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Garmin Acquires Assets and Technology of Sequoia Instruments
Garmin Ltd. has announced that it has acquired the assets of Los Gatos, Calif.-based Sequoia Instruments Inc., a research and development company, in a cash transaction of approximately $5 million. This strategic acquisition is expected to help Garmin significantly in its development of an integrated cockpit system for a wide range of aircraft. One of Sequoia's chief technologies is GPS-aided Air Data and Attitude Heading and Reference Systems (ADHRS). This technology uses solid-state sensors to provide navigation-critical data such as attitude, heading and rate information for aviation, marine and land applications. Further, Sequoia's technology delivers high performance with low-cost sensors. The company and its products have been in the forefront of leading-edge research and development efforts, including NASA's Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment (AGATE) program.
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Mercator Releases New Healthcare Integration Package
Mercator(R) Software, Inc has announced the release of its Healthcare Integration Package Version 2.0 for Mercator Integration Broker Version 6.0. The Mercator healthcare solution addresses a wide range of integration needs for organizations affected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HIPAA requires healthcare companies to standardize the processes of administering patient claims by October 16, 2002. Mercator Healthcare Integration Package 2.0 is a collection of type trees, sample maps, and sample data that help healthcare organizations quickly implement HIPAA, HL7, and X12 compliant transactions as well as comply with other healthcare standards, including CMS (the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services, formerly the Health Care Financing Association or HCFA) and NCPDP (retail pharmaceutical). The Mercator HIPAA solution delivers an unmatched combination of industry and domain expertise, a proven implementation methodology, and superior enterprise integration technology. Its built-in support for healthcare standards and sample transformation maps mean faster time to production and implementation.
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www.mercator.com/.
Web-enabled wireless telecommunications linked to GPS
Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. has released details of its much-anticipated rollout plan for Digital Angel(TM), the first-ever combination of advanced biosensor technology and Web-enabled wireless telecommunications linked to Global Positioning Systems (GPS). As previously announced, the rollout program - which began on November 26th - will enable the company to leverage its first-mover advantage in what is estimated to be a $70 billion Personal Safeguard Technology marketplace. Explaining the company's rollout plans for Digital Angel, Applied Digital Solutions' Chairman and CEO, Richard Sullivan, said: ``We want to get Digital Angel products out to customers as quickly as we possibly can. But we also want to make sure we do this right. We want to make sure our first Digital Angel customers are not only satisfied with the product, but absolutely thrilled with it. That means we need to put an emphasis on customer service and customizing the product to meet each customer's specific needs. This rollout plan is comprehensive, including advertising and a new product registration program, but it's also targeted in scope so we can manage the process and assess what works and what doesn't as we go along. We're taking this a step at a time, beginning in South Florida - which has great demographics for us - and then expanding to other markets in the coming months.''
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http://www.digitalangel.net
Ruby Mining Company announces agreements creating state-of-the-art mapping capabilities
Admiralty Corporation, DBA Ruby Mining Company, has created a strategic alliance with noted scientists for the development of operating capabilities exploiting the highest level of technology for aerial mapping of areas rich in marine archaeology. The alliance consists of scientists and scholars who specialize in marine archaeological research and in remote sensing. While the two disciplines are not unique in underwater research, the combining of expertise in designing and deploying the aerial mapping technology with advanced archaeological research represents a breakthrough in the way historic shipwrecks are located. Admiralty Corporation has an exclusive permit to search for historic shipwrecks on the Pedro Bank off the coast of Jamaica. The capabilities will allow significant target recognition, enhancement and discrimination among anomalies located in the search area. Kenneth Vrana of the Center for Maritime and Underwater Resource Management (CMURM), consultants to Admiralty Corporation said, "The combination of professional archeological research and advanced airborne remote sensing, will result in the most comprehensive underwater archaeological survey ever produced."
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http://www.admiraltycorporation.com/
Paradigm Secures $2.5 Million Financing Facility
Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has secured a purchase order and an accounts receivable financing facility for its PowerLOC division with Production Finance International, LLC of Spokane, Washington and KBK Financial, Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas. This combined financing facility has been set up in order to finance the fulfillment of the purchase orders received from its customers. ``This facility will be very helpful in funding our ongoing financial needs relating to the acquisition of inventory and the fulfillment of the purchase orders that we are receiving,'' said Paradigm's Executive Vice President and acting Chief Financial Officer, R. Charles (Chuck) Allen. ``If we continue to maintain this significant growth pattern by substantially increasing our sales every quarter, a facility of this magnitude will continue to give us the flexibility that we need to grow the company and allow us to achieve our aggressive growth-oriented plan.''
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http://www.powerloc.com/
CARIS and Holonics team to develop GeoPortal Web Services
CARIS has announced its collaboration with Holonics Data Management Group Ltd. to develop a standards-based set of geospatial web services for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). The full contract, estimated to be in excess of $274,000, is to provide the DFO with a common marine data entry point, a GeoPortal. The GeoPortal platform will access and extract knowledge from DFO's various marine and hydrographic data holdings. A powerful innovative knowledge-based geospatial infrastructure, it will augment and enhance DFO products, services and programs. The final bid team members include prime contractor Holonics Data Management Group Ltd. (
www.holonics.ca), CARIS (
www.caris.com), and Nautical Data International (
www.ndi.nf.ca). Each bringing a wealth of knowledge, technology and experience in the field of standards-based geospatial architectures for hydrographic data management and dissemination, this team is poised to develop and support an GeoPortal for DFO that will meet their existing and future IT needs. Specifically the project will include the development of web services based on open and international geospatial standards as well as development of an application to serve as an interactive user interface, or entry point, for the Portal services. The CARIS technology to be used as part of the GeoPortal infrastructure is CARIS Spatial Fusion, specifically the OGC Cascading Web Mapping Server and the OGC Web Feature Server.
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www.caris.com
Asia News
Dr. P. Nag appointed as the New Surveyor General of India.
Dr. P. Nag has been appointed as the Surveyour Generalof India. He has assumed thic charge as The Surveyour General from today, 1 December 2001. He was earlier the Director of National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO)of Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. He has also been the President of Indian Cartographic Association and Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Systems. Dr. Nag is Ph.D. from BanarasHindu University. Dr. Nag has made a significat contribution to the field of mapping and Surveying.
Websites using our maps illegally, claims Eicher
Copyright violation is plaguing the cyberworld. Several web portals and websites reporting such cases in the recent past. the Eicher City Map of Delhi seems to have been the latest victim of this menace.
Eicher Goodearth Ltd., publisher of City Map, recently moved the High Court complaining that a portal had been making unauthorised use of their digital map. They claimed that the portal was using their map illegally by linking to their website, eicherworld.com, and was earning profits by giving away hyperlinks to other websites. The court issued a stay order in October and restrained the portal.
Digital maps are so popular that companies and websites buy them for their use.
Source: Express Newsline. 30 November 2001
Space Imaging has announced the appointment of Paul Tinney to the position of executive vice president of Global Alliances. Tinney's appointment is effective immediately. Tinney is responsible for the business development and overall management of the company's Regional Affiliate program. Regional Affiliates are members of a global network who own and operate regional operations centers that enable them to control the tasking and collection of Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite within their region. Before joining Space Imaging, Tinney was the president and managing director of Terrapin Broadband, LLC, vice president of Business Development for California Microwave and senior vice president of Global Sales & Operations for Adaptive Broadband Corporation. Prior to that, Tinney worked for Motorola for 15 years, most recently as director of Marketing, Strategy and Development Ground Systems Division for the Space and Systems Technology Group. Tinney holds a master's of international business studies from the University of South Carolina.
