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 14 carriers in 29 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), social networking and local search. The company’s flagship service, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, offers functionalities comparable to in-car systems and standalone navigation devices, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations, full-color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts with one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, gas price finder and more. TeleNav also delivers its award-winning navigation service on the TeleNav Shotgun™, a standalone GPS personal navigation device (PND) tailored specifically for business travelers. 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 9,000 customer organizations using it today.

TeleNav services are available on more than 500 wireless devices and run on most major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav’s partners include Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, deCarta, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, NII Holdings, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers, Samsung, Sanyo, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcel, Tele Atlas, Verizon Wireless and Vivo Brazil.

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.

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