

These are expected within six to 18 months of the acquisitions closing, said Teri Dahlbeck, Vicinity's senior vice-president of marketing and business development. Microsoft plans to combine Vicinity's technology with some of its own and employ its engineers to develop new applications and tools for building location-based services using MapPoint. Robust cleanness, the cleanness definition that we work with in this paper, extends this behaviour to the vicinity around the inputs and outputs close to. net services available from AT&T Wireless rely on the carrier's technology to pinpoint the location of handsets on its network. Similarly, it will be able to display driving directions to a customer site.

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net service to locate other employees and have that information displayed on the Pocket PC devices. The premier software developer for the manufacturing industry, Vicinity Manufacturing, offers the first solution in a decade built specifically for the. That software can be used to deliver driving directions and other geographical information to mobile devices.ĪT&T Wireless Services recently announced the availability of a combination phone/personal digital assistant (PDA), running Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone Edition software, and plans to offer location-based services to users of those devices.įor example, corporate users will be able to use the MapPoint. It integrates easily with Microsoft Dynamics to deliver a comprehensive software solution that. The technology Microsoft will gain from the acquisition will be integrated into the Microsoft business unit that develops location-based services software around MapPoint. Vicinity Software is a top choice among batch manufacturers.

The transaction is scheduled for completion by the first quarter of 2003 and is subject to regulatory review and approval by Vicinity shareholders. Microsoft will spend approximately $96m (£62m) for Vicinity. net software for delivering geographical information to mobile devices. Published: 12:57 Microsoft has agreed to acquire Vicinity, a company that makes software for providing location-based services, and will use the company's technology to bolster its.
