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Mobiminds and Webraska sign a strategic agreement to offer LBS and Telematics solutions in Brazil
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Maisons-Laffitte, France, and Sao Paulo, 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.
Eduardo Park, CEO of Mobiminds commented: "This agreement is a very important step towards our goal to consolidate our position as a leader of navigation services. The combination of our local experience and database, with Webraska's technology and worldwide leadership, will allow our customers to rapidly deploy LBS and Telematics services in Brazil".
"This agreement in South America is in line with our strategy of serving our partners and customers with technologies and services that function across countries and across continents. Our largest customers, as well as our growing community of application developers, need a partner that can support them around the world", said Jean-Michel Durocher, CEO of Webraska. "Thanks to Mobiminds' dynamism, local expertise and superior mapping content, Webraska is today able to show its commitment to Brazil and South America."
About Webraska
Webraska is the worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies.
The company offers a full range of products designed to develop and launch internet-based wireless navigation and location-based services and applications. Webraska's technology has been chosen by industry leaders, including Airtel, Belgacom, Blu, Borg, KPN, IBM, M1, Nortel, Oracle, Orange, Pacific Access, SFR, Telecom Italia Mobile, Vizzavi, and VoiceStream.
Webraska has offices in 12 countries.
For more information visit: www.webraska.com
About Webraska Wireless Navigation Platform™
Webraska's Wireless Navigation Platform™ is the only platform that allows service providers to serve the needs of end-users both while walking down the street and while driving their car. It allows the rapid development and deployment of international, multi-lingual and personalized internet-based LBS and Telematics applications. These are available via multiple access modes such as IVR, SMS, WAP, Web, I-Mode, Palm, PocketPC, Brew and Java. The Platform provides advanced functionalities such as international geocoding, enhanced spatial searching, and multi-modal real-time route optimization.
About IbDN® Lite
Built on Webraska's Wireless Navigation Platform™, IbDN® Lite is the first wireless navigation service that covers both Europe and the Americas. The service is downloadable to all hand-held or vehicle-mounted PDAs/Pocket PCs. It offers turn-by-turn navigation for motorists and pedestrians alike, from departure to final destination, supported by voice and visual directions. Also provided are: navigation instructions based on current traffic conditions, points-of-interest information and routing to POIs based upon user preferences.
About Mobiminds
With its portal Apontador, Mobiminds is the fastest growing and leading provider of Navigation Services on the Internet, WAP and PDA in Brazil. Mobiminds' map dataset is the result of a direct investment of the company to develop the most up-to date routing maps in Brazil. In September 2000, the Apontador portal was Mobiminds' first product, focussed in providing GIS (Geographic Information Systems) solutions, through any Web and Wireless terminals. The Apontador portal has been chosen by the Academy Ibest in Brazil as one of the 3 best WAP portals on the market. Mobiminds already provides services to key players such as operators like TELESP Cellular (Portugal Telecom), TELEFONICA, and portals such as MSN, Globo.com and Lycos-Brazil.
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