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GyPSii platform wins NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge award and announces major new partnerships worldwide



    GyPSii, the world´s leading geo-location and social networking
    service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, received
    highly sought after industry acclaim at this year´s Mobile World
    Congress in Barcelona, when it was a winner in the NAVTEQ LBS
    Challenge, a contest in which over 300 companies competed.

    The award coincided with GyPSii´s live launch at the event,
    following a three month public beta trial with users worldwide. The
    honour further positions GyPSii as the leading player in the emerging
    mobile social networking and LBS market.

    The worldwide contest, which has established a reputation as the
    premier event in the location-based services (LBS) industry,
    challenges application developers to build innovative location-based
    services which work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld
    devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps.

    Over 316 companies registered for this year´s Challenge globally,
    of which twelve advanced to the final judging in the European
    division. The finalists represented a broad spectrum of wireless
    applications and were selected based on commercial feasibility,
    functionality, ease of use and design. The final judging panel, which
    included executives from Autodesk, Deutsche Telekom, GPS and Co,
    Innovacom, Nokia, O2, Telecom Italia, Truffle Ventures, Vodafone, and
    WebMobility, based their decisions on the same key criteria.

    Nokia has globally sponsored the Challenge for the third
    consecutive year and together with Autodesk in 2008.

    "This has been a very exciting time for GyPSii," said Dan Harple,
    CEO of GyPSii. "In September 2007 we signaled our intent to become the
    leading global platform for the convergence of search, location and
    personal content as a new form of geo-social networking. Winning a
    NAVTEQ LBS Challenge award is satisfying because of the intense
    competition, coupled with the expertise of the panel of
    industry-leading judges. It means a lot to our whole team."

    He continued; "We are now recognised as the preeminent industry
    player with a rapidly growing global GyPSii community. We have
    visitors from more than 55 countries and we continue to lay down our
    global footprint across multiple handsets, geographies and affinity
    communities with major strategic partnerships worldwide. People can
    expect to hear more significant news from GyPSii in the coming
    months."

    GyPSii generated considerable industry buzz at the Mobile World
    Congress. CNN´s on-the-ground reporter, Adrian Finighan interviewed Mr
    Harple and posted on his CNN blog that GyPSii is: "a mobile social
    networking platform which, I´m willing to bet, will soon be as big a
    phenomenon as Facebook. Bigger, perhaps."

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    In February, GyPSii made a series of major announcements,
    significantly increasing its global presence. In China, GyPSii
    announced partnerships with China Unicom, one of the two mobile
    operators in China with more than 150 million subscribers and Shanghai
    Rannuo to launch its GyPSii service for the 2008 Olympic Games in
    Beijing. Additional to this was the news of GyPSii´s partnership with
    Chinese device manufacturer Dopod to provide a range of location-based
    information and services to members of its Dopod Club community.

    GyPSii also moved into India, the world´s second largest and
    fastest growing mobile market, and announced an agreement with
    Broadway Pvt. Ltd. (www.broadwayindia.in/), to offer the full suite of
    GyPSii services to India´s 233 million mobile subscribers.

    The GyPSii application is already fully compatible with Windows
    Mobile phones, the Blackberry range from RIM and Nokia´s flagship
    consumer smartphones. GyPSii recently announced web support for
    Apple´s iPhone and continues to add new devices on a regular basis.

    As well as extending its product range, GyPSii has also reached
    beyond English speaking markets and is available in ten languages
    including Korean, Russian and two forms of Chinese.

    To sign up to GyPSii users can visit the company´s website
    (www.gypsii.com) or from a phone browser at http://gypsii.com/m.

    About GyPSii

    GyPSii is the market-leading mobile lifestyle application,
    connecting people, places and communities across networks and devices.
    GyPSii provides a geo-location social networking platform and services
    for mobile, web & set-top box devices, and is headquartered in
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (www.gypsii.com).

    (C) 2008 GyPSii Inc. All rights reserved.

    About NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge

    First launched in North America in October 2003, the Global LBS
    Challenge is focused on driving the development and visibility of
    innovative navigation solutions for wireless devices. From wireless
    business applications to sports, travel and security, integrating the
    accuracy and richness of NAVTEQ digital map data facilitates the
    timely evolution of the next wave LBS using global positioning
    satellite (GPS) technology. Industry validation of the Global LBS
    Challenge for the category overall encouraged NAVTEQ to host the
    judging and presentations for the first time in Europe, North America
    and Asia this year.