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Mobile Messaging and Internet Applications
       

Abstract:
Location-based Services for Mobile Users

Peter Holland
President & CEO
InfoMove

According to the Strategis Group, the number of telematics subscribers in the United States will reach 820,000 this year and surpass 11 million in 2004. Mobile devices will also soon have the capability to interface with the vehicle to provide content and resources regardless of the environment.

In this session, Peter Holland will discuss the expanding market for delivering driver-specific content to the car, including key ingredients necessary for mass market acceptance, plus applications drivers demand like predictive traffic, turn-by-turn directions, maintenance alerts and other Internet content tailored for the driving environment. He will also discuss the emergence of new technical standards to make wireless Internet and automotive-based computing seamless technologies in the coming years.

  • Integrating the advantages of the Internet with the car

  • Delivering a broad range of personalized real-time, customized Internet content and traffic data through handheld devices connected in cars

  • Providing the seamless, transparent technology layer between Internet content providers, GPS, portals, wireless carriers and end users

  • Aggregating strategic partners’ content &application data, and presenting information to end users through different information appliances

  • Providing safe and affordable access to critical information in vehicles

Al Lewis
Director of Product Management,
Wireless Internet Location Services

SigmaOne Communications

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