Wherify Wireless Expands Product Offering to Include New Location-Enabled Battery Pack; With Wherify's 'SMART-PAK' Location-enabled Battery Pack, Consumers, Fleet Managers, Public Safety Officials and Others Can Use Their Mobile Phones To Wirelessly Transmit Location Information That Can Be Viewed Anywhere In the World Via the Internet.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Wherify Wireless, Inc., developers of end-to-end nationwide wireless location-based products and services, announced today the launch of their new "SMART-PAK" battery pack that enables consumers, fleet managers, public safety officials, and others to turn their mobile phones into wireless personal location devices. Wherify made the announcement at the Cellular Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. & Internet Association (CTIA (1) See CompTIA.(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. ) trade show, CTIA WIRELESS 2002, currently being held in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . With the Wherify SMART-PAK installed on either Nokia 5100 or 6100 series mobile phones, the user's location information can be transmitted over wireless networks to a Web interface that reveals their location within feet on a street and aerial map in about a minute. Once the location information is transmitted, users can then easily identify the location of their mobile assets, loved-ones, sales force or public safety personnel. And in the event of an emergency, help can be dispatched to the users location using accurate location information given to the emergency dispatchers. "We are excited to expand our wireless location-based product offering into other applications, uses and markets," said Timothy Neher, founder and president of Wherify Wireless. "Now, in addition to our popular GPS Personal Locator LOCATOR, civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2d. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3d. , Wherify offers personal location-based services that can be applied to just about anyone, anywhere, anytime." Wherify Wireless will be demonstrating their new SMART-PAK and GPS Personal Locator during CTIA WIRELESS 2002 at booth #3721. The show runs through March 20. Wherify's GPS Personal Locator and SMART-PAK products are made possible through the convergence of Global Positioning System Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use. (GPS) and digital wireless technologies -- in combination with Wherify's patented technology -- offering a tested and proven personal safety and location solution 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With Wherify's GPS Personal Locator for Children, parents, whether at work, home, or traveling, can use the Internet or any phone to quickly identify their children's location, within feet, in about a minute. In the event of an emergency, either the child or parent can request an emergency 911 response and local police will be dispatched. Wherify is accepting pre-orders now for its GPS Personal Locator at 877-LOCATE1, or at the Wherify Web site, http://www.wherify.com/. Wherify is also developing a wide-range of other end-to-end location-based products designed for personal safety, asset tracking, m-commerce, electronics, handsets, criminal justice, fleet management, and pet care markets. About Wherify Wireless Wherify Wireless, Inc. is a privately-held developer of patented and award-winning wireless location products and services for child safety, parental supervision, personal protection, Alzheimer and memory loss supervision, law enforcement, animal identification and property asset tracking. The company's proprietary integration of global positioning systems and wireless communication technologies will enable customers to obtain real-time location information for individuals and property directly through the Internet or any phone. Wherify's technology partners include LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, Sewon Telecom, SiRF, Intrado Inc., GlobeXplorer and Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. Founded in March 1998, Wherify Wireless, members of CEA and CTIA, is located in Redwood redwood: see sequoia; brazilwood. redwood or sequoia Coniferous evergreen timber tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of the family Taxodiaceae, found in the fog belt of west-coastal North America. Shores, Calif. For more information visit the company's Web site at http://www.wherify.com/. CONTACT: Ellen Roth, Vice President of Marketing of Wherify Wireless, +1-650-551-5270, or eroth@wherify.com; or Bob Stern of Neale-May & Partners, +1-415-646-0055, ext. 514, or mobile, +1-415-725-3938, or bstern@nealemay, for Wherify Wireless. MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X42544651 Contact: Ellen Roth, Vice President of Marketing of Wherify Wireless, +1-650-551-5270, or eroth@wherify.com; or Bob Stern of Neale-May & Partners, +1-415-646-0055, ext. 514, or mobile, +1-415-725-3938, or bstern@nealemay, for Wherify Wireless Website: http://www.wherify.com/ |
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