iVia Guides 1.0 Featuring Rick Steves Released

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MainStreet Technologies announces the immediate release of iVia Guides™ for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs.
Today's savvy traveler knows the value of packing light. For the independent or budget traveler, this often means the heaviest items in the rucksack are the guidebooks. iVia Guides brings together mobile resources for the independent traveler and puts them in your pocket to free you to navigate that foreign city like a pro.
iVia Guides features Rick Steves, author of America's best selling handbook on budget travel. The complete museum tours of London and Rome from Rick's Mona Winks are on sale now, with Paris and other cities of Europe coming soon.
The iVia Guides program consists of an application viewer, along with separate guides. From the Mona Winks print edition, guides are currently available for London and Rome, with the great museums of Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence, and Madrid to follow.
The Los Angeles Times calls Mona Winks "irreverent, entertaining and informative…for travelers who know little about art history but who want to see the best of Europe."
Also available is the Country Factbook by iVia Guides, a handy reference with maps and mega-information on 268 countries and regions of the world.
The iVia Guides viewer, Rick Steves' Mona Winks tours, and the Country Factbook can be downloaded from the Internet from PocketGear.com (http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=13251) and Handango.com (http://www.handango.com/PlatformProd...oductId=112526).
Watch for more Rick Steves and travel reference titles coming to iVia Guides!
For more information, visit the iVia Guides web site (http://iviaguides.mainstreet-tech.com).
Information on Rick Steves can be found at http://www.ricksteves.com.