan.
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January 17, 2003 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Wireless navigation, mapping product launched
GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Wayfinder Systems, a global provider of wireless navigation, mapping and traffic information services and technologies, launched its new Wayfinder wireless navigation product at Comdex Scandinavia this week. Itinerary Systems changed the company name to Wayfinder Systems last week.
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November 18, 2002 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Maporama chosen for Accor hotels Web site
PARIS -- Maporama, a leading provider of online location-centric applications, has been chosen by the global hotel company Accor to provide the online hotel locator for the Accor Hotels' reservation Web site. The two companies said the new agreement will enable Internet users to localize, using a Web browser, all Accor hotels for a destination of choice.
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November 13, 2002 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Glick replaces Durocher as Webraska CEO
PARIS -- Webraska, a global provider of location-based services (LBS), has announced that co-founder and CEO Jean-Michel Durocher is being replaced as CEO by Barry Glick. Durocher will remain a member of the company's board of directors. Glick has served as chairman of Webraska for the past six months.
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November 11, 2002 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Tablet PC used in airport security pilot program
SAN RAFAEL, California -- Autodesk has extended its Homeland Security Initiative to take advantage of the Microsoft Tablet PC with a successful pilot program at an unspecified major airport in the western United States.
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July 22, 2002 | Permalink | m-Travel.com
Traveldoo adopts Maporama's location services
PARIS -- Traveldoo Technologies, a European provider of electronic travel management systems, has announced the integration of Maporama's online location-centric services into its software solutions Traveldoo ShopSite, Traveldoo Portal and Traveldoo Mobile. Maporama is a leading provider of online location-centric solutions.
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