Cyber cabs take to the streets as Interactive Taxi and Progress Software team up

Added: (Mon Oct 31 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Passenger eExperience re-defined with fully-featured, high-performance Internet portals in very backseat

Slough: 31 October 2005 — Boring taxicab rides are a thing of the past, thanks to Interactive Taxi and Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS). These two companies have teamed up to create a new kind of Internet portal designed for uset in the backseat of taxicabs. Initial deployments of hundreds of these new "cybercabs" have begun in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

Passengers can now access the most accurate, up to date news from major national and local outlets, get fully localised listings of special events and happenings in and around the city, book restaurant and show reservations, buy movie tickets and pay their cab fare with a credit or debit card.right from the back seat of the taxicab. They can also access real-time traffic information, emergency news and Amber Alerts, GPS tracking and mapping information, as well as advertisements and public service announcements.

And, the performance of the Interactive Taxi portals will make passengers think they are hooked up directly to a broadband Internet connection, thanks to Progress’s innovative data synchronisation and database replication technology: DataXtend™ Replication Engine (RE). DataXtend works "in the background" to eliminate the impact cellular data networks have on application performance, enabling lightening-fast access to Internet content, even when no connection is available.

The initial deployment of the Interactive Taxi portals included 600 taxicabs in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

This technology is now available here with the UK launch of DataXtend RE from Progress Software.

About Interactive Taxi
Interactive Taxi is a subsidiary of Targeted Media Partners, LLC. Targeted Media is an emerging media company committed to developing the types of technologies that allow marketers to utilise the benefits of sight, sound and motion, as well as interactivity, to make their out-of-home messages timely, relevant and compelling to consumers. More information can be found at http://www.tmp-llc.com.

About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (PSC) (Nasdaq: PRGS) supplies industry-leading technologies for all aspects of the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. PSC, headquartered in Bedford, Mass., operates through the Progress OpenEdge and Progress Real Time divisions, Sonic Software Corporation and DataDirect Technologies. The Progress Real Time Division provides event stream processing, data management, data access, and synchronisation products to enable the real-time enterprise. PSC can be reached at http://www.progress.com or +44 (0)1753 216300.

Further information from Salli Roskilly, Saffron Communications Ltd
Tel: 01763 208 708 e:salli@saffroncoms.com