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13. September 2005

Marco Polo provides travel-guide information for new GARMIN Navigation device “nüvi” – the Ultimate Travel Companion

Ostfildern near Stuttgart, 13 September 2005. Garmin is the latest prestigious manufacturer to opt for the contents from Marco Polo, Europe’s most successful travel guide series. The travel guide content available for the mobile navigation product “nüvi” comes from Falk Marco Polo Interactive GmbH (FM-I). The company markets and sells content from Falk, Marco Polo, Baedeker, Varta Führer and DuMont from the MairDumont portfolio.
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11. August 2005

The car brand OPEL places its trust in the European Travel Guide from Marco Polo: content from the No. 1 travel guide is integrated into the new vehicle navigation system

Ostfildern near Stuttgart, 11 August 2005. The world-famous vehicle manufacturer Opel has chosen content from Marco Polo, Europe’s most successful range of travel guides, for its new generation of navigation systems. The digital travel guide is available for the DVD screen navigation system on the Astra, Zafira, Vectra, Signum and Meriva models. The content comes from Falk Marco Polo Interactive GmbH (FM-I). The company distributes content from Falk, Marco Polo, Baedeker, Varta Führer and DuMont from the MairDumont portfolio.
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9. March 2005

Falk Marco Polo Interactive is collaborating with THB Bury – a new on-board navigation system for the haulage industry is being presented at CeBIT

Ostfildern near Stuttgart, 9 March 2005. The haulage industry is constantly faced with new challenges. In order to be able to work in a competitive manner, the use of the latest technology even in heavy goods vehicles has become essential. Falk Marco Polo Interactive – a company belonging to MairDumont, the European market leader for travel media and leisure media – and Bury GmbH & Co. KG (Löhne) have developed an innovative new product for the navigation market. The new permanently installed complete NaviPLUS/NaviTRUCK system (hardware and software) for commercial goods traffic in Germany will be available starting from June 2005 and is currently being presented to the public for the first time at CeBIT 2005.
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11. March 2004

With the eContent service, Falk is starting a new service with POI data for offboard navigation and location-based services

Whereas the producers and operators of navigation and location-based services have previously always themselves had to integrate POI data in your services, in future Falk Marco Polo Interactive (FMI) will make this task considerably more straightforward for you by providing the Falk eContent service. Regardless of which basic data the service provider uses in his mobile services, it is easy to retrieve the POI information relating to the current location in 21 Western European and Northern European countries and in five languages by XML.

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8. March 2004

Falk presents a greatly expanded content database "Q1/2004" for manufacturers of navigation systems – with partners such as BMW, Siemens VDO and PTV / New cooperation with PTV

The market for navigation-system contents has taken off. Whereas in recent years the digitisation of the roads in Germany was the primary concern for manufacturers of cars and navigation systems, more exacting demands are now being placed on the next generation of navigation systems. These include the sophisticated response to questions such as "Where at my destination can I enjoy a good medium-priced Italian meal?" or "Which bar is still open right now, which club is worth visiting?", which signifies that navigation systems are advancing to become, among other things, a source of advice when it comes to nightlife.

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