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MapInfo
M A G A Z I N E
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2
SPRING 2001
DIRECTOR, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
Barbara Kane Pilliod
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Debbie Sgroi
TECHNICAL EDITOR
Dianne Ritter
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Angela Girard
CORPORATE OFFICERS
John C. Cavalier
Michael D. Marvin
Co-Chairmen of the Board
Mark P. Cattini
President and
Chief Executive Officer
D. Joseph Gersuk
Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Michael Hickey
Executive Vice President,
Sales and Marketing
George Moon
Group Vice President, R&D,
and Chief Technology Officer
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from the editor
MapInfo, with significant partnerships and alliances in the wireless
world, is leveraging its proven expertise in location intelligence
to deliver new and valuable mobile location services. Powered by
MapInfo’s location processing engines, geocoding, map generation,
routing and geographic content, these new services are integrated
with world leaders’ location offerings—such as Alcatel, Genimap,
Lucent, Motorola, Neumobility, Oracle, and Vodafone. (See pages 6-8).
MapInfo is rising above the noise in the mobile location services market and
delivering mobile location applications with two platforms—the MapInfo ® Location
Management Platform (LMP) and MapInfo ® miAware TM
platform. The LMP adds
location to call processing for enhanced 911, location billing and mobile 411
applications. miAware enables the integration of location specific functions to
create services, including find the nearest, locate the user and content management
services such as yellow pages and traffic incidents. MapInfo mobile Internet services
built on miAware include MapInfo ® miGuide TM
, which will provide users access to
relevant information based on their current location—a traveler’s godsend—and
MapInfo ® miConnect TM
, which will connect field workers to headquarters, children
to parents and friends to friends. (See more on MapInfo’s killer apps on page 6.)
As seen in this issue, MapInfo is the power behind first-to-market solutions to meet
today’s mobile demands.
Debbie Sgroi
Editor-in-Chief
contents:
features
4 Cover Story:
Wireless Revolution Looking for
Mobile Data Jump Start
By Josh Newman
6 MapInfo Delivers Today’s
‘Killer’ Applications for Mobile
Location Services:
E911 LOCATION MANAGEMENT AND MOBILE
SERVICES PLATFORM
By Angela Girard
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departments
News & Trends
12 re:sources
13 VIEWPOINT: EMEA
17 INDUSTRY FOCUS: Government
21 INDUSTRY FOCUS: Data
23 Upcoming Events
23 VIEWPOINT: Asia Pacific
24 User Groups
technical
14 Check out MapInfo Professional v6.5
By Andrew Dressel
16 TechTips: Automation in
MapInfo Professional
HOW TO USE MAPBASIC CODE IN WORKSPACES
WITHOUT DOING A LOT OF PROGRAMMING
By David Greene
18 SpatialWare Extends Microsoft
SQL Server Capabilities
By Jason Weinberger
20 Site Selection Methods Can Help
Businesses with Expansion
By Felipe Calderon and Danny Heuman
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