Award-winning PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas to be Showcased At CES 2002.Business/Technology Editors CES 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2002 CES--Rand McNally, the world's premier provider of mapping, routing and travel solutions, is showcasing the new, award-winning PalmPak(R) Travel Card: Rand McNally Rand McNally & Company is the preeminent American publisher of maps, atlases, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data. Road Atlas A road atlas is a map or set of maps that primarily display roads and transport links rather than geographical information. Types Road Atlases come in many shapes, sizes and scales. for Palm(TM) m505, m500 and m125 handhelds at the Consumer Electronics Show 2002, Palm Pavilion, Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. So. Booth 3-4/14525F, January 8-11. Based on Rand McNally's flagship print Road Atlas, the PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas contains maps and road travel information for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Users can calculate city-to-city driving directions for more than 12,000 cities, and access a detailed database of highway exit information, including gas, lodging, food and ATMs, for more than 10,000 exits. The product recently received a Best of COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). 2001 award for the best mobile/handheld software, and the product is a finalist for the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property 2002 CODIE Awards for best handheld application. "The PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas has been a huge hit with consumers, especially during the holiday season," said Robert P. Denaro, senior vice president of the business-to-business unit of Rand McNally. "Working with Palm, we've developed innovative consumer technology that takes key content on 140 pages of the Road Atlas on a memory card the size of a postage stamp postage stamp, government stamp affixed to mail to indicate payment of postage. The term includes stamps printed or embossed on postcards and envelopes as well as the adhesive labels. ." The PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas features more than a half million miles of U.S. highways and major roads (excluding Hawaii and Alaska), the most of any Palm handheld mapping application to date. Users can search by city, state, exit number, radius and three-letter airport codes; calculate mileage and driving time; and access narrative descriptions of thousands of points of interest, all researched by Rand McNally. The product is integrated with Rand McNally's print Road Atlas for additional reference and trip planning capabilities. The PalmPak Travel Card: Rand McNally Road Atlas sells for $39.95 and is available in retail stores in the United States and Canada and online at randmcnally.com and The Palm Store (http://store.palm.com). About Rand McNally Rand McNally & Company, founded in 1856, is the world's premier provider of mapping, routing and travel solutions for consumers and businesses via print, software, the Internet and handheld devices. In addition to publishing the flagship Rand McNally Road Atlas, the company operates 28 Map & Travel stores across the United States and provides online travel services at randmcnally.com. The company includes Thomas Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Maps, Rand McNally Canada, Rand McNally-TDM, Inc. and also creates geographic information for reference and education. For more information, visit www.randmcnally.com. PalmPak is a registered trademark and Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Members of the press are encouraged to visit Rand McNally in the Palm Pavilion, Las Vegas Convention Center So. Booth 3-4/14525F for a product demonstration and interview opportunities. 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