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PocketThis Integrates Webraska's Worldwide Navigation Services; Joint Offerings to Provide Enhanced Navigation and Mapping Services

    LAS VEGAS--March 21, 2001--Webraska, the worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, announces an agreement in which PocketThis will integrate Webraska's Personal Navigation Application Programming Interface(TM) (PN-API) into their services.
    PocketThis users will now have access to Webraska's worldwide, navigation, mapping and traffic information services, as well as the ability to capture any information from their PC or the Internet, and then save, access and act on it from their mobile phone or other wireless device.
    PocketThis users may retrieve addresses and maps on their mobile devices, as well as access turn-by-turn directions, and perform searches for nearby attractions using Webraska's Global Navigation Server(TM) (GNS).
    "Webraska's direction and mapping capabilities complement PocketThis services and applications to bring together a whole product mobile solution for critical user needs," said Nancy Benovich Gilby, PocketThis President and CEO. "With Webraska as our mapping and routing partner in the U.K., PocketThis users will benefit from the leading navigational technology."
    With this partnership, wireless users will receive simple-to-use and powerful applications, such as storing, retrieving and acting on information on the Internet. Items, such as addresses, phone numbers, reservations and driving directions, can be retrieved from phones or wireless devices by the touch of a single button.
    "PocketThis provides a unique application that could be used by all wireless users," said Charles Nahas, General Manager, Webraska North America. "The ability to send address information to a pocket file, while on the move, is a powerful capability that should see widespread deployment."
    For more information, visit www.webraska.com.

    About Webraska

    Webraska is the worldwide provider of wireless navigation, spatial searching, mapping and traffic information services and technologies for telecom operators and car manufacturers.
    Turning mobile devices into worldwide personal navigation systems, Webraska's revolutionary IbDN(TM) (Internet-based Distributed Navigation) patented technology and its Personal Navigation Suite(TM) of value-added services are solving mobile users needs every day, increasing revenues, customer loyalty and brand recognition for leading service providers around the world, including SFR, TIM, Vizzavi, KPM, Begacom, Airtel, Orange, ADAC, VoiceStream and M1.
    Helping carriers leverage their UMTS, Wireless Internet and Location-Technology assets, Webraska also offers the Personal Navigation API(TM) that allows application developers to launch, in a matter of hours, anywhere in most of Europe, North America and, increasingly, in the Asia/Pacific region, "location and navigation-enabled" wireless applications (location-based services, m-commerce, games, city guides, fleet management, mobile Extranet, etc.). It is available directly to all developers via Webraska's ASP Centers and via licensees of the Global Navigation Server(TM) platform and Global Navigation Database(TM).
    Webraska's technology has already been chosen by industry leaders, including IBM, Nortel, Oracle, Openwave, Alcatel, Sagem, Schlumberger, SignalSoft, Wireless Car, PSA, Cellpoint, CT Motion, CPS, Blue Impact, and In Fusio.
    The company is headquartered in Poissy, France, and has offices in London, Brussels, Madrid, Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, Tokyo, Singapore, Melbourne and Montreal.

    About PocketThis, Inc.

    PocketThis, Inc. (www.pocketthis.com), based in Oakland, Calif., is pioneering wireless solutions based on customer needs. Instead of merely reformatting Web content for mobile devices, PocketThis -- through its wireless carrier customers -- allows users to capture information from the Internet or other sources, store it in a "pocket" and then act on it from a phone, PDA or desktop.
    PocketThis software permits the integration of user-selected content from the Internet or other sources from mobile devices. Content stored in a "Pocket" is live, automatically updated without synching; intelligent, anticipates a user's additional needs; and actionable, allows one-touch actions to capitalize on information in the Pocket.

    Editor's Note: Webraska's executives are available for commentary. Interviews may be scheduled by contacting Lisa Makarchuk at McKinney Advertising & Public Relations at (216) 621-5133 or lmakarchuk@mckinneyad.com.