Webraska Opens Detroit Operations

    DETROIT, April 20 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- Webraska, the
worldwide provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, has
announced the opening of its Detroit/Novi sales office to serve automotive OEM
and first-tier supplier customers throughout North America.
    As an innovator and technology enabler for real-time mobile applications
on a global scale, Webraska has partnered with numerous global telecoms and
technology providers, including IBM, Nortel, VoiceStream and many others, to
assist them in combining real-time distributed navigation with any location-
based applications.
    "Opening our Detroit office shows our commitment to the North American
market," said Bruno Bourguet, General Manager for Webraska's automotive
division.
    "The telematics market is set for explosive growth," Bourguet added, "as
OEMs are looking to connect in real time with their customers.  Wireless
navigation is an essential part of the telematics value proposition.  We look
forward to working with North American OEMs and their partners by offering our
wireless navigation technology, which is already being used by major telecom
customers across the globe."
    Focusing on telematics for the rapidly changing automotive market,
Webraska's Detroit office will be providing the company's expertise in Call
Centers, its Personal Navigation API(TM) and Wireless Navigation Platform,
based around Webraska's patented IbDN(R) technology, to help OEMs integrate
the many pieces of the real-time wireless navigation puzzle.

    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(R) (Internet-based Distributed Navigation)
patented technology and its Personal Navigation Suite(TM) of valued-added
services are solving mobile users' needs everyday, increasing revenues,
customer loyalty and brand recognition for leading service providers around
the world, including SFR, TIM, Vizzavi, KPN, Belgacom, 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 & 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 Centres,
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 and Acunia.
    The company is headquartered in Poissy, France and has offices in London,
Brussels, Madrid, Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, Tokyo, Singapore, Melbourne,
Montreal and Detroit.
    For more information visit: http://www.webraska.com

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