Televigation's TeleNav Steers Voters To Polls; Mobile Phone-Based GPS Navigation Service Directs Drivers to Polling Stations During November Election.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Televigation's TeleNav GPS service can direct drivers to unfamiliar polling places this election year, leaving voters more time to think about the issues rather than worry about how to find the location to cast their ballot. Similar to GPS systems found in luxury vehicles, TeleNav provides voice automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. driving cues, which give turn-by-turn directions and take drivers directly to assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. voting locations. The product offers users more enhanced features than conventional GPS navigation See GPS. systems, including voice-activated destination input, airport code location information, Yellow Pages and multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. capabilities including Spanish, Russian and Mandarin Mandarin (măn`dərĭn) [Port. mandar=to govern, or from Malay mantri=counselor of state], a high official of imperial China. For each of the nine grades there was a different colored button worn on the dress cap. . "Many people have to vote during the work day, and driving from their office to a random location may not be a common routine," said Salman Dhanani, senior director of marketing at Televigation. "With millions of people getting out to vote on November 2nd, TeleNav can guide users to their polling spot, without the hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936. It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with of having to print off a map or call for directions." TeleNav costs a fraction of the price of in-car navigation solutions, starting at just $9.99 per month, including Nextel's Total Connect data plan. For further information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.net. About Televigation Televigation is the leading provider of wireless motion-based services, which include GPS navigation and tracking. Televigation's technology can deliver voice-interface, feature-rich motion-based services over standard mobile phones and other wireless devices. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , TeleNav, is a navigation service similar to the GPS systems found in luxury vehicles, but integrated into mobile phones, costing a fraction of the price. Televigation was awarded first prize in the business and productivity category for Motorola's Developer contest at JavaOne 2003. For more information, please visit the company's Web sites at www.telenav.net or www.telenavtrack.net. |
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