TripPilot™ wins 2003 SIA "Best Hobby or Personal Interest application" - Grenoble, France - 19 July 2003

GPS Pilot today announced that TripPilot™ has received the 2003 Shareware Industry Award for "Best Hobby or Personal Interest application"!

The Shareware Industry Conference, held July 16-18, 2003 in Rochester, New York, was concluded with the annual Shareware Industry Awards ceremony to honor the best and brightest in the industry. TripPilot™ was awarded the "Best Hobby or Personal Interest application" for 2003.

"We are very excited and proud to receive this award. " said Bertrand Simon, GPS Pilot's CEO. "This award shows that our commitment to improve the overall experience of traveling, by delivering quality and expert mobile, wireless, location based applications with GPS navigation assistance, is recognized by our peers as well as our users."

Details on TripPilot™'s Award can be found on the Shareware Industry Conference web site: http://www.sic.org/2003nominees.asp

About TripPilot™

TripPilot™ is an itinerary browser to locate addresses and plan routes - North America and Europe itinerary and map coverage down to street, town and road levels with driving directions supported in 11 languages -.

TripPilot™ allows web requests directly from a Palm Powered™ device and generates personal road itineraries. Then, TripPilot™ offers several views of the requested itinerary. A route overview GPS enabled map displays the entire trip while the detailed view contains written directions plus mini geo-coded maps describing every turn. Then on the road, TripPilot™ adds the value of Global Positioning navigation assistance. The GPS icons show position and move directly on the maps to provide real-time travel assistance.

Info page: http://TripPilot.com
Evaluation copy: http://GPSpilot.com/Data/Program/TripPilot/TripPilot.zip

System requirement:

• A Palm Powered device (Palm OS 3.0 minimum): High resolution Sony Clié™, Handspring Tréo™ phone, Palm m500 series, Palm m100 series, Palm III series, Palm V series, Palm VII series, Palm i705 handheld (U.S. only), HandEra™, and IBM Workpad.
   
• For cartography access: adapted for land modem, and wireless connection. Connection via infrared, serial port (cellular, GSM, wireless network etc.), OmniSky™ network and communication devices like the Palm VII series, the Palm i705 handheld (U.S. only), and cell phones like Handspring Tréo™. You can also use the Internet connection of your PC via the cradle using PC-PDA Internet gateway software such as Mocha PPP.
   
• For GPS assistance: compliant to all National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA-0183) GPS receivers, and support for the DeLorme Earthmate™. The GPS feature is optional, and TripPilot™ is able to work with or without a GPS device connected.
   

About GPS Pilot

GPS Pilot, SARL is building innovative and exciting navigation software and solutions, for worldwide mobile users. GPS Pilot products extend the limit of held computers in the Mobile Information, Global Positioning System and Mapping technologies arena. GPS Pilot products lineup offers several Palm OS platform-based GPS applications for personal uses such as digital atlas and tracking systems for recreational activities, flight planning and in-flight navigation tools, vehicle navigation system, …
For more information please visit: http://GPSPilot.com
 

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