July 30, 2006 Article: "New aim, shoot technology rings up comps" Chicago Tribune, by Mary Umberger Further evidence that privacy is just sooo 20th Century: Now you can walk and "comp" at the same time. That's "comp" as in comparable sales. Recent technology makes it possible to stroll down the block, aim your cell phone at a home and summon up the amount paid for it and much more. Giving new meaning to the phrase "point and click," a company called Smarter Agent has partnered with Sprint to offer a service called Recently Sold Homes. If you're a Sprint subscriber with global-positioningcapability, you need merely to meander through the neighborhood to surf for data on homes sold in the last three years. Up will pop a map with sales of all homes in the area--price, taxes and square footage--according to Sprint and Smarter Agent. It's all publicly recorded data that anybody could retrieve while seated at a computer, but this is about as portable as it gets. And, need I remind the endlessly threatened real estate community, it's the kind of information that consumers traditionally have relied on their agents to provide. Conveniently, if you're panting to buy that little bungalow that you're standing in front of, Smarter Agent will direct-dial an agent for you. The company says it has data for 180 metropolitan areas and claims to cover about 95 percent of the homes around Chicago. The cost for the informationally eager: $4.99 a month, plus various data-access charges.

July 22, 2006 Article: "Put your cell phone to work" COMMUNICATOR - SPRING 2006, by Brad Blumberg

MOVE OVER RING TONES and games, mobile applications are growing up. These new applications can make you more efficient and, in some cases, a better real estate professional. Many of the most useful mobile applications for real estate professionals can be downloaded and accessed from your existing cell phone. These powerful new tools combine technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), fast wireless networks and advanced mapping features. Click here to read the article.

July 21, 2006 Article: "Smarter House Hunting" Philadelphia Business Journal, by Peter Key

CAMDEN -- Smarter Agent Inc. has gone nationwide. Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint Nextel Corp. has begun making the company's Recently Sold Homes application available to customers with phones equipped with Global Positioning System technology. The application allows a person, from wherever he or she happens to be standing, to instantly receive information about the 10 closest homes that have sold within the past three years. The information includes the price and date of each sale and the square footage of the homes. Click here to read the article.

July 20, 2006 Sprint and Smarter Agent Launch Location-Based Real Estate Application for Wireless Phones Overland Park, Kan. & Philadelphia

Whether strolling past seaside homes on summer vacation or searching for a new home in time for the school year, from time to time we all find ourselves curbside wondering how much it would cost to live in a particular neighborhood. Now the curious can instantly satisfy their real estate cravings using select Sprint (NYSE: S) phones equipped with Global Positioning System technology. Click here to read the article.

June 28, 2006 Smarter Agent is an Inman Innovator - Smarter Agent was nominated for Most Innovative Technology.

The Inman Innovator Awards recognize companies that use technology and innovation to enhance the real estate transaction for consumers and real estate professionals. "In today's fast-moving marketplace, innovation is a more important quality than size, market share or even revenue," said Bradley Inman, founder and publisher of Inman News. "That's why I'm so excited to announce these Inman News Innovator Award finalists today."  The awards have been presented at Real Estate Connect SF since 1997.

May 19, 2006 The State of New Jersey’s top Science-Technology group awards $50,000 grant to Smarter Agent.

On a competitive basis, the commission has set up a fund to assist emerging technologies achieve a critical milestone in their commercialization path.  Smarter Agent was 1 of 6 award recipients.  Smarter Agent is creating a communication revolution by combining the powerful capabilities of mobile LBS (location based services) technology with real estate content about properties, neighborhoods and interesting places around you. Smarter Agent is the inventor of mobile LBS triggered real estate searching.

April 10, 2006 Pays to be 'smart'

Congrats to Smarter Agent on its latest recognition for having the best-in-show location-based service at a huge industry event last week. The Philadelphia-based company tells us that it was selected as the first place winner of the Wireless Emerging Technologies Award at CTIA Wireless 2006 for location-based services. Smarter Agent was judged on its Recently Sold Home Search application that will launch on cell phone wireless carriers this quarter, enabling consumers quick and easy access to last-sold prices, sales data and additional information on properties that have sold within the last approximately three years. Picture it this way: Consumers sign up for location-based service; they walk around a neighborhood in which they want to buy a home; they click on the Smarter Agent icon and see recently-sold prices and other information on houses that are right in front of them. Jessica Swesey, Inman News

February 22, 2006 Real estate news quote of the day

(Inman News Blog - Excerpt) "Any property is like a digital billboard now." – Brad Blumberg, CEO of Smarter Agent, referring to the company's location-based technology that allows consumers to cruise through neighborhoods and get instant access to home information on their cell phones. The service shows info on homes that are for sale and those that aren't, so it satisfies all sorts of voyeuristic real estate desires. Cell phone service providers are launching LBS applications this year, which means Smarter Agent's real estate service will be spreading.

January 12, 2006
Brad Blumberg to speak at Inman Connect in NYC on January 12, on a panel: How mobile technology will change the real estate industry. On March 2, Brad will be speaking at the GPS-Wireless conference in San Francisco.

October 2, 2005

This week Smarter Agent appeared in USA Today, Business Week online, and Frank Bajak, Associated Press, Technology Writer wrote: "Smarter Agent (using Location Based Services which incorporate GPS) will deliver real estate listings to mobile handsets based on a user's location. If you like a neighborhood but are nowhere near a computer, you'll be able to use a map on your cell phone screen to see what nearby houses are on the market, the asking price and other details. You'll even be able to search to see recent selling prices for comparable homes in the neighborhood. Smarter Agent, a registered Realtor, draws on the Multiple Listing Service used by agents across the nation on their Web sites." Eric M. Blumberg, President of Smarter Agent, demonstrates how his program can transmit real estate information to a user's cell phone. (Reed Saxon/Associated Press)

September 21, 2005
Smarter Agent named as one of the technologies to change the marketplace in 2006. "Smarter Agent takes location-based services in a new direction, delivering location-relevant content. The company’s initial application - real estate - empowers homebuyers. As compelling as that application is, the company was selected to be a part of this event because the Smarter Agent architecture could open a new and exciting variety of place-based mobile content services." Chris Shipley, Executive Producer, DEMO conferences.

May 2, 2005
Brad Blumberg, CEO Smarter Agent to speak at Directions magazine’s Location Technology and Business Intelligence Conference on May 2. "Is the Killer Consumer LBS Application Real Estate?"

March 17, 2005
Smarter Agent named BEST Commerce/Advertising/Buying/Billing wireless location-based application in the world. Philadelphia based Smarter Agent was awarded $85,000 in cash, licenses and marketing support at the NAVTEQ Global LBS (Location Based Services) Challenge.

January 18, 2005
More Leads: Internet, Wireless, Banks. Smarter Agent’s Relocation and Referral Network wins acclaim and grows nationally.

September 10, 2004
Homebuyers target of Nat Penn partnership
Now, through a partnership with Smarter Agent, National Penn Bank has simplified the home-buying process by offering a one-stop Internet product.

August 6, 2004
"The most audacious real estate innovation announced this year", reported Inman news.

May 13, 2004
Smarter Agent receives a military contract to build a wireless location-aware prototype.

March 1, 2004
Smarter Agent’s is featured in the March issue of Kiplinger’s Magazine. “A typical house stays on the market half as long as it did a decade ago, so buyers are turning to new technology (by Smarter Agent) to get a jump on listings", notes reporter Sean O’Neill.

February 20, 2004
Smarter Agent was named a “Technology Company of the Decade” finalist by Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia.

February 16, 2004
According to web tracking site alexa.com, smarteragent.com is now the most viewed site of all Philly region real estate brokers.

February 13, 2004
Builders Magazine notes how Smarter Agent can modernize the way consumers shop for homes in new subdivisions and communities.
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