ActiveTrak™ Inc., a leader in advanced tracking and data protection software for consumer and business devices, today made available GadgetTrak 3 for laptops, the latest version of its acclaimed GadgetTrak software. Powered by ActiveTrak’s industry-leading anti-theft technology, GadgetTrak 3 introduces new functionality that allows people to track multiple computing devices at the same time – including laptops, netbooks and desktop computers – through a centralized Web control panel that can be viewed from any Internet accessible device.

“Today’s families typically have multiple computers in their home, many of them mobile devices such as laptops and netbooks that leave the home and are vulnerable to loss and theft,” said ActiveTrak CEO Ken Westin. “ActiveTrak specifically designed our newest software platform with households with multiple devices and small- to medium-sized businesses in mind. By being able track all laptops, netbooks and desktop computers simply, in one location, people are better able to keep tabs on all their computers, regardless of what kind of computers they are.

The FBI estimates 10-percent of all laptops purchased in the United States will be stolen within the first year of ownership with only three-percent recovered. However, GadgetTrak has a successful recovery rate of over 95 percent.

GadgetTrak 3 provides the most advanced data protection and theft recovery solution for laptops, taking back control of stolen devices from the thief. The GadgetTrak software supports Windows (XP, Vista and 7) and Mac OS X Leopard and higher (10.5 and 10.6), , greatly increasing the chances of recovery for nearly every laptop, netbook and desktop computer sold in the last few years.

Key features of GadgetTrak 3 include:

• Advanced Positioning
• By using onboard Wi-Fi radios found in virtually all computers together with advanced Wi-Fi positioning technology, GadgetTrak pinpoints stolen laptops within 10 meters.
• Location Notification
• When tracking occurs, a subscriber will get an email with detailed information about a device’s location. This information can also be found on a web control panel at www.trak.me.
• Webcam Support
• Using a laptop webcam, GadgetTrak can remotely snap a photo of a thief, providing crucial evidence that police can use to get a laptop back.

With GadgetTrak 3 people can protect their computers and their valuable and private data for $34.95 per device per year. More information can be found at www.gadgettrak.com.

About ActiveTrak Inc.
ActiveTrak Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and patented theft recovery and loss prevention solutions for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices. The company’s consumer product, GadgetTrak, delivers the most advanced theft recovery software available for consumers and businesses today. ActiveTrak not only provides the technology to recover and protect data on devices, but also recovery assistance. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit www.ActiveTrak.com.

Teams of local Fire Fighters will fan out across Seattle, beginning on July 15th, boots in hand, as they kick off their annual Fill-the-Boot fundraising campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). This year, they are tapping the power of new technology to raise awareness and raise much-needed funds, leveraging the location-aware mobile microlistings platform “Anttenna (www.anttenna.com),” in spreading the word about the locations of donation collection teams.

Last year, the International Association of Fire Fighters raised over $28 million for MDA, making the grand-total for the 55-year tradition close to $195,000,000! Fire Fighters have been volunteering their time and, don’t forget, boots—to help children and adults with muscle-deteriorating diseases since 1954.

Fire Department’s in Washington State began “filling their boots” in May, while the Seattle Fire Department’s Fill-the-Boot will kick-off a two day event on July 15th & 16th. This is Seattle’s 13th year working with MDA on the Fill-the-Boot campaign. Fire Fighters will be at various street corners each day, asking motorists to drop donations into their boots. Unique to this year’s campaign is the addition of Anttenna, a community-driven mobile application that combines the real-time communications power of Twitter with the location awareness native within mobile phones. Available as a free download on the iPhone and iPad, Anttenna will serve as a key tool for increasing awareness of the Fill-the-Boot campaign and notifying individuals across the Seattle area of nearby donation collection locations. The public may access Anttenna to see all Fill-the-Boot locations while on-the-go (be sure to filter by the “Donate” category when using the app). Liz Truong Jasmer, Executive Director of MDA, mentioned, “I’m thrilled about this new opportunity that Annttenna has created for us. Fill-the-Boot is a 56 year old tradition that has stood the test of time but with the changing times in fundraising, this type of technology can have a dramatically large impact in the way we are able to raise dollars in the future.” CEO of Seattle-based Anttenna, Marcus Wandell, had this to say about his company’s involvement, “While the commercial applications of Anttenna are powerful, I am most excited about our ability to tap the power of the platform to raise awareness for – and advance the cause of – worthy community initiatives such as MDA’s Fill-the-Boot campaign.”

Proceeds raised during the street side campaign will help support MDA services and research programs, including transportation services, support groups, and local clinics.

MDA is a volunteer health agency working to defeat more than 40 forms of Muscular Dystrophy and related diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA maintains clinics for area adults and children affected by neuromuscular diseases at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and the University of Washington Medical Center.

For more information about Fill-the-Boot or other MDA programs, please contact Liz Truong Jasmer at (206) 283-2183 or ejasmer@mdausa.org.

For more information about Anttenna, the category-defining company in mobile microlistings, visit www.anttenna.com.

The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named Runner Up in the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards in two categories: Best Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Best Service Delivery Platform. Recognizing companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates, the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards program notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry.

Through nominations judged by an impressive list of mobile industry executives and members of the media, the Mobile Merit Awards are presented to outstanding companies for technologies within the mobile arena that will have the greatest impact on the market. The 2010 Mobile Merit Awards judges honored products, individuals, and technologies based on their industry impact, innovation, social importance, implementation and overall success factor. The Mobile Merit Award submission categories covered all aspects of mobility including: devices, infrastructure, applications, social/digital medium, 4G technologies, mobile marketing, and media.

“These Mobile Merit Awards for BOLT are further recognition of the hard work and commitment of the Bitstream development and engineering team,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “2010 has already been a year of many important milestones for BOLT as we are surpassing 35,000 downloads a day on average, totaling over 7.8 million downloads to date. The latest version, BOLT 2.1, which we released late last month, is the most fully-featured release yet, and we look forward to feedback from our active user base as we are constantly making improvements to truly make BOLT the crowd favorite.”

The BOLT mobile browser was named runner up in the Best Overall Consumer Application category, a tribute to the popular cross platform app with millions of users across BlackBerry Smartphones , and all levels of Java-based mobile phones. The industry’s most fully featured mobile browser for phones of all types, BOLT is downloaded by more than 30,000 people around the world each day.

BOLT earned a second runner up award for Best Service Delivery Platform. BOLT’s server middleware provides carriers with the ability to better manage data consumption on their networks by compressing data up to 24:1 and using as little as 4 percent what a standard mobile browser would use, while at the same time delivering a superior Web browsing experience for handset manufacturers and their users.

“B2 Group is pleased to judge and participate in this year’s Mobile Merit Awards showcasing our thought leadership in the mobile industry by selecting companies, like Bitstream, that we feel represent the innovation taking place in the mobile market today,” said judge Bob Bilbruck, Managing Director B2 Group/ Mobiletain. “We congratulate all participants in the Mobile Merit Awards this year and look forward to seeing more great entries next year.”

Other notable 2010 Mobile Merit Award winners include GoTV Networks, Research in Motion, Nokia, Sybase 365, Sprint-Nextel, DeviceAnywhere, and Telepicture/TMZ.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

About Mobile Merit Awards
The Mobile Merit Awards recognizes companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates today. Through nominations the Mobile Merit Awards notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry. These bi-annual awards are presented to outstanding companies, individuals and technologies from each sector within the mobile arena for work of the greatest likely impact on the market. For more information please visit: http://www.mobilemeritawards.com

ActiveTrak™ Inc., a leader in advanced theft recovery software for consumer and business devices, is proud to announce a 95 percent recovery rate for laptops and smartphones running its GadgetTrak^® application. Compared to FBI crime statistics that reveal only 10 percent of all burglaries are actually solved, owners of a mobile device should be advised that using GadgetTrak dramatically increases the chances of recovery should their device be stolen or lost. In addition to ActiveTrak’s high recovery rate, over the past year the company has helped law enforcement catch burglary suspects, and break up device and identity theft crime rings.

“Remote theft recovery software like GadgetTrak gives detectives a new weapon in their arsenal that surpasses any other tool available to help catch burglary suspects in a matter of days,” said Special Agent Marc Hinch with California’s San Mateo County Vehicle Theft Task Force. “GadgetTrak is key to catching criminals this summer, a season notorious for an increase in thefts.”

GadgetTrak offers the industry’s most advanced theft recovery software for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices, including the first such security product for the iPad. Protected by GadgetTrak, a lost or stolen device can be pinpointed on a map within roughly 10 feet using GPS, Wi-Fi positioning or cell phone triangulation. Using a device’s onboard camera, GadgetTrak can automatically take a picture of a theft suspect and remotely lock the device as well as completely wipe any data.

“Most homeowners do not keep track of product serial numbers, so finding common electronic devices once they’re sold at pawn shops, or on Craigslist or eBay, and returning them to their owners is virtually impossible,” said Ken Westin, ActiveTrak founder and CEO. “With GadgetTrak, we’ve been catching thieves in the act for years, not only recovering laptops and mobile phones for our customers, but also solving larger crimes including theft rings.”

ActiveTrak has been retrieving devices and catching criminals around the world since its founding nearly three years ago. Recent recovery stories include:

• GadgetTrak provided police with the location of a stolen laptop, photo of a suspect and ultimately led them to a theft ring responsible for at least four burglaries that had plagued public schools in Portland, Oregon.
• GadgetTrak remotely captured photos of a thief who had stolen a laptop and jewelry, ultimately leading to police catching the suspect and recovering the stolen goods within a couple of days in Springfield, Oregon.
• A customer in Oregon had his laptop stolen and ActiveTrak worked with law enforcement to track the criminal down all the way in Missouri.

To read additional GadgetTrak recovery stories visit: http://www.activetrak.com/company/pressroom/category/recovery_stories/.

Advanced features of GadgetTrak include:

• The ability to trigger a remote ping that initiates a loud noise from a lost or stolen smartphone (even if it is in silent mode)
• Remote device lock
• Remote data wipe
• Recovery assistance and much more

About ActiveTrak Inc.
ActiveTrak Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and patented theft recovery and loss prevention solutions for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices. The company’s consumer product, GadgetTrak, delivers the most advanced theft recovery software available for consumers and businesses today. ActiveTrak not only provides the technology to recover and protect data on devices, but also recovery assistance. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit www.ActiveTrak.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its BOLT™ browser has rendered its 1 billionth Web page, surpassing this major usage milestone over the weekend before the company made the second generation of its mobile browser, Bolt 2.1, available to the public. Launched in February 2009, the BOLT mobile browser is the most advanced and fully featured mobile browser available for phones of all types. Bolt has enjoyed consistent growth as people around the world flock to the acclaimed browser’s video streaming, tight integration with social networking, tabbed browsing and a host of other features that deliver PC-style browsing to mobile phones of all types.

“In July of last year Bitstream announced that BOLT climbed past 100 million Web pages rendered,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “The first 100 million pages are always the hardest. At our current rate of usage, BOLT servers are rendering 100 million Web pages every two weeks, and that rate is accelerating. BOLT is now drawing new users faster than 1 million every month, another rate that is also accelerating. It’s extremely gratifying that after all our hard work and our dialogue with our users, we’ve built a mobile application that is highly reviewed, award-winning and popular around the world.”

BOLT, now used by more than 7.3 million people in over 200 countries, has also streamed more than 570 million minutes of video – equivalent to more than 1,000 years when played back to back. With its recent addition of HTML5 video support and the broadest range of Flash video support for mobile phones of all types, BOLT users are now streaming the equivalent of 15 years worth of video every single day. So far in 2010, BOLT has transferred 290 Terabytes of data, roughly equivalent to the amount of data that can be stored on 3.7 million CDs.

BOLT is a free download for people using J2ME mobile phones – approximately 75 percent of the world’s estimated 4 billion mobile phones – and BlackBerry smartphones. The most fully featured mobile browser, BOLT includes many features not available in competing mobile browsers:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, ensuring rendering accuracy, speed and support for the latest Web standards and innovations.
• The broadest streaming video support of any mobile browser for mobile phones of all types.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets – standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser – such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Ability to update the BOLT client remotely, over-the-air.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT Lite™. BOLT Lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout in a smaller package optimized for entry-level devices.

Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use with keypad shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html.

BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite are available for free at http://boltbrowser.com. Consumers who have downloaded previous versions of BOLT will be prompted through the application to upgrade the browser.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced commercial availability of the second generation of its acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. BOLT 2.1 marks the completion of beta testing on the most fully featured browser available for mobile phones of all types. Among BOLT 2.1’s new features are tighter integration with Facebook and support for HTML5 video as well as several new Flash video streaming websites.

“In just a few years it is expected that more people will be using the Internet on mobile devices than from desktop computers,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Bitstream has engineered BOLT to maximize the utility of the Internet on mobile for end users, give handset manufacturers an important competitive differentiator for their mobile phone lines, and provide mobile network operators another way to compete for new users as well as to better manage the data usage on their networks. Bitstream has always believed there should be a singular entity called the Internet, as opposed to a desktop iteration alongside a lighter, less functional mobile version.”

An April 2010 report from the analyst firm Morgan Stanley found that video accounts for 69 percent of all mobile data traffic worldwide. With the inclusion of HTML5 video, the BOLT mobile browser now provides the industry’s broadest video support. HTML5 video is a new standard for delivering streaming video via an Internet browser without requiring an external plug-in. Though a relatively new standard, a study released this month by the video aggregator and search firm MeFeedia found that 26 percent of online video available is today already encoded for HTML5. Through the use of BOLT, users can watch HTML5 videos on any website on which they appear.

BOLT 2.1, Bitstream offers the largest selection of Flash video support available on all categories of mobile phones, adding mtv.com, nick.com, bbc.co.uk (UK), maniatv.com, svtplay.se (Sweden), hungama.com (India) and bollywoodhungama.com (India) to a list that already included youtube.com, cnn.com, espn.com, video.google.com, video.yahoo.com, vids.myspace.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com, rutube.ru and www.mocospace.com. BOLT 2.1’s advanced integration with Facebook – by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – includes the ability to use Facebook’s instant messaging service and to seamlessly copy text or links and post them to a Facebook account directly from within the BOLT browser. The most important new feature of BOLT 2.1 is tabbed browsing which gives people the ability to simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them, a functionality that was a top request from BOLT users. Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.1 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03, keeping BOLT up-to-date with the latest Web standards.

BOLT has been installed nearly 7 million times since its debut in February 2009. Over the past few months, more than 30,000 users installed the consumer version of BOLT each day, while hundreds of thousands of people began using pre-installed versions of BOLT on newly available devices from Bitstream’s OEM partners in Asia and Eastern Europe.

The BOLT mobile browser is engineered to run on mobile phones of all types, from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. BOLT has been installed on thousands of different handset models running on hundreds of networks worldwide. BOLT is the only major WebKit-based cloud computing browser and is built to deliver a PC-like browsing experience on mobile phones. Its small package, easy integration and comprehensive feature set make it ideal for handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to offer the best possible Internet experience for users of the widest range of mobile device categories. Co-branding and white labeling opportunities make BOLT especially attractive to OEMs and mobile network operators who will benefit from BOLT’s many advantages, including:

OEMs:

• Can offer more appealing product lines to operators with mobile devices that provide full-featured browsing, multimedia, widgets and advanced social networking support on all levels of mobile devices.
• BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture enables efficient use of on-device resources.
• BOLT is presently available in J2ME and Brew versions, with English, Spanish, Romanian and Russian user interfaces. OEMs can request BOLT in other platforms as well.
• A 153k Lite™ version of BOLT is available for extremely resource-constrained devices.

Mobile Network Operators

• The BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing, multimedia streaming, widget downloads, and social networking that increase ARPU while lowering operator cost.
• BOLT reduces infrastructure costs through best-of-breed over-the-air data compression that is as much as 24:1, a factor more than twice as effective as competing mobile browsers. BOLT’s superior data compression offers the additional benefit of speedy performance on 2G networks and entry-level devices.
• Customizable widgets and featured favorites offer new revenue-generating opportunities.
• BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture allows for easy scaling to hundreds of millions of users, and beyond.
• Flexible, cost-effective deployment options with Bitstream managing all server/cloud maintenance.

BOLT is the most fully featured mobile browser, including many features not available in competing mobile browsers. Among these features are:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, ensuring rendering accuracy, speed and support for the latest Web standards and innovations.
• The broadest streaming video support of any mobile browser.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets – standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser – such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Ability to update the BOLT client remotely, over-the-air.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

Changes in how data plans are offered mean more people than ever are buying mobile data on usage-based plans. BOLT’s cloud computing architecture compresses Web and multimedia content by as much as a factor of 24:1 before sending it to the mobile phone. This use of compression means that end users can load websites significantly faster and consume as little as 4 percent of the data as they would on other mobile browsers. As usage-based data plans proliferate together with mobile Internet use, phones that reduce data usage while delivering a superior Web experience will become in higher demand by consumers worldwide. Utilizing such compression makes BOLT of interest to mobile operators who seek to better manage the use of data on their networks.

Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use with keypad shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html. BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite is available for free at http://boltbrowser.com. Consumers who have downloaded previous versions of BOLT will be prompted through the application to upgrade the browser.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

Just as Twitter evolved blogging into micro-blogging, Anttenna (www.anttenna.com) is today launching a free smartphone application that reinvents classified advertising as “microlistings.” Launching as an iPhone application, Anttenna delivers a real-time, location-aware and mobile consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer microlistings marketplace for the buying, selling, and bartering of goods and services. Today, Anttenna announced the application is now available in most major metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada, building on the success of pilots in San Diego, Seattle, and Austin.

“Anttenna is like a swap meet in your pocket,” said Marcus Wandell, Anttenna’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “This year, more people will access the Internet on their phones than they will on computers, and smartphones are changing the very fabric of the Internet with portability, geo-positioning, and mobile applications. With the exception of posting ads online and making them searchable, classified ads haven’t really evolved all that much since they were introduced 300 years ago, certainly not to the point of harnessing this technology revolution that will see billions of smartphones in use around the world in just a couple of years. Anttenna fully leverages the smartphone platforms and new communications standards to give people a whole new way to use classified advertising. Anttenna delivers a constant stream of hyper-local, real-time listings, always relevant given the moment and location in which they are seen.”

Anttenna’s free mobile application facilitates real-time, location-based, person-to-person exchanges. By turning traditional classified listings into geo-tagged, Twitter-sized microlistings, Anttenna connects people in real-time to others nearby through their handhelds. In less than a minute, potential buyers can search through the Anttenna marketplace to find items or services they’re looking for, all in proximity to where they are at that moment. Microlistings could include finding a concert ticket on location at a music festival, helping a lost pet reunite with her owner, or finding a free sofa right down the block that is in need of a good home.

As Anttenna’s co-founder wandered through a music festival in New York City, he wished the various participating vendors could send him information about what they were selling, their locations, and any offers they might have to his GPS-enabled smartphone. Realizing that this same sort of problem was repeating itself in ways both large and small, block after block, and community after community, the vision for Anttenna was born.

Taking advantage of the reach, openness and familiarity of the Twitter platform, and the exploding popularity of smartphones, Anttenna enables instantaneous, location-aware person-to-person communication and exchange that is efficient and consistent with the “tweet” communication format.

“The feedback from people during the Anttenna pilot was overwhelming,” said Hunter Jensen, Anttenna’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “These early Anttenna users loved the ease of use and functionality that comes from seamless integration with the Twitter ecosystem. Leveraging Twitter’s platform, we give people the ability to instantly communicate with each other by ‘Anttweeting,’ with the huge privacy benefit of not having to share personal information such as phone numbers or email addresses.”

The concept of community is central to the company’s vision. As a location-based service, Anttenna becomes part of the fabric of the communities it serves. Recognizing and respecting the role it can play in communities, Anttenna provides tools and services specifically geared towards non-profits and other volunteer-based civic organizations. To further enhance this interaction with the community, the Anttenna service features categories such as “Volunteer,” “Carpool,” and “Borrow/Lend.” During its pilot, the Anttenna platform was used to raise awareness and donations for a San Diego initiative called The Campaign for Abandoned Youth, in partnership with the non-profit group StayClassy.org. With the national rollout, Anttenna has teamed up with the Muscular Dystrophy Association in several cities to spread the word about the locations of donation collection teams staffed by local firefighters supporting MDA’s annual ‘Fill The Boot’ drive.

iPhone users can get the free Anttenna application on iTunes.

About Anttenna
Anttenna is defining mobile microlistings, providing businesses and consumers with a real-time, location-based mobile microlistings marketplace for the exchange of goods and services. The Anttenna platform strengthens the bonds between people and their communities, providing tools that allow non-profit, volunteer-based and other civic organizations to connect, communicate and mobilize in response to local needs. For more information, visit www.anttenna.com.

TextArrest, the safe driving solution designed to prevent distracted driving, announced today its support of May 2010 as National Youth Traffic Safety Month with a special promotion. In support of National Youth Traffic Safety Month TextArrest is offering completely free subscriptions to its safe driving application and subscription services for the entire month of May 2010. Drivers of all ages are invited to download the TextArrest app today at www.TextArrest.com to proactively prevent the temptation to use their cell phones while driving.

By installing the TextArrest application on their smartphones drivers are taking the right step to prevent the gruesome and totally avoidable distracted driving accidents that kill thousands of people each year. During the month of May, TextArrest will offer its TextArrest Free™ and TextArrest Family™ services absolutely free to all drivers who visit the TextArrest website.

TextArrest Free is a free smartphone application that delivers the most important function of TextArrest: the automatic switching off of text message and calling functions while a phone is in motion. It features a customizable auto response from the user to inform people sending text messages that their messages will be delivered once the user has safely stopped driving.

TextArrest Family is a subscription based service that lets parents control how mobile phones are used when family members are driving. In addition to all of the safety features of TextArrest Free, TextArrest Family includes a Web-based portal where parents can pinpoint phones on a map and set up customizable alerts to be notified in real time when family members override TextArrest (in case of an emergency), exceed a set speed limit, or travel outside of a set “geofenced” location boundary.

“Doing something smart to prevent distracted driving is as easy as putting your phone in your trunk or glove box when you get in your car so you’re not tempted to use it while driving, but most teens just don’t,” says Dr. David Lanzkowsky, TextArrest Founder and Chairman. “The need to stay connected with friends and be part of the social graph is so important to some youth that they let their common sense get away from them. They rationalize it, believing they can easily text from behind the wheel without it affecting their ability to drive safely. They couldn’t be more wrong. This is exactly why we developed TextArrest. We are here to help drivers help themselves stay safe on the road.”

National Youth Traffic Safety Month, May 2010, is an annual campaign that empowers youth to take action to address youth traffic safety through peer to peer education, support for increased enforcement, and advocacy for stronger laws to protect young drivers. Established in 2007 by National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS), NYTSM is the largest youth-led youth traffic safety national campaign in the US. TextArrest is supporting NYTSM and invites anyone interested in preventing the senseless and completely avoidable distracted driving accidents that are killing thousands of people a year to add their support. Anyone can participate in NYTSM activities. To find project planning materials, to register your project, or to find events and celebrations in your community, visit www.noys.org.

TextArrest will kick off its support of National Youth Traffic Safety month with company-wide participation at the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) Spring Meeting on April 29th and Oprah’s No Phone Zone Day rally on April 30th, both in Washington, D.C.

For more information on “No Phone Zone Day,” and to take the No Phone Zone pledge, visit www.oprah.com/nophonezone.

To download TextArrest to your BlackBerry or Android smartphone today visit www.TextArrest.com. Support for iPhone and other mobile phone platforms is coming soon.

About TextArrest
TextArrest is a software company dedicated to making the roads safer by eliminating distractions created when drivers use mobile phones. TextArrest uses features common in today’s smartphones to set and enforce parameters for safe use of mobile phones inside moving vehicles. From disabling text messaging and calling capabilities while a person is driving to tracking the movement and location of mobile phones in transit, TextArrest provides control coupled with a Web-based portal delivering real time information on phone usage and location. Founded in 2009 by a doctor with emergency room and trauma center background, TextArrest is the solution for concerned parents, dispatchers, and fleet managers to the growing problem of people driven to distraction by mobile phone use in cars. For more information on TextArrest visit www.TextArrest.com.

About National Youth Traffic Safety Month
In the U.S. more than 5,000 youth die every year in car crashes. Crashes are the number one cause of death and injury of teens in the U.S. Crashes take more lives of our youth than alcohol, drugs, violence, and suicide. Youth Traffic Safety is no accident and steps can be taken to help protect youth and encourage them to stay safe on the roads. For more information visit http://noys.org/YouthTrafSafe/toolkit.html.

Follow TextArrest on Twitter at http://twitter.com/textarrest

TextArrest today announced a new safe driving mobile application designed to keep employees’ eyes on the road and off their phones while they drive. Introduced today from the NAFA Fleet Management Association 2010 Institute & Expo in Detroit, TextArrest Fleet™ helps businesses – including executive fleets, trucking, delivery, busing, taxi and limousine companies – protect their employees, other drivers, passengers and pedestrians, company vehicles, and the corporate bottom line against death, injury, damage and lawsuits caused by distracted driving.

The Million Dollar Question

The data on distracted driving makes abundantly clear the hazards. A recent study by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis found that each year distracted driving is responsible for 2,600 deaths, 333,000 injuries and $1.5 million in property damage claims. The study estimated the annual cost associated with cell phone related car crashes to be $43 billion.

“Half the US states have imposed bans on text and driving, with Michigan and Wisconsin passing laws just last week. But anti-texting laws do not protect businesses from irresponsible employees,” said TextArrest Chairman Dr. David Lanzkowsky, M.D., a doctor with emergency room experience who founded the company in 2009. “Juries have awarded millions of dollars in individual cases to people struck by drivers who were distracted by mobile phone usage – an amount that can put many businesses into bankruptcy. Whether you’re a pizzeria with one or two delivery drivers or a nationwide delivery service with tens of thousands of trucks and vans, is ignoring the distracted driving epidemic worth the tremendous risk to your business?”

A recent Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) study found that texting while driving increases the risk of motor vehicle accidents by 2300 percent, six times greater than driving while intoxicated. A recent survey by the insurance carrier Nationwide found that nearly half of drivers, 45 percent, have either been hit or almost hit by a driver using a cell phone.

The Less than $1 a Month Answer

Businesses require a solution to help employees drive responsibly and better avoid the risks of damage, injury, death or financial ruin. With a development team that has built software and support systems specific to enterprise needs, TextArrest is today delivering businesses the most comprehensive tool available for mitigating the risks posed by employees distracted by their cell phones while driving.

TextArrest, which last month launched its TextArrest Free™ and TextArrest Family™ applications for individuals and families, keeps employees safe and focused on the road while driving by disabling any use of the phone that requires the screen – such as texting, instant messaging, calling, Web browsing – that should not be used by an employee behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. TextArrest not only protects drivers from the dangerous temptation to use their phone while driving, it also offers businesses a better way to supervise the location and driving patterns of employees through the normal use of their smartphones.

Starting at $9.99 per month to protect up to ten employees, with negotiated pricing for larger pools of drivers, TextArrest can mitigate the risk to businesses posed by employees distracted by their smartphones for less than $1 per driver per month.

The TextArrest Application

TextArrest is a smartphone application that automatically switches off text message and calling functions while the phone is in motion. All versions of TextArrest feature:

• Integration with a phone’s GPS system to determine the speed of a moving vehicle.
• Automatic switching off of text messaging and calling functions after a phone is detected to be traveling faster than 5 MPH.
• A customizable auto response message from the user to inform people sending text messages that their messages will be delivered once the user stops driving.

For fleet managers, IT departments and people who supervise mobile employees, TextArrest Fleet offers additional features as part of an affordable subscription based service, including Web based management and monitoring tools to better control how mobile phones are used when employees are driving.

TextArrest Fleet

Managed through an easy-to-use Web based dashboard, TextArrest Fleet gives businesses control over how and under what circumstances mobile phone features can be used, along with the ability to pinpoint on a map the location and driving routes of phones under their supervision. TextArrest fleet helps businesses manage, audit and enforce safe driving policies with features including:

• A Web-based management portal that lets account managers take note of all phone use activity.
• Location based geofence monitoring that lets account managers draw boundaries on a map and configure customizable alerts for when a phone travels outside of the set geofenced boundaries.
• Customizable alerts to notify employers in real-time when phones are traveling beyond set speed limits, including a report of the location and the speed at which the phone was clocked.
• Customizable alerts to notify employers in real-time when TextArrest settings are tampered with or overridden.

The TextArrest applications include settings to switch a phone from “driver” to “passenger” mode for people who aren’t driving or may be riding on a bus or a train. The passenger override restores those features typically switched off by TextArrest while a phone is in motion. TextArrest Fleet lets users call emergency services under any condition, even while a phone is in motion.

The TextArrest technology takes advantage of features common in today’s smartphones to set and enforce parameters for the safe use of mobile phones inside moving vehicles. All versions of TextArrest require only a simple application download and no hardware changes. There are no set-up or activation charges, and TextArrest Fleet subscriptions start at $9.99/month to cover up to 10 employees, a price well below competing services that have fewer capabilities. At launch TextArrest Fleet supports Android and BlackBerry smartphones with iPhone and additional platform support coming soon.

Visit http://www.textarrest.com to subscribe to TextArrest Fleet today.

About TextArrest:
TextArrest is a software company dedicated to making the roads safer by eliminating distractions created when drivers use mobile phones. TextArrest uses features common in today’s smartphones to set and enforce parameters for safe use of mobile phones inside moving vehicles. From disabling text messaging and calling capabilities while a person is driving to tracking the movement and location of mobile phones in transit, TextArrest provides control, coupled with a Web-based portal delivering real-time information on phone usage and location. Founded in 2009 by a doctor with emergency room and trauma center background, TextArrest is the solution for concerned parents, dispatchers and fleet managers to the growing problem of people driven to distraction by mobile phone use in cars.

Follow TextArrest on Twitter at http://twitter.com/textarrest

TextArrest (www.TextArrest.com), the safe driving solution for families, fleets, and safety-minded individuals, announced today its support of May 2010 as National Youth Traffic Safety month. TextArrest will kick off its traffic safety efforts through its participation at the NAFA Fleet Management Association 2010 Institute & Expo (NAFA 2010 I&E), The Risk and Insurance Management Society’s 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition (RIMS 2010), the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) Spring Meeting, and Oprah’s No Phone Zone Day.

NAFA 2010 I&E

• Dates:  April 24-27, 2010
• Location:  Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan
• TextArrest Booth:  #207
• About:  TextArrest executives will join commercial and government fleet professionals at NAFA’s 2010 I&E to conduct business development meetings and demonstrate the ways that companies can benefit from using the TextArrest safe driving solutions to eliminate distracted driving and reduce the risk of accidents caused by mobile phone use from behind the wheel. For more information on this event visit: http://www.nafaiande.org/

RIMS 2010

• Dates:  April 25-29, 2010
• Location:   Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts
• TextArrest Booth:  #101
• About:  TextArrest executives will join some 10,000 risk and insurance professionals for this five-day event to discuss and demonstrate how the TextArrest safe driving solution fits into the future of insurance coverage, offering policy holders extra safety and value while reducing the overall incidents of accidents and insurance liabilities for carriers. For more information on this event visit: http://www.rims.org/annualconference/RIMS2010/

NOYS Spring Meeting

• Dates:  April 29-30, 2010
• Location:  Washington, D.C.
• About:  National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) is an effective coalition that develops collaboration between national organizations, businesses, and government agencies that focus on youth safety and health. NOYS members unite the power of youth led and youth serving organizations, businesses and government agencies to address issues such as distracted driving, and empower youth to take action and lead through peer to peer education and service learning. TextArrest executives will join NOYS members, along with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, to discuss distracted driving issues and legislation, and to put in place plans and campaigns for programs that work towards solutions to the number one killer of teens in the US – - traffic accidents.

Oprah’s No Phone Zone Day

• Dates:  Friday, April 30, 2010
• Location:  Washington, D.C.
• About:  Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Studios are taking a stand against distracted driving, launching a new public service announcement campaign and joining forces with some of the country’s preeminent transportation safety organizations to declare Friday, April 30 the first national “No Phone Zone Day.” TextArrest will participate in the large-scale effort to honor victims of distracted driving. “No Phone Zone Day” will also educate and activate Americans to end the deadly driving habits that kill nearly 6,000 Americans a year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
  
  On Friday April 30, The Oprah Winfrey Show will present a special live episode devoted to ending distracted driving. In conjunction with the episode, TextArrest executives will participate in Harpo Studios’ “No Phone Zone Day” viewing rally to be held in Washington, D.C.  For more information on “No Phone Zone Day,” and to take the No Phone Zone pledge, visit www.oprah.com/nophonezone.

About TextArrest
TextArrest is a software company dedicated to making the roads safer by eliminating distractions created when drivers use mobile phones.  TextArrest uses features common in today’s smartphones to set and enforce parameters for safe use of mobile phones inside moving vehicles. From disabling text messaging and calling capabilities while a person is driving to tracking the movement and location of mobile phones in transit, TextArrest provides control coupled with a Web-based portal delivering real time information on phone usage and location. Founded in 2009 by a doctor with emergency room and trauma center background, TextArrest is the solution for concerned parents, dispatchers, and fleet managers to the growing problem of people driven to distraction by mobile phone use in cars. For more information on TextArrest visit www.TextArrest.com.

About National Youth Traffic Safety Month
In the U.S. more than 5,000 youth die every year in car crashes. Crashes are the number one cause of death and injury of teens in the U.S.  Crashes take more lives of our youth than alcohol, drugs, violence, and suicide. Youth Traffic Safety is no accident and steps can be taken to help protect youth and encourage them to stay safe on the roads. For more information visit http://noys.org/YouthTrafSafe/toolkit.html.