@Road Joins Location Interoperability Forum; Membership to Complement @Road Roll-Out of LocationSmart Mobile Resource Management Solutions to Wireless Web-Enabled Devices.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001 @Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a leading provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), today announced that it has joined the Location Interoperability Forum (LIF 1. (hardware) LIF - Low Insertion Force. 2. (file format) LIF - Logical Interchange Format. ). The LIF was founded by Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia to advance the worldwide deployment of location-based services See mobile positioning. . The @Road representative to the Location Interoperability Forum will be Rodric C. Fan, @Road founder and chief technology officer, who plans to work closely with LIF members to help develop and promote integration solutions designed to simplify the ability to locate mobile devices across different wireless network platforms. Fan is a noted expert on global positioning systems, with more than 17 years of engineering experience in GPS software and hardware design. "We're excited about the development and partnering opportunities associated with our membership in the Location Interoperability Forum," said Krish Panu, @Road president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We plan to work closely with members of the LIF to extend our expertise in the delivery of location-specific mobile resource management solutions in order to help create the standards that will drive the development of quality Internet applications for users of wireless Web-enabled devices." About Location Interoperability Forum Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia founded the Location Interoperability Forum (LIF) to achieve the goals of offering location-based services worldwide on wireless networks and terminals. Founded in September 2000, the purpose of the LIF is to define, develop and promote -- through global standard bodies and specification organizations -- a common and ubiquitous location services See mobile positioning. solution allowing applications to retrieve location information from wireless networks and terminals irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite their underlying air interface technologies and positioning methods. For more information about the Location Interoperability Forum, visit the LIF Web site at www.locationforum.org. About @Road Based in Fremont, @Road is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management. Its LocationSmart(TM) technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses and mobile professionals. For more information, visit www.atroad.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, @Road historical and future losses, limited operating history, the infancy of the wireless data industry where there is no established market for @Road products and services, ability of @Road to adapt to rapid technological change, reliance by @Road on a limited number of customers and dependence of @Road on wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road prospectus dated Sept. 28, 2000 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: @Road, the @Road logo, FleetASAP and LocationSmart are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road Inc. Location Interoperability Forum name and logo are trademarks of Location Interoperability Forum. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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