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November 2000
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Webraska and Blue Impact Join Forces to Demonstrate Worldwide Navigation & Mapping Services on GPS & GSM Equipped PDA Devices
Webraska, Italy the worldwide provider of personal navigation, traffic information services and maps for mobile Internet devices and Blue Impact, the designer of mobile hardware navigation solution, are cooperating to develop personal navigation services on wireless & GPS enabled PDAs.
A demonstration of this exciting capability of combining real-time routing, enhanced spatial searching, maps, GPS precise localisation with the wealth of information from the Internet on a colour PDA was shown at the major IT, Telecom and Media show - SYSTEMS 2000 in Munich, from 6-10 November 2000 on Blue Impact's stand (Hall A6, stand 507).
The new services are estimated to be available for telecom operators, telematic portals and service and content providers next year.
The first generation of personal navigation services on PDA devices will immediately benefit from the combination of Webraska's international coverage of traffic and mapping data and from Blue Impact's unique module providing accurate GPS positioning and GSM wireless data connection simultaneously.
The objective is to offer IbDN(TM) (Internet-based Distributed Navigation) on PDAs - offering traditional car navigation system functionality enhanced with traffic information, personalisation, and worldwide always up-to-date coverage.
Blue Impact has been actively developing TellMAN, the world first combine GPS & GSM Springboard(TM) module for the Visor(TM) from Handspring(TM)
``It's very exciting to see PDAs becoming wireless devices with features similar to the car navigation systems like precise positioning, large colour screens and soon vocal interfaces. Working with Blue Impact, the first company to provide a combined GPS & GSM module for Palm OS based PDA devices enables Webraska to reach a new milestone in its objective to offer IbDNTM services on most wireless devices'', commented Eric Wurmser, Business Development Manager at Webraska.
``For the first time in the PDA or fixed navigation system's history, our hardware and Webraska's worldwide wireless navigation technology will enable travelers to access a level of comfort in M- and E-business via the GSM channel. Even common limitations such as memory capacity will quickly become a problem of the past and quality of GIS data and punctual local content will play a major role in a near future'', says Brice De Ron, CEO of Blue Impact AG.
For more information visit:www.webraska.com and www.blue-impact.com
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