TeleNav Press Release

TeleNav, Inc. Named Finalist in the Emerging Technology Award

Nov 13, 2006

TeleNav, Inc. today announced that it is one of three Mobile Technology finalists in the Emerging Technology Awards (ETA).

Santa Clara, CA – Nov. 13, 2006 - TeleNav, Inc. today announced that it is one of three Mobile Technology finalists in the Emerging Technology Awards (ETA). Aimed at celebrating tomorrow’s leaders today, the Emerging Technology Awards honor Silicon Valley’s spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The three finalists, along with the winner for each category, will be recognized at an awards ceremony Tuesday, November 14, at Palo Alto’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, located at 4290 El Camino Real. The event will kick off with a cocktail reception at 5:45pm, with the awards beginning at 8:00pm.

ETA categories include biotechnology, collaboration, customer relationship management, entertainment, green technology, medical devices, mobile technology, security, supply chain management, internet telephony and wireless. In addition, a Venture Capital firm will receive a special vision award. The awards were created by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

“We are excited to be recognized as a leading emerging company in technology-rich Silicon Valley,” said H.P. Jin, president, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. This helps solidify our position as a leader whose technology has the ability to profoundly impact both peoples’ lives and their businesses.”

For more information on Emerging Technology Award tickets, call (408) 299-1871 or email cspiller@bizjournals.com

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal is an award-winning newspaper in Silicon Valley. Published each Friday, it reaches more than 64,700 business executives throughout the world’s most dynamic business region. For more than two decades, The Business Journal has identified and chronicled the emerging companies and trends that fuel the valley.

Media Contacts

Mary Beth Lowell
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About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first to launch a cell phone GPS system in the United States. Deployed by 15 carriers in 21 countries, TeleNav is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company's solutions are available in four continents, including North and South America, Asia and Europe.

TeleNav's solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL), social networking and local search. The company's flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, offering a superior experience with functionality, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest-price fuel finder and more. TeleNav's enterprise application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over 8,000 customer organizations using it today.

TeleNav products are available on more than 200 wireless devices and run on all major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav's partners include Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest, SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Austria, China Mobile, Vivo Brazil, NII Holdings, 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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