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Vindigo Wins BREW™ Award for "Best Use of BREW" at QUALCOMM's Second Annual Developers Conference

Vindigo Provides Phone-Based Maps and Walking/Driving Directions, Enables Users with BREW-Enabled Handsets to Find the Best Places to Eat, Shop and Play in Major Cities

NEW YORK, June 05, 2002 - Vindigo, the leading developer of personal navigation applications for mobile devices, today announced that it has been selected by QUALCOMM as the winner of the "Best Use of BREW" award. Vindigo for BREW, currently offered by Verizon Wireless, has the same look and feel as the company's popular PDA-based application while taking advantage of wireless connectivity for real-time information and unlimited access to Vindigo content. It was developed for QUALCOMM'S Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW) platform.

Verizon Wireless, the only carrier in North America to offer BREW-enabled handsets to consumers, chose Vindigo as its flagship location-based service.

Vindigo for BREW has all the core features that have made Vindigo successful on other platforms: comprehensive local information on where to eat, shop and play in over 25 major metropolitan areas, complete with full-color maps, ratings and reviews from brand-name content providers. And with the BREW platform, Vindigo is for the first time able to offer driving directions to any Vindigo listing.

"We are delighted to accept this award and continue to be enthusiastic supporters of the BREW platform," said Jason Devitt, chief executive officer of Vindigo. "Today, over 500,000 consumers rely on Vindigo on their Palm Powered or Pocket PC handheld computer to find what they need, wherever they are, and the BREW platform finally allows us to deliver a similar user experience to wireless phones."

"Vindigo has a true understanding of the BREW platform's extensive capabilities," said Jan Lezny, senior director of developer and OEM relations, QUALCOMM Internet Services. "With this location-based service, Vindigo has clearly demonstrated what the BREW platform can help developers bring to wireless carriers and ultimately to consumers."

About Vindigo
Vindigo is the leading developer of personal navigation applications for delivering location-based content and services to wireless and mobile devices. Vindigo's proprietary technology and network of content partners enables it to offer compelling and comprehensive location-based applications to carriers and consumers, via Palm Powered™ handheld computers, Pocket PC computers, and Internet-enabled mobile phones including BREW-enabled handsets. Vindigo allows people to explore, enjoy, and connect to the world around them.

The BREW Awards
The BREW Awards presented at QUALCOMM's BREW 2002 Developers Conference recognize excellence, innovation and individual achievements by application developers using the BREW platform. Awards were given to a developer and/or application provider in each of the following award categories: Mastering Technology, Most Innovative, Best Use of BREW, Best Content, Best Use of Graphics/Audio and Carrier's Choice. All BREW developers that currently offer commercial applications, available through KTF in Korea, KDDI in Japan and Verizon Wireless in the United States, and/or applications that have passed TRUE BREW™ testing were eligible for a BREW Award.

QUALCOMM's BREW 2002 Developers Conference, the second annual BREW conference, is designed to create an educational and business development environment in which developers and key industry players from around the world converge to explore the complete technical and business solution enabled by QUALCOMM's BREW platform.

About QUALCOMM
QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's business areas include CDMA chipsets and system software; technology licensing; the BREW platform; QChat™ push-to-talk technology; Eudora® e-mail software; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar™ system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS® and OmniExpress®. QUALCOMM owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. QUALCOMM has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 100 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.

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QUALCOMM, OmniTRACS, OmniExpress and Eudora are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. BREW, BREW SDK and QChat are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Globalstar is a trademark of Loral QUALCOMM Satellite Services, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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