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Microsoft Corp. provides MSN Direct, an advanced location-based service for navigation devices that can help consumers reduce commute time and gas costs. Leading navigation device manufacturers such as Garmin, Pioneer, Goodyear, Alpine, Kenwood Corp., Mio Technology Corp. and Nextar Inc., along with automotive manufacturers BMW AG, Scion and Suzuki Motor Corp., are offering MSN Direct-enabled navigation devices and solutions. MSN Direct now provides three times more traffic coverage and has also added flight status information and Doppler weather maps. These new services will be offered on select MSN Direct-compatible navigation devices and will expand upon what is already an exceptional array of features offered by MSN Direct, including Smart Traffic, weather, gas prices, news headlines, stock quotes, local events, movie times and Send to GPS using Live Search Maps.

Navteq, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, is working with the Broadcaster Traffic Consortium, LLC (BTC) as the provider of real-time traffic and other location-based information for portable navigation devices and automobile in-dash systems via HD Radio™ technology. The high bandwidth capacity of HD technology allows NAVTEQ and the BTC to deliver high-quality, up-to-the-minute information including traffic flow and points of interest to consumers when and where they need it most.

Clear Channel’s Total Traffic Network (CCTN) provides RDS-TMC traffic content to 130 million people in 49 U.S. markets and has announced new real-time traffic services over HD Radio™ channels called HD-TMC. The traffic data on the HD service is a combination of the Total Traffic Network and INRIX's floating car data, monitored by Clear Channel's local traffic data producers. Even in the largest metropolitan areas, real-time traffic information is transmitted in less than a minute, providing a quick, reliable way for drivers to get where they need to go safely. CCTTN provides current traffic info for 125 metro areas in four countries.

In one of the most revolutionary moves since Frank Conrad introduced radio broadcasting in 1919, iBiquity Digital Corporation has created HD Radio™ Technology to bring AM and FM radio into the digital 21st century. This breakthrough technology allows digital radio signals to ride the same airwaves as analog AM and FM radio broadcasts, bringing crystal-clear sound from any radio station to the listening public along with new audio channels to FM and wireless data services. The HD Radio™ In-Band, On-Channel (IBOC) system is the only FCC-approved system for AM and FM. It provides for true, end-to-end digital broadcasting within the existing spectrum and allows with continued analog broadcasts to legacy receivers.

LG Innotek is one of world’s leading technology and manufacturing companies. LG Innotek leads the drive to develop technology in cutting-edge electronics components and explore various markets. LG Innotek has eight core businesses (tuners, motors, power modules, LCD modules, camera modules, LEDs, MCMs, and Car Electronic Components) in four high-potential market categories (mobile, display, network, and car electronics). Notably, the company is further upgrading the technological levels of its competitive fields of digital tuners and small motors, backed by its solid market position and competitiveness. The fields of power modules and wireless telecommunications currently dominate the markets, aided by leading technological prowess. In addition, the company has boosted the competitiveness of its component device material fields of LEDs and MCMs, as well as venturing into the car electronic components market, thereby endeavoring to secure future growth engines.

Alps Electric is one of the world’s leading manufacturing companies. Alps Electric boasts diverse core technologies and specialized technologies for advanced manufacturing. These include a wide array of technologies accumulated through the development and production of electronic parts, such as design technologies that respond to functional requirements at high levels, die technologies that form the basis of highly reliable products, and MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) and JISSO (mounting) technologies for ultra-fine electronic circuits and high-precision devices. By refining these technologies and combining them at advanced levels, Alps continues to create devices that offer advanced functions. This development concept is imbued in all of Alps products, including human-machine interfaces designed to optimize the relationship between people and machines, man-to-machine interfaces that connect devices at enhanced levels, and broadcasting and communications products.