Tuesday, August 23, 2011

One-way GPS device (PND) sales decline as two-way GPS smartphones offer turn by turn navigation and other personal location services.

PNDs are fast being cannibalized as Google and smartphone makers such as Nokia offer free turn-by-turn navigation.

Google’s no-cost Maps app, bundled with Android smartphones, includes voice directions and turn-by-turn navigation, just like the stand-alone big boys. (This is a category in which Androids clearly trump iPhones. The iPhone’s Google Maps app does not offer these features.)

A total of about 41.5 million PND units were shipped in 2010 and that will dip to 39.2 million units this year, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. Berg Insight sees shipments dropping by a fifth, to 34 million units, by 2015. IHS expects more than 135 million navigation-enabled smartphones to be sold this year, while such phones already in use will almost double to 269 million by 2013.

If you were wondering where the answer to the “where is” the 2-way GPS smartphone business going, skip the Google search and go straight to GTX Corp and its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Do you need to have more confidence about the decisions you make regarding your medical care?

To get the health care you deserve take charge of your health care records and carry your medical history with you at all times. You will be an empowered patient with greatly improved the doctor patient communication and decrease the chances for medical errors.

If you have a chronic illness, take prescriptive drugs or suffer severe allergic reactions you need to inform the emergency or medical professionals treating you - tell a story that helps them help you.

Professionals generally suggest that you collect at least three generations of medical history. Relatives whose medical history has the most impact on you include your first- (children, siblings and parents) and second-degree relatives (grandchildren, nieces/nephews, aunts/uncles and grandparents).

The best place to keep that information is a Code Amber Alertag.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

When the beginning is also the end.

The smartphone is displacing stand-alone GPS receiver devices as a means to get destination directions… more so now that advertisers are delivering their messages linked to smartphone subscriber GPS signals.

More than 40 percent of all smartphone owners use their mobile devices to get turn-by-turn directions, according to data from Compete, a Web analytics firm. For iPhone users, the figure is even higher, eclipsing 80 percent.

High-end phones like the BlackBerry from Research in Motion and the new Palm Pre increasingly come equipped with features common in portable navigational devices, like spacious touch-sensitive screens, intuitive menu designs and improved audio capabilities.

IN FACT: 71% of smartphone users search because of an ad they’ve seen either online or offline; 82% of smartphone users notice mobile ads, 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping, and 88% of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.

These findings have been compiled from “The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users,” a study for Google conducted by Ipsos OTX.

At the local level: 95% of smartphone users have looked for local information. 88% of these users take action within a day, indicating these are immediate information needs. 77% have contacted a business, with 61% calling and 59% visiting the local business.

Purchase-driven Shoppers: Smartphones have become an indispensable shopping tool and are used across channels and throughout the research and decision-making process. 79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping, from comparing prices, finding more product info to locating a retailer. 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase, whether online, in-store, or on their phones. 70% use their smartphones while in the store, reflecting varied purchase paths that often begin online or on their phones and brings consumers to the store business.

Locimobile and GTX Corp offer delivery options to merchants, advertisers and smartphone users unparalleled in the emerging millions of markets of one proximity couponing business.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

America is hungry

It should come as no surprise that nearly everyone eats pizza which accounts for the significant number of neighborhood pizzerias: 61,269 and the 3B pizzas they sell each year.

Obviously the hungry for Italian have options. Question is; where’s the pizzeria closet to me offering a discount coupon? And that’s where GTX Corp comes in. Time sensitive relevant coupons delivered proximate to your immediate location using 2-way GPS technology. Here’s a taste: http://www.locideals.com/coupon/4

Get your “yum” on. Check out our menu at LOCiMOBILE

Thursday, June 30, 2011

GTX Corp Announces LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking Apps Cross over 1 Million users in 116 COUNTRIES

Los Angeles, California June 30, 2011‐‐GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB), a leader in real-time two way GPS Tracking and personal location services (PLS) today announced its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary’s GPS Tracking Apps crossed over 1 Million downloads with users in 116 countries and continues to be on the top charts of iTunes and Android market place.

“The GPS Tracking app is the simplest way to stay connected to a child, parent, friend or business associate, quickly and accurately from a Smartphone or internet ready device like the iPad, iPod or Android tablet, allowing users to locate people, instantly with one simple touch of a button,” says Patrick Bertagna, CEO of GTX Corp. “We also offer it at a price everyone can afford without compromising privacy.”

LOCiMOBILE’s 2-way GPS tracking platform has garnered a significant increase in awareness and demand, giving GTX Corp a strong foothold in this $13 billion industry. The Company pioneered 2-way GPS tracking technology over 9 years ago and defined an innovative category of location – based services by coining the phrase Personal Location Services (PLS) – because personal location is all about “keeping you connected to whom and what matters most.”

“Increase demand for 2-way GPS tracking can be attributed to several factors including hundreds of millions of new GPS enabled smartphones hitting the market, to an increase in boomers becoming memory impaired, to corporations needing to better manage work productivity and logistics, but the seismic shift came from the massive life style adoption of mobile location based social networking,” adds Mr. Bertagna. “Facebook and Twitter, became giants by answering the “what are you doing question” and we added the missing component… “where is” or “where are you doing it” which has become the new paradigm for staying connected.”

Looking ahead, the Company is continuing to expand its LOCiMOBILE ® proximity marketing platform and has recently partnered with MyChamberApp.com and launched a deal of the day for Pizza Hut a Longview Texas Chamber of commerce member. Kelly Hall, Longview Chamber CEO was recently awarded for best multimedia marketer through her innovative way of leveraging MyChamberApp and LOCi Deals push notification platform amongst her 1,000 plus chamber business partners. This week LOCi Deals were pushed out to thousands of local consumers for a buy one get one free Pizza Hut special.

ABOUT GTX CORP WITH YOU ®

GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) a leader in embedded real‐time GPS Tracking personal location services (PLS) was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Known for its game changing and award winning patented GPS Smart Shoe and its block buster smartphone GPS Tracking App which hit number two on the iTunes top grossing chart, the Company continues to pave the way with innovative geo specific and proximity alerting applications that help you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button. Committed to being the "better people finder", GTX Corp owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc. which develops location based social networking (LBSN) mobile applications for smartphones, Code Amber News Service, and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has an aggressive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copyrights and website properties. GTX Corp is well positioned to capture the PLS Market through its diverse product platform, licensing model, brand recognition, traction in the market and strategic partners. www.gtxcorp.com

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

The nobody’s else’s business, but your own – social check-in with extras.

The LOCiMOBILE iCheck-In ™ does not need an app to let those in your contact list learn what you’re doing and where you’re at… IF and WHEN you want them to know.

Introducing iCheck-in – the newest and most privacy protected solution to sharing your location with others of your choosing.

With a single click of a smartphone button an iCheck-In ™ is either sent as an e-mail or a direct posting to your Facebook wall.

What you send a contact includes; your what’s up message with a Google map and turn by turn directions to get from their wherever to where you are right now as an extra.

LOCiMOBILE is a business unit of GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB). It has more than 950,000 personal location service users in 116 countries – from Kathmandu to Klamath Falls you can find people finding people with apps, devices and software you can’t find anywhere else. GTX Corp® utilizes the latest in miniaturized GPS and cellular location platforms enabling subscribers to track the whereabouts of; people, pets, vehicles or valued assets in real time through a proprietary end to end solution via smartphone apps, middleware, and viewing portals.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking apps ride the Android wave of popularity.

Google’s operating system for cellphones has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian system as the market leader. In the three months through December, manufacturers shipped 33.3 million cellphones running Android, Google’s free, open-source cellphone operating system, up from just 4.7 million a year earlier, according to Canalys, a research firm in Reading, England.

Analysts said the figures represented a tectonic shift in the industry, cementing the influence of Google’s advertising-driven business on the mobile Internet. And this year, according to the research firm Gartner, more people will gain access to the Internet through mobile devices than with personal computers.

Three popular GPS tracking apps from LOCiMOBILE are available from the Android Marketplace that have downloaded

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Knowing where to find 'what' makes 'who' quite valuable.

While nearly everyone knows that GPS is an acronymn for Global Positioning Satellites, few understand how many different applications of the technology there are beyond the dash board navigation systems or the GPS enabled cell phones for which we have become so fond.

Tracking people, vehicles and valuables can be enabled by palm-sized portable devices like the gpVector miniMT that allow enterprises to provide security and recovery services that are invaluable to subscribing clients. As the marketplace learns of these applications the growth of GPS service bureaus will spread around the world.

For the small business or the multinational corporation, monitoring has become an intrinsic touch point governing all end to end business practices. This tremendous cost saving advantage can be uniquely customized to accommodate any requirement.

Knowledge is more than a tool. It is a solution.