Mississauga, Ontario -
April 17, 2008 - Shaw Tracking, a Shaw Communications
Company (TSX: SJR.B and NYSE:SJR), the leader in mobile
communications for the Canadian Transportation industry, today
announced the plans to make Maptuit Corporation's NaviGo™
services available on the OmniVision™ mobile computing
platform.
Maptuit NaviGo is the first real-time, two way in-cab
navigation service connected via satellite or cellular
communication modes that provides professional truck drivers and
trucking companies with the industry's most accurate, reliable
and dynamic navigation data available in North America.
Maptuit's routing helps to improve driver efficiency, driver
safety and customer satisfaction. Shaw Tracking plans to offer
NaviGo on the OmniVision platform in Q3 2008.
“We continue to exercise our strategy of partnering and
making strong brand associations with like minded organizations
such as Shaw Tracking” said Jeff Papows, CEO of Maptuit. “The Maptuit NaviGo solution and Shaw Tracking's OmniVision
platform bring North America's first, true real-time navigation
experience to drivers and better fleet management through the
NaviGo internet portal. We are very excited to work with Shaw
Tracking and to provide its customers with a real-time
navigation solution.”
The OmniVision platform enables fleets to enjoy a host of new
features and benefits while using value-added services available
for current Shaw Tracking solutions. Advanced text-to-speech
capability improves driver safety and productivity by allowing
drivers to listen to and replay messages, eliminating the need
to pull over and stop the vehicle to read a text message. The
platform also features an integrated, color touch screen and a
remote control device, providing drivers quick access to
critical information.
“We are excited to work with Maptuit to make the NaviGo
service available to our customers,” said Mike Ham, Vice
President Business Service, Shaw Tracking. “By working with
industry-leading service providers to offer their solutions on
the OmniVision platform, we ensure that our customers can draw
from a wide pool of expertise and choose the best possible
solution for their needs.”
About Maptuit Corporation
Founded in 1999, Maptuit Corporation is the leading
provider of location information web services for consumer and transportation markets.
Built around the industry's most sophisticated and up-to-date model of the North American
road network, Maptuit has developed its services to support the transportation, tracking and traffic markets.
For more information please visit www.maptuit.com. Maptuit, RealTraffic, MyCommute, KeyRoute and other names or
logos identifying the services of Maptuit Corporation are trademarks or service marks of Maptuit Corporation.
About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw Satellite Services is owned and operated by Shaw
Communications Inc. Shaw Communications is a diversified
communications company whose core business is providing
broadband cable television, High–Speed Internet, Digital Phone,
telecommunications services (through Shaw Business Solutions)
and satellite direct–to–home services (through Star Choice) to
3.1 million customers. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New
York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index
(Symbol: TSX – SJR.B, NYSE – SJR).
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