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These are exciting times for anyone in the mobile sector, but especially for us. In the US with LinkMeMobile, and with our global brands in Japan, China, Canada and the UK, we’re signing new contracts with some of the most significant retailers around the world on a weekly basis. Our patented image recognition and voice recognition technologies have allowed us to create an approach to mobile search that dramatically changes mobile advertising, couponing and therefore mobile commerce. While most others rely on the guess-work provided by GPS, we allow our partners to respond directly to specific inquiries consumers make from their phones, and to interact in real-time with those consumers. This is ideal for both – retailers can directly influence the “buy” decision the very moment that decision is made and consumers can leverage that to get the best possible deal. The only other way to accomplish this would be to have someone standing next to each consumer as they make a purchase.

We see an increasing number of competitors in this sector — mostly companies attempting to use bar code scanners or some form of QR codes or other odd, unattractive symbols. The problem with every one of these is that no matter how clever the symbol, ultimately they are very ugly and they alter and ruin all the efforts put into brand creativity and advertising. They’re also completely unnecessary. Besides the fact that nearly all of these infringe upon our patents, our technology consistently achieves over 96% accuracy recognizing any naked image – without the need for adulterating symbols or embedded watermarks. Again and again, ours is proven the best choice for both retailers and consumers.   In Japan — where QR codes originated and are ubiquitous — we’re now constantly being approached by people telling us they no longer want to use them and much prefer the flexibility and results we can provide.

All of this has taken us to the point where we felt it time to start reaching out directly to consumers, as more and more of them are downloading our applications and using our technology every day. We’ve therefore added this blog into our site — and integrated Facebook, Twitter, RSS feed and Share This options — to better serve our customers and consumers. We’ll be using these social media outlets to keep the dialogue open and flowing in both directions — most importantly, to ensure we provide the best service we can. We believe every mobile phone should be a Discovery Device ™ and with your help and ideas we’ll continue creating, learning and growing our technology and our apps to answer your needs. I invite everyone to connect with us and let us know what we can do with our technologies to make your life better.

All the best,

dwm

President & CEO

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