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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Maporama joins UDDI e-commerce standards

PARIS -- Maporama, a leading provider of online location-centric applications, has joined the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration project (UDDI). This project is an industry initiative working to enable businesses to quickly, easily and dynamically find and transact with one another using a preferred application.

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Trimble introduces first GIS using Windows CE

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Trimble has introduced its GeoExplorer CE, the world's first Windows CE device with an integrated global positioning system (GPS). The company is describing the new device as a "breakthrough," saying it sets a new standard for field mapping and mobile Geographic Information System (GIS) applications.

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Michelin Guide now available in UK on T-Mobile

LONDON -- Continuing its development of partnerships with large European mobile phone operators, ViaMichelin has launched the UK version of its Michelin Red Guide application on T-Mobile online, the mobile data arm of T-Mobile International. This means that subscribers to the T-Mobile online service in the UK can access the full range of Michelin recommended hotels and restaurants in the UK and around Europe.

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MapInfo now covers 5 million km of Europe's roads

MapInfo has launched an enhanced version of Cartique, its road network map dataset providing seamless coverage for East and Western Europe. Described as "the most up to date mapping data of its kind," Cartique Europe 2002 now includes more than 5 million kilometres of European roads, a 44% increase over the previous version.

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Mapquest founder named Webraska board chair

MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France -- Barry Glick, the founder and former CEO of Mapquest, has been named chairman of the board of directors of Webraska, a worldwide provider of location-based services (LBS) and telematics applications and enabling platforms. 

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Webraska releases new version of location platform

MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France -- Webraska, a global provider of location-based services (LBS) and telematics applications and enabling platforms, has released version 2.0 of SmartZone Geospatial, which now offers in-vehicle wireless navigation, dynamic real-time traffic maps, address recognition, spatial searching, and routing.

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Navigation Technologies expands in Europe

CHICAGO -- Navigation Technologies is expanding rapidly in Europe, with launches in the past two weeks of real-time mapping for wireless location based services, a voice-enabled mapping system for wireless Internet, and the first digital navigation maps for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Maporama has first i-mode LBS outside Japan

PARIS -- Maporama, a major provider of online and wireless location-centric applications, has launched a new service on an i-mode platform, calling it "the first market-ready professional location-centric product offered by a non-Japanese provider." The France-based company said that all Maporama customers can now integrate full-blown i-mode based location-centric solutions into their Internet services.

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Wireless Navigator developed for mobile workers

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Portable Internet is launching a new generation of wireless tracking and satellite navigation products for mobile work force employers, device makers, carriers and national brands. Raising the bar for wireless application value, the company says these products use advanced, occasionally connected wireless technology to intelligently cache geo-data on smart devices like Palm's i705.Reliable and economical GPS location services are now available over current 2G, as well as 2.5 and 3G wireless networks.

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Apple co-founder Wozniak gets into wireless

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Steve Wozniak, the technical visionary and co-founder of Apple Computer, has launched Wheels of Zeus (wOz), a new company focused on designing new consumer electronics wireless products to help everyday people track everyday things. The company has secured US$6 million in first round funding from Mobius Venture Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Palo Alto Investors.

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E-City plans to launch wireless 3D CityMap

SEATTLE -- E-City Software is using new market initiatives in the wireless industry that have created significant product opportunities for wireless versions of E-City's core 3D CityMap technology. E-City has announced plans to launch its first wireless enabled 3D CityMap product in March  2002.

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Palm and Rand McNally win Best of Comdex

LAS VEGAS -- Rand McNally and Palm received a Best of Comdex 2001 award for the best mobile handheld software at this year's event. The award was presented by a group of leading technology publications to Palm and Rand McNally for the co-branded PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas for Palm m505, m500 and m125 handhelds that are based on Rand McNally's flagship print Road Atlas.

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Portable Internet introduces GPS for handhelds

PARK RIDGE, New Jersey -- With the trademarked tag line "You'd be lost without us," Portable Internet has introduced its destination guide and navigator for Palm OS, Pocket PC and Windows CE handheld mobile devices now enhanced with GPS position location, proximity searches, and navigation. The system also has voice navigation for Pocket PC.

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MapQuest offers PDA mobile mapping

DULLES, Va. -- MapQuest.com has launched Mobile MapQuest v. 3.0 for wireless handheld devices. Long the most popular mapping service on the Web, maps are now available on mobile devices using the Palm operating system.  

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