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NAVIGON First to Introduce Zagat Content to Personal Navigation Devices

Top U.S. Restaurants, Hotels, Resorts and Spas, Attractions, Golf Courses and Nightlife Available for 70+ US Cities

LAS VEGAS and CHICAGO, Jan. 8 -- (CES Booth #6011) -- NAVIGON Inc., the leading navigation software provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Zagat Survey to enhance the comprehensive point of interest (POI) information available on products directed by NAVIGON's MobileNavigator (MN) Premium(TM) software. As the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based dining, travel and leisure information, Zagat content will help consumers make smart, immediate decisions that fit their lifestyle needs.

Turn-by-turn driving directions, packaged with the most comprehensive listings available for personal navigation devices (PND), make this partnership an important industry first. Millions of consumers worldwide rely on Zagat Survey's ratings and reviews to make informed destination choices, and integrated with products Directed by NAVIGON, makes this best selling content even more accessible in the context of real-time travel.

"Zagat Survey aims to make our content available to consumers via every platform and technology they may find useful," said Nina Zagat, co-founder of Zagat Survey. "The NAVIGON partnership is another important step towards our goal of delivering trusted, reliable information to consumers when they want it and how they want it."

The five destination guides NAVIGON plans to incorporate into its MN Premium software include Zagat Survey's Top U.S. Hotels, Resorts and Spas, America's Top Restaurants, America's Top Golf Courses, and Nightlife in 70+ US Cities/Locales. Combined, these guides offer recommendations for nearly 25,000 top destinations across America in the familiar Zagat format.

"We are excited to introduce the Zagat information into products Directed by NAVIGON," said Andreas Hecht, NAVIGON's General Manager for the Americas. "Offering rich leisure and lifestyle information to consumers in some of the most popular cities in North America will provide additional value and differentiation to NAVIGON's roster of PND manufacturers, as well as offer a greater navigation experience for consumers."

Zagat information will be available first on the new P'9611 by Porsche Design Group, a best-in-class portable navigation device for the discriminating consumer. By Summer 2007, NAVIGON will begin incorporating Zagat content across the portfolio of devices that leverage the company's MN Premium solution.

About Zagat Survey, LLC

Zagat Survey is the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based leisure content. With more than 250,000 surveyors, Zagat Survey rates and reviews restaurants, hotels, nightlife, movies, music, golf, shopping and a range of other entertainment categories. Zagat content is available in print, on the Web, on the Palm and Windows Mobile operating systems, on BlackBerry, on mobile phones, and on TV. For more information, visit http://www.zagat.com/ .

About NAVIGON

NAVIGON creates navigation software solutions for some of the world's best-known brands in consumer electronics. NAVIGON makes the software that drives navigation products from Sony, Delphi, Fujitsu-Siemens, and more. Founded in Germany in 1991, NAVIGON invented the world's first mobile GPS navigation product-and consistently breaks new ground with its award-winning MobileNavigator line of navigation software. NAVIGON is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany; NAVIGON USA headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit http://www.navigonusa.com/ .