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SignalSoft Ranked 277th Fastest Growing Technology Company in North America
SignalSoft Corp., a leading provider of location-based mobile services, today announced that it ranked Number 277 on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on five-year percentage revenue from growth from 1996-2000. SignalSoft grew 2,056 percent during this period. SignalSoft's CEO, David Hose, credits the company's 2,056 percent revenue growth over the past five years to increased global demand for location-based services and the need for mobile operators to distinguish themselves in the marketplace. "Our growth has been driven by the advancement in the wireless industry specifically with location-based services," said Hose. "This is a prestigious ranking and we're honored to be recognized." In addition to ranking on the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, SignalSoft ranked Number 9 on the Colorado Technology Fast 50, which is a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology firms in Colorado. Overall, companies that ranked on the 2001 Technology Fast 500 had five-year growth rates ranging from 115,874 to 824 percent, with an average rate of 6,184 percent.
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Rand McNally & Palm announce marketing alliance to deliver co-branded mobile travel solution
Rand McNally, the world's premier provider of mapping, routing and travel solutions, and Palm, Inc., a leading provider of handheld computers, have announced a marketing alliance that has resulted in a co-branded application for Palm(TM) m505, m500 and m125 handhelds that is based on Rand McNally's flagship print Road Atlas. The PalmPak(R) Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas contains maps and road travel information for the United States (excluding Hawaii and Alaska), allowing users to create city-to-city driving directions for more than 12,000 cities, and includes a detailed database of amenities for more than 10,000 highway exits. The PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas features over a half million miles of U.S. highways and major roads, the most of any Palm handheld mapping application to date. Users will be able to create city-to-city driving directions and access the detailed database of highway exit information, which includes gas, lodging, food and ATMs. Additional functions include the ability to search by city, state, exit number, radius and three-letter airport codes; mileage and driving time calculations; and narrative descriptions of thousands of Rand McNally-researched point-of-interest listings, such as shopping and attractions.
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CellGuide's new location-fixing mobile phone add-on uses Sarantel antenna
Antenna specialist, Sarantel, has announced that CellGuide, a leader in wireless location fixing technology and products, has selected the company's PowerHelix(TM) antenna for use in its new mobile phone GPS add-on. CellGuide's AGPS (Assisted-GPS) incorporates a full extra sensitivity GPS (Global Positioning System) engine which enables the mobile user's geographical position to be accurately identified, often to within 5 metres. Used as a replacement for a standard mobile phone battery, the AGPS will provide enormous opportunities for service providers and operators who will be able to offer their customers a wide variety of additional value-added services such as automobile navigation, geo-based billing and intelligent Internet applications. The add-on's introduction is timely since US service carriers need to provide details of how they intend to ensure that 95% of 911 mobile emergency calls can be located to within 150 metres, a task easily accomplished by GPS technology.
Visit: http://www.cell-guide.com/ & http://www.sarantel.com/
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Move on to involve pvt sector in space industry
BANGALORE, Nov. 16 - THE Department of Space (DoS) is working on an initiative which will see a quantum jump in private sector involvement in the country's space segment.
The strategy will unfold with the Tenth Plan beginning next year.
To push start the initiative, a separate arm, Space Industries Development (SID), has been set up within the ISRO. The next step is a full-fledged Industrial Participation Policy that will take shape in the coming months.
``The idea is to divest the manufacturing responsibilities in favour of the private industries as much as possible, ideally even 100 per cent, and leave ISRO free to concentrate on R&D and work on new technologies that will be useful for the next ten years,'' said Mr M.N. Satyanarayan, Executive Director of the five-month-old SID.
With a single policy, the country, he said, could take up advanced space programmes as well as have a solid industry base, as in the US or Europe. The industry will benefit from its association in a high-tech area with strong export possibilities.
The ISRO already collaborates with some 500 large, medium and small industries and outsources 65-70 per cent of its satellites and launch vehicle components. ``All this will be intensified and integrated into a much bigger involvement of the private sector than before,'' Mr Satyanarayan said.
Those in demand will be aerospace industries that can make high precision components, electronic, chemical, vacuum engineering, process, heavy engineering and optical segments. The existing links will be strengthened while not too many new ones will be desirable right away.
Read Complete Article at: http://www.hinduonnet.com/bline/2001/11/17/stories/1417673v.htm
U.S. export curbs may delay launch of MTSAT satellite
The launch of the nation's first Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT), a U.S.-made geostationary orbiting environmental satellite, originally scheduled for early 2003 by the Construction and Transport Ministry and the Meteorological Agency, is likely to be delayed due to export restrictions imposed on the manufacturer by the U.S. government, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The U.S. State Department has recently tightened restrictions on high-tech exports, including the export to Japan of the high-tech communication satellite manufactured by Space Systems Loral Inc. The directive is likely to affect the satellite's production schedule.
Ministry officials said the launch of the MTSAT satellite may be delayed to mid-2003, just in time to collect and analyze data for the seasonal typhoons that normal pass over the Japanese archipelago at that time of the year. The geostationary environmental satellite has a navigation-control system in addition to the regular weather-monitoring functions with which its predecessors, including the Himawari 5, have been equipped.
The first attempt to launch an MTSAT, in November 1999, ended in failure when the H-2 rocket carrying it had to be destroyed soon after takeoff. After this disaster, the government decided to order a second satellite from the U.S. manufacturer for launch in early 2003.
The Himawari 5, which sends meteorological data to more than 20 Asia-Pacific countries, was put into orbit in June 1995. It was due to be shut down after five years, however, the Meteorological Agency has had to extend its operations.
Read the article at: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011117wo71.htm
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