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TeleNav Wins Two Gold Mobile Star Awards for Location-Based Services
Receives top rating in consumer and enterprise software categories
Sunnyvale, Calif. – October 22, 2007 – TeleNav, Inc., the first company to launch a GPS service for cell phones in the U.S., today announced it has won two Gold Mobile Star Awards™ from MobileVillage®, the 14-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology.
The annual Mobile Star Awards aim to honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments and leaders in mobile and wireless technology. Winners are chosen by subscribers to Go Mobile®, MobileVillage’s free online newsletter sent to technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers and top tech journalists.
TeleNav has been recognized with the following awards:
• Gold Star, Consumer Software: Navigation / Location-Based Services, for TeleNav GPS Navigator™ service
• Gold Star, Enterprise Software: GPS / Location-Based Services, for TeleNav Track™ service
TeleNav GPS Navigator provides turn-by turn, GPS-enabled voice and on-screen driving directions for mobile devices. The most recent version incorporates social-networking components such as location sharing and business reviews. The service also features real-time traffic alerts and one-click rerouting with an estimated time of arrival (ETA) always displayed.
TeleNav Track leverages GPS and wireless technologies to provide a complete mobile workforce management system. It includes a variety of essential business management features, including GPS-enabled tracking / reporting and navigation, wireless job dispatching, flexible wireless forms and wireless barcode scanning.
This year’s Mobile Star Awards winners are posted online at http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm.
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“The location-based services industry has seen tremendous growth and innovation over the past year, both in the consumer and enterprise markets,” said HP Jin, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. “To be honored by MobileVillage readers for our innovation and leadership is testament to the creativity and dedication of the TeleNav team. We feel this award further validates our position as the emerging leader in consumer navigation services.”
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About TeleNav
TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first company to launch a GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the United States. TeleNav is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS), including GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL) and local search. The company’s flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, but offers a superior experience with functionality such as automatically updated maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest price fuel finder and more.
TeleNav offers its services internationally through leading wireless carriers including Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest, SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile Austria, China Mobile and Vivo Brazil. TeleNav GPS Navigator is also available in 15 countries in Europe. TeleNav partners include Research In Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, deCarta, INRIX, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings. For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.
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