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Wherify Wireless GPS Personal Locator Service to feature online aerial images
GlobeXplorer, Inc., a technology company that enables the delivery of the world's largest collection of interactive aerial images via the Internet, has announced that Wherify Wireless, Inc., a developer of end-to-end location-based products and services, has chosen GlobeXplorer to provide aerial imagery for use with their GPS Personal Locator for Children. As a result of the agreement, Wherify will be able to provide parents with accurate and detailed online aerial photos of their children's location and surroundings using GlobeXplorer's proprietary technology and library of aerial images. GlobeXplorer has created a proprietary technology to dynamically search, retrieve and deliver a requested photo from its library of millions of images within seconds to end users. Wherify's GPS Personal Locator for Children, simply worn on a child's wrist, is a patented safety solution that gives parents peace of mind knowing they can locate their children, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Parents, whether at work, home, or traveling, can use the Internet or any phone to quickly identify their children's whereabouts within several feet of their exact location. The location process typically takes less than a minute as parents log into or call the Wherify Location Service Center. The Location Service Center links all location information together, including mapping, direction of their child's travel, location history, emergency response and other features for parents wanting to locate their children.
Visit: www.wherify.com & www.globexplorer.com
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DMTI Spatial first private sector Company appreciated by Canadian Academic GIS Elite
Canada's leading GIS solutions provider, DMTI Spatial, announced its involvement with Canada's academic community in their efforts to provide over 40 Canadian Universities and Colleges with access to the DMTI Spatial CanMap(r) street map and routing data product line. The aim of the program is to provide affordable access to data in support of social science, research, business and environmental geographic educational programs. It provides participating colleges and universities with an enterprise wide site license to use the data for teaching and research purposes. Academia has been highly supportive and appreciative of DMTI Spatial and their efforts to liberate access to Canadian GIS data. "The DMTI Spatial initiative to provide high-quality geospatial data to post-secondary institutions across Canada is a groundbreaking achievement for GIS education in this country. Faculty and students will benefit from the best Canadian geospatial data available anywhere. This agreement will most likely be a model for many other educational initiatives to benefit from GIS education in North America", said Marcel A.J. Fortin, John P. Robarts Library, University of Toronto.
Visit: http://www.dmtispatial.com/detailed_press_release.asp?id=54
Maporama launches Maporama Enterprise Solutions
Maporama, a provider of location-centric applications, has announced the launch of Maporama Enterprise Solutions, a new product suite allowing key executives in the retail, portal, and telecommunications sectors to reduce costs and increase revenues through intelligent utilisation of existing address data. This new product suite is a further development of Maporama's core competency that the company has gathered providing companies with market-leading geocentric solutions. Designed for Maporama's traditional market - retail, telecommunications, and Internet portal industries - Maporama Enterprise Solutions takes location intelligence applications one step further and reach far beyond "standard" mapping, innovating the way an enterprise exploits its location-related information. Perfectly adapted for particular mission-critical needs of each organisation unit of a company, Maporama Enterprise Solutions allow respective executives to turn existing address data into money saving and revenue-generating information.
Visit: www.maporama.com
Verizon Wireless, Wingcast To Equip Autos with Bells and Whistles
As it prepares to launch next year, telematics provider Wingcast is putting together all the pieces of a comprehensive automotive communications system. The company said it added a major component with a commitment from Verizon Wireless to deliver voice and data services for vehicles outfitted with the Wingcast service. Established a year ago as a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm, Wingcast promises to offer such in-dash options as hands-free, high-speed communications, location-based applications, GPS (global positioning system) and a variety of other wireless services. Wingcast will be available in selected Ford and Nissan vehicles beginning with the 2003 model year, the company said. Some one million vehicles initially will include the system. The exclusive alliance with the nation's largest wireless carrier gives Wingcast access to Verizon's CDMA (code division multiple access) network, and the two companies said they will jointly develop voice pricing plans and service bundles for Wingcast customers.
Visit: http://wireless.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15323.html & www.wingcast.com
Cessna brings GARMIN Avionics aboard popular Caravan Aircraft
Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. and the leading avionics manufacturer for the general aviation market, has announced that Cessna Aircraft Co. will offer GARMIN's integrated avionics suite as optional equipment in its entire line of Caravan aircraft. Cessna selected GARMIN's GNS 530, GNS 430, GTX 327 digital transponder and GMA 340 audio panel as advanced avionics options on all new Caravan models -- the Caravan 675, Caravan Amphibian, Grand Caravan and Super Cargomaster. At the heart of the GARMIN avionics suite is the revolutionary GNS 430/530. Both radios integrate an IFR GPS/NAV/COM/ILS with VOR/LOC and glideslope on a high-resolution color display, delivering navigation-critical data on a single screen for easy pilot scanning and reduced cockpit workload. Both units also have interface capabilities for traffic, weather and lightning detection to provide increased safety and situational awareness to the owner and operator of the aircraft. Cessna Caravans have long set the standard for reliability in freight, scheduled airline/commuter service, executive use, and special-mission applications and in operations that include unimproved, short runways. Cessna Aircraft has already begun installing GARMIN avionics in Caravans at its Wichita, Kan., factory.
Visit: www.garmin.com/pressroom & www.textron.com
Maporama launches Maporama marketing applications
Maporama, a provider of location-centric applications, launches Maporama Marketing Applications, the first module in a series of mission-critical applications comprised in Maporama Enterprise Solutions. This new development allows marketing executives to take advantage of existing address data in order to strengthen and optimise marketing actions. Designed for key marketing executives in the retail, telco, and Internet portal industries, Maporama's Marketing Applications allow the leveraging of operations by providing end consumers with a seamless experience through all channels a corporation uses to communicate and market its products and services. This wide compatibility features enables all possible implementations of Maporama Marketing Applications, including Internet, Intranet, and Extranet . Thanks to this feature, companies share and utilise Maporama's location-intelligent applications to publish, share, and analyse data as needed either internally for use by in-house employees, or externally to be used by end-consumers and/or suppliers. In addition, Maporama Marketing Applications are compatible with all communications platforms (Web, Wireless, PDA, set-to-boxes) as well as with any existing cellular or landline telephone device through speech technology.
Visit: http://www.maporama.com/
Tora Bora DEM featured in front-page New York Times war coverage
Arguably the world's best map of Tora Bora, the epicenter of the current U.S. and allied effort to find and destroy forces loyal to Osama bin Laden, was published on the front page of today's New York Times. The map data was sourced and produced by East View Cartographic, which gave the NYT the hands-down "visual scoop" on the Tora Bora story. The Tora Bora graphic represents the first time that a 3-D digital terrain model has been published as a front-page graphic in the nation's premier newspaper of record, The New York Times, according to William McNulty, who runs the Times' GIS section. The Tora Bora map DEM was produced by East View Cartographic for the New York Times; the final graphic also contained information provided by NYT field reporters. EVC, based in Minneapolis, MN, has been the leader in supplying the mass media high-resolution of GIS and other map and imagery data throughout the Afghanistan operation. Other major customers include the Washington Post, Time magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and US News and World Report.
Visit: http://www.cartographic.com/
Asia News
Tiger census 
Forest officials collect the pugmarks of the royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve during a tiger census held between December 7 and 14.
According to the West Bengal Forests Department, the last census in 1999 registered 360 tigers in the State. Of these, the Sunderbans had 254 tigers. This year, besides the conventional way of counting pugmarks, the department also used a computerised cluster-analysis method for estimation. A geographic information system analysis was conducted to identify the tiger zones, the animal's habitat and the prey base.
Visit: http://www.blonnet.com/stories/181525tg.htm
`AP must export e-governance expertise'
HYDERABAD, Dec. 14 - ANDHRA Pradesh, a trend-setter in e-governance, should enter the business of offering consultancy services to other States, according to Dr Mohan Sawhney, Professor, Kellogg Management School.
The Kellogg Professor, currently visiting the Indian School of Business (ISB), said " the State should export e-governance expertise to other parts of the world, a la Cisco with its `Net Ready'.''
Describing Andhra Pradesh as a `thought and action leader in e-Governance', he urged the Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, to focus on Government to Business (G2B), that would facilitate higher investments.
Mr Naidu quickly responded saying that the State was already working out a model with the consultants — PriceWaterhouseCoopers and McKinsey & Co — to offer the technology packages for various e-Governance functions to other States or countries.
"We want the intellectual property to be protected and would evolve a model by which reasonable sharing of revenues on consultancy could be arrived at,'' Mr Naidu said.
Source: Business Line
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