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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 1, 2007

FUGAWI SOFTWARE APPOINTS OCEANTALK AS
EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN AND S E ASIAN DISTRIBUTOR

Oceantalk PTY Ltd. to Distribute Premium Marine Software Products from Australia & Singapore

Toronto, Ontario – Fugawi Software (Northport Systems Inc.) announced today the appointment of Oceantalk PTY Ltd. as the exclusive Australian distributor of its premium marine software products. Effective August 1, 2007, Oceantalk will distribute and provide marketing and technical support for Fugawi Marine ENC software to the Australian marine electronics dealer network. Oceantalk will also distribute Fugawi Marine ENC in South East Asia on a non-exclusive basis via its Singapore office.

“We are very pleased to welcome Oceantalk into our growing international distribution network,” said Robin Martel, president of Northport Systems. “As the Australian agent for a range of marine products including AIS receivers, night vision equipment and solar instruments, as well as its strength with government agencies and technical installers, Oceantalk is well positioned to grow and strengthen the Fugawi brand within the region.”

“We are pleased to be working with Northport Systems, the innovative manufacturer of Fugawi Software,” said Robin Kydd, managing director, Oceantalk. “We believe that Fugawi Software products are set to gain widespread acceptance in the Australian and South East Asian marketplace and that there are strong synergies with our other marine electronics brands.”

In addition to existing support for S-57 and BSB format charts, Fugawi Marine ENC now offers full compatibility with existing Navionics® Gold+, Gold, Silver and HotMaps® charts. This new functionality allows boaters to use a PC at the helm or below deck for planning, navigating and monitoring their passage using the identical, industry-leading cartography that they have installed in their Navionics supported chart plotter.

Ideal for boaters who require ultimate flexibility when planning excursions or during real-time navigation, Fugawi also allows seamless upload and download of routes and waypoints to Navionics compatible chart plotters and handheld GPS receivers, available from Northstar, Raymarine, Humminbird, Garmin, Magellan, Lowrance, Eagle and more.

Offering cutting edge innovation, Fugawi Marine ENC has also recently added support for Google Earth™, via a free Plug-in. The new Plug-in allows boaters to view their current GPS location on geo-referenced Google Earth images next to actual charts in split-screen mode. This combination of detailed cartography and high-resolution aerial photography provides boaters better visual awareness, enhanced charting information and added peace of mind while boating.

To ensure added safety at sea, Fugawi Marine ENC offers greatly enhanced Automatic Identification System (AIS) integration. Valuable new features include CPA and TCPA calculation, an improved graphic display of AIS targets making it easy to determine which vessels pose a collision threat, the ability to click on a vessel for expanded AIS information and true scale vessel silhouettes. Fugawi performs dead reckoning of targets and curved course prediction based on rate of turn between active position updates.

Oceantalk will present the latest Fugawi Marine ENC GPS Navigation Software product, with support for award-winning Navionics cartography as well as Google Earth at the Sydney International Boat Show, August 2-7, 2007.

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About Fugawi Software (Northport Systems, Inc.):
Established in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, Northport Systems, Inc. now supplies products to over 80 countries. Northport’s Fugawi product line enjoys a worldwide reputation as a leader in GPS mapping software and innovative GPS applications. www.fugawi.com.

About Oceantalk PTY Ltd.
In over 18 years Oceantalk has established in the region a sales and dealer network with a focus on end user satisfaction. With offices in Sydney and Singapore Oceantalk is a leader and innovator in the distribution of electronics to the light marine market.

 

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