Rand McNally has unveiled its new 2002 Road Atlas, which allows users to quickly access vast travel information and custom road trip planning on the company's Web site. The new edition features Express Access Codes on its pages. Simply by typing an Express Access Code on the randmcnally.com home page, 2002 Road Atlas users will have fast access to profiles of U.S. states and Canadian provinces, cities, Best of the Road(TM) trips, and a mileage calculator. The profiles, compiled and written by Rand McNally, include information on National Parks, things to do, places to stay, current road construction, weather and travel tips. There are more than 400 Express Access Codes throughout the 2002 Road Atlas.
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www.randmcnally.com
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Mobiminds and Webraska sign a strategic agreement to offer LBS in Brazil
Mobiminds, the leader of the Brazilian on-line mapping market has signed an agreement with Webraska, the worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, to supply global wireless operators, Telematics providers and automotive manufacturers with Webraska's range of solutions. With 170 millions inhabitants, more than 20 million private vehicles and 29 million cellular subscribers, Brazil offers one of the biggest potential markets for Location-Based Services and Telematics applications. The agreement allows Mobiminds to extend its reach to the telematics market, and enables Webraska to support its global customers and strategic partners wishing to extend their offering to Brazil. Mobiminds will exclusively commercialise the whole range of Webraska's wireless navigation products and services to the Brazilian market. These include the award-winning Internet-based Distributed Navigation® Lite application for PDAs and the carrier-grade Wireless Navigation Platform™ used by industry leaders such as Telecom Italia Mobile, IBM and Pacific Access to develop and deploy advanced LBS and Telematics applications.
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www.webraska.com
BORG Instruments partners with SiRF to deliver an innovative automobile navigation system
BORG Instruments, a European leader in automotive electronics, and SiRF Technology, Inc., a leading developer of location technology based on global positioning system (GPS), have announced that they have partnered to deliver a new-generation, low-cost navigation and telematics terminal from BORG, called QuoVadis(R). SiRF's GPS architecture provides the location engine for this innovative new product, which offers low cost, interactive, real-time telematics services, itinerary calculation, maps, turn-by-turn navigation, point-of-information access, and traffic information throughout Europe and the U.S. The combination of the QuoVadis(R) terminal with SiRF's SiRFstar(TM)II GPS architecture represents the best performance available today in a real-time automotive navigation terminal- at a breakthrough price point.
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www.borg.de &
www.sirf.com.
Code Technologies chooses Paradigm as location based service technology provider
PowerLOC Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc., has announced that Code Technologies Inc. (CTI) has selected the PowerLOC division of Paradigm to be their technology provider of location-based security products throughout North America. As part of the master agreement between the two companies, PowerLOC will sell to CTI its proprietary Vehicle Location Devices (VLD's) and will also make available to CTI use of its L-BIZ(TM) Tracker Server until such time that CTI acquires its own server. PowerLOC's technology will be used by CTI to provide their customers with enhanced vehicle security and road assistance services through CTI's response centers, the precise location and status of the vehicles via the Internet. PowerLOC's L-BIZ(TM) Tracker Server technology offers mapping, fleet management, customer care, billing and wireless network access and Internet connectivity to their users.
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http://www.powerloc.com/
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India tracks endangered sea turtles by satellite
A unique initiative in India is giving a major boost to conservation of endangered olive ridley sea turtles by tracking their travels at sea by satellite.
The coast of Orissa, the eastern state of India, is the largest nesting site of olive ridley turtles in the world. The turtles have been known to nest there in the tens of thousands. Scientists have studied their nesting habits, but little is known of the olive ridleys' migratory patterns, information critical for conservation efforts.
A team of researchers in Orissa has fitted 'Chandra', a nesting female olive ridley, and three others of her species with special tracking devices to enable to study their long-range migration and foraging patterns at sea. Partners in the initiative include the wildlife wing of the Orisssa Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, with support from India's Ministry of Environment and Forests. This initiative is part of a wider effort in 10 states in India to strengthen information gathering and collaboration on the biology and conservation of these endangered marine creatures.
UNDP is providing funding for the project in support of India's environmental conservation efforts, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service is contributing technical expertise in satellite telemetry to track the turtles.
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http://www.undp.org/dpa/frontpagearchive/2001/august/8aug01/index.html
