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CityView® Releases Version 7.7 incorporating ESRI's MapObjects 2.1

Municipal Software Corporation, a leading developer of local government business process automation software, announced today the release of CityView version 7.7. The new release provides significant improvements and enhancements in user features and design capabilities - 7.7 makes it even easier for users to design and customize their CityView modules. This is the second new version of CityView released this year. The previous release of CityView 7.6 included the incorporation of ESRI's MapObjects and the latest release expands on that integration. The next release planned for the end of this year will unveil the new CityView .NET series featuring seamless integration with the Web. All releases of new CityView versions are provided to Municipal Software's clients as part of the annual software maintenance fee. Users of CityView can take immediate advantage of the new features in version 7.7. New mapping features provided by MapObjects 2.1 allow the use of GIF and JPEG images as well as linking directly to a broader range of mapping files. Pop up calendars, data grid views and new lookup table editing capabilities make the system easier to use for those entering data, while features like snap to grid and undo and redo changes make form design a snap!

Visit:- www.MunicipalSoftware.com

Tele Atlas North America announces release of Multinet Usa 2001.1

Tele Atlas North America, a unit of Tele Atlas NV, and premier provider of digital map databases and real-time traffic information for the U.S., is being lauded for its recent release of MultiNet USA 2001.1, its mid-year update of its suite of US data products. The release features significant new enhancements, making it the most positionally accurate and comprehensive nationwide road network in the United States. The updated spatial features in MultiNet USA 2001.1 encompass areas covering 31% of the U.S. population. The updates in this release reposition areas to 12 meter or better accuracy, meeting the National Map Accuracy (NMA) standard, and include newly added roads and streets thus greatly increasing users' access to current and comprehensive street data.

Visit:- www.teleatlas.com

Microcell Connexions and PowerLOC to bring wireless position and tracking solutions to Canada

Microcell Connexions Inc., a subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., and PowerLOC Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradigm Advanced Technologies has announced an agreement whereby PowerLOC will deploy its L-Biz(R) GPS wireless satellite position and tracking solutions in Canada using Microcell Connexions' Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) network. The agreement was achieved as a result of Project Rainbow, a wireless industry initiative launched earlier this year by Microcell Telecommunications, which is designed to bring together an ecosystem of organizations to develop and market commercial mobile data services. With this agreement, PowerLOC will offer its first generation VLD 104 GSM-based vehicle location devices in Canada based on wireless connectivity of Microcell's GPRS network with the potential of roaming capabilities to the United States and elsewhere. Two-way data and text communications between a client using the PowerLOC L-Biz(R) Web browser access to PowerLOC's Tracker(TM) server and the Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled VLD 104 mobile devices will provide a cost-effective solution for tracking, locating and communicating with vehicles using Microcell's Short Messaging Service (SMS).

Visit: http://www.powerloc.com/ & www.microcellcnx.com

NASA conducts archaeology from space

JACKSON, Mississippi: The Lewis and Clark expedition was a two-year journey into a new frontier that helped put the West on the map. Now NASA is trying to do the same for the historic trek.

Scientists are using high-resolution satellite images to help pinpoint and map possible camp sites along the trail of the expedition, which is approaching its 200th anniversary.

NASA has conducted such space archaeology in the past, locating roads built by Pueblo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona more than 1,000 years ago.

NASA's Stennis Space Center on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is working with Karsmizki and the center on the project, which will continue until at least 2004, when the nation marks the journey's bicentennial.

Source: Times Of India

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STPI-Stanford Univ study on slowdown

CHENNAI, Sept. 20- STANFORD University and Software Technology Parks India (STPI) have jointly undertaken a study to analyse the impact of the IT downturn on Indian software companies.

Ms S. Rajalakshmi, Director, STPI, Chennai, told newspersons on Thursday that the nation-wide study was being undertaken across the 6,000 STPI units, and was expected to be completed by October-end.

The study is aimed at understanding the performance of software companies in the last few months, following a recession in the IT sector.

A questionnaire was being sent to all these units to collect data, she said. ``The recession in the industry is a major concern for us.''

Despite the recession, small software companies are still coming up. However, a lot of MoUs signed between software companies a few months ago were yet to materialise, she added.

Meanwhile, STPI Chennai, in association with Aithent Technologies, will organise a half-a-day seminar for IT professionals titled `Bulletproof your future' on September 22 at Tidel Park.

The seminar would have representatives from the IT industry and academicians answering queries from professionals on the current recession in the industry and how to deal with it, Mr B Ramakrishnan, Executive Vice-President, Aithent Technologies, said.

Source: Business Line