His firm has long-term contracts with both Navteq and Tele Atlas, but he's keeping his eyes open.
India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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Smaller players are hoping for a larger third player to come in and recreate what Navteq and Tele Atlas have built.
Gruber and Wheeler like Tele Nordeste Celular, the leading cellular player in Brazil's northeast region, with 2 million subscribers.
In fast-growing cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix, Tele Atlas needs to process changes to as many as 40% of the region's road miles every year, says Tele Atlas Vice President Jonathon Husby.
Zoom Position Memory, ideal for analyzing sports plays, allows quick switching among three angles of view - Full Wide, Full Tele, and a user-settable position in between.
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It then provides traffic data, forecasts and services in 35 countries to clients including Audi, BMW, Ford, MapQuest, Microsoft, Tele Atlas, Toyota and Vodafone.
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While Morgan might be feeling a little self-conscious on the tele, his wit and journalist instincts make him a premier Twitterato.
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TomTom and Garmin made rival bids for Tele Atlas this year, with TomTom likely sealing the deal with a 2.9 billion offer in November.
Anthony Garotinho, a football commentator turned tele-evangelist, and his wife Rosinha, who between them governed the state with a startling incompetence from 1999 until 2006, are the most recent examples.
Police union leader Christophe Crepin told French TV news channel i-tele Saturday that Abdelkader Merah and his girlfriend were moved early Saturday from Toulouse to the headquarters of the DCRI, the French counter intelligence agency, in Levallois-Perret, near Paris.
She's landed a cable commitment from Tele- Communications, Inc. and an offer to raise big bucks from Morgan Stanley.
On her congressional site, supporters can sign up for tele-town halls, download podcasts and view clips of her in action on the House floor and cable television.
Instead of paying large sums for the license and the infrastructure, Telia has a 3G joint venture with Tele 2, a license-winning competitor, thus sharing the risk.
Two hundred and fifty hospitals from Alaska to Virginia have installed a version of the tele-I.
Denard's distinctive vehicle is a mobile mapping van owned by Tele Atlas, the Dutch firm that, along with Navteq and Google, has spent the better part of a decade building minutely detailed geographic databases used by navigation devices and Web sites.
Before Washingtonians could fully digest the election results in early November, there was a mild tremor in the tele-cosmos that could have a significant impact on broadband deployment and hence the U.S. economy.
"We're moving into an era when everybody will know where they are, will know what is around them and will know how to get where they want to go, " says Tele Atlas founder Alain De Taeye.
Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.
Tele Atlas pulls information from lots of sources, including states' departments of transportation and utilities, and uses algorithms to arbitrate conflicts.
Other technologies enabled by Tele Atlas' ultra-accurate map will include lane departure warnings for drowsy drivers and adaptive headlights that know corners are coming.
We need to relax tele-medicine restrictions, again technology exists today to monitor, do follow up check ups and other appointments without having the patient come to the office.
Tele-retailing giant HSN asked if I would be interested in designing a line just for them and then appear on TV to sell it.
Other "tele-romance" devices that are still in the prototype phase are even more science fictional--and bizarre.
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