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WeatherBug Elite, Premium Weather App, Now Available for Palm Pre Smartphones

Germantown, MD — WeatherBug^®, the leading provider of live, local weather information for consumer and professional users, today announced that its premium weather application for mobile devices, WeatherBug Elite, is now available on the Palm® webOS™ platform. This ad-free app integrates seamlessly with the multi-touch interface of the Palm Pre™ phone, as well as the soon-to-be-available Palm Pixi™ phone, delivering premium weather, including such features as current conditions, radar animation and severe weather alerts.

“WeatherBug is excited to bring our top-notch weather app to Palm webOS users,” said Chris Brozenick, Vice President and General Manager of WeatherBug Mobile. “Designed to take advantage of the unique Palm webOS multi-touch interface, WeatherBug Elite enables users to quickly navigate throughout the app with a simple flick and gives users what they want…current local weather at their fingertips.”

WeatherBug Elite for Palm webOS is an ad-free application that includes advanced weather features for viewing local weather conditions for your location and thousands of locations around the world. It includes the following key features:

• Current local weather conditions
• 7-day and hourly forecasts
• Satellite, Temperature, Humidity, Air Pressure, Wind Speed, Forecast Hi and Forecast Lo detailed map overlays
• Radar Animation*
• Severe Weather Alerts* (NWS alerts)
• Unlimited saved locations
• GPS "Track Me" will update weather conditions based on the location of the user
  (* U.S. locations only)

WeatherBug Elite is available in the Palm App Catalog on Palm webOS smartphones for an introductory one-time fee of $1.99. For more information on this and other WeatherBug mobile apps, please visit http://www.weatherbug.com/mobile.

More information about Palm Pre and Palm Pixi is available at www.palm.com.

About WeatherBug
WeatherBug (http://www.weatherbug.com and http://www.weatherbugprofessional.com) precisely monitors, organizes and disseminates global weather information. As a trusted source for live, local dynamic data, WeatherBug empowers society with weather intelligence for making more informed decisions. Millions of consumers and professional organizations, including the National Weather Service, rely on WeatherBug to plan daily activities, safeguard lives and improve business operations. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (http://www.aws.com)