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December 6, 2006
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"The system will pull-up homes where you are standing or anywhere in the country."
- Janet Zappala, All About You Host.
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December 2006
From New Jersey Life Magazine
REAL ESTATE - Power Tool In Buyer's Market
By Jerry Cheslow
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"In a down-turning market, buyers need up-to-date information to make sure they are
not paying yesterday's housing prices," says Smarter Agent President Eric Blumberg.
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Thursday, September 19, 2006
Article: "GPS Is Smartening Up Your Cell Phone"
National Public Radio, by Daniel Charles
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"Some of the new services now hitting the market show that GPS receivers are good for a lot more than tracking people. Among them is something called Smarter Agent. It's one of the new authorized services that you can buy if you are a Sprint/Nextel customer.
Brad Blumberg, the CEO of Smarter Agent, is happy to show off the service on his own phone. He pulls it out, selects "Smarter Agent" from a menu on the phone, and after a minute of waiting, the phone displays a tiny map of the area where Blumberg is standing. It happens to be on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., right in front of the Folger Shakespeare Library."
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Article: "Home buying goes high-tech"
NY POST
by Katherine Dykstra
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"Smarteragent.com:
You're walking down the street and find yourself in front of an adorable brownstone. "I'd kill to live here," you think. "I wonder how much it costs?" And so you pull out your Sprint/Nextel phone, fire up "Recently Sold Homes" and viola! Up comes the address, last sales price and sales date, thanks to GPS tracking technology combined with an aggregate of public sales information. The same technology can be used for rentals. Download it like a ring tone for $4.99 a month, plus data charges."
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Article: "LBS apps getting legs with biz users"
RCR Wireless News
by Joni Morse
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"Smarter Agent says the “Recently Sold Homes” service instantly returns information about the closest homes sold within the last three years, including the property’s last sold price, date, taxes and square footage."
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August 30, 2006
NY1 News
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Eric Blumberg President of Smarter Agent was interviewed by Jennifer Lee of NY1. Click the video clip link bellow to see why NY says, Smarter Agent... your hired!
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August 25, 2006
Article: "Recently Sold Homes A new GPS application for cell phones."
NY Newsday (Long Island, NY)
by LISA DOLL BRUNO
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"PURPOSE: To view data about recently sold homes, condos and multifamily dwellings bought within the last three years in 180 of the 200 largest U.S. markets, including Long Island. Also, to map recently sold homes in a particular area, as well as get on-the-spot information about the properties - address, last sale price, last sold date, taxes, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square-footage, year built and type of dwelling."
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August 24, 2006
Article: "Housing info on cell phone"
New York Daily News
by Phyllis Furman
New York Daily News Business Writer
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"Want to know how much houses are going for in a neighborhood? Pull out your cell phone and start tapping. Calling all real estate gossips: Hot stats are just a few phone clicks away, thanks to a new service from a tech company called Smarter Agent."
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August 20, 2006
Article: "Home data now at your fingertips
Smarter Agent lets you search by cell phone"
The Press of Atlantic City,
by J. Staas Haught
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"It's like when Capt. Kirk beams down and uses his transponder and says, 'Spock, tell me what's around me.' You're asking the phone to find you and then tell you what's there."
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August 14, 2006
Article: "Simplifying cellphone services"
The Boston Globe
by Mark Baard
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"Sprint is trying to make it easier for so-called voice-centric users -- those of us who use our phones primarily to make phone calls -- to access its On Demand and Power Vision services. The company is employing and testing new dynamic graphical interfaces and services that will update their content automatically to match your passions for football, sitcoms, or poker or dieting, you name it. Many of the services also take advantage of the GPS transponder included in virtually all new cellphones.
The Sprint services are aimed squarely at baby boomers and young adults, which the company sees as part of a vast, untapped market for its multimedia products.
One of the latest is Recently Sold Homes, which shoppers can use to instantly find sale prices and sale dates for properties in the area they are in, which the service determines based on the GPS coordinates of the cellphone. Recently Sold Homes also tells you the square footage and taxes on each of the homes sold within the last three years."
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August 14, 2006
Philadelphia's NBC 10, WCAU-TV
Consumer Alert - Find Out Cost Of Homes Instantly
by Tracey Davidson
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NBC10 aired a news segment demonstrating Recently Sold Homes. "If you have ever wondered how much homes are going for in a particular neighborhood, now you can get the information almost instantly," says Dawn Timmeney. "To use the service, you have to have a Sprint or Nextel handset. You can download the program and then pay $4.99 a month for unlimited use, plus a data charge starting at $10. Soon the service will list properties currently on the market," says Tracey Davidson.
Click here to view the NBC10 news segment demonstrating Smarter Agent's Recently Sold Home Search
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Article: "Home price info a phone call away"
LA Times - August 6, 2006
by Ann Brenoff, Times Staff Writer
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Sprint is the first cellphone service provider to give customers access to recent sales data.
Attention all real estate hounds and home voyeurs. Your cellphone can now answer that all-important question: What did it sell for?
The cellphone must be armed with a global positioning system — standard on most new phones — and
the data service Smarter Agent will beam the property price, size and date-of-sale information straight to your curious eyes.
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Article: " New aim, shoot technology rings up comps "
Chicago Tribune - July 30, 2006
by Mary Umberger
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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.
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July 22, 2006
Article: "Put your cell phone to work"
COMMUNICATOR - SPRING 2006 - ISSUE 41
by Brad Blumberg
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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.
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Article: "Smarter House Hunting"
Philadelphia Business Journal - July 21, 2006
by Peter Key
Staff Writer
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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.
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June 28, 2006
Smarter Agent is an Inman Innovator
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Inman News today released the names of the finalists for the coveted 2006 Inman Innovator Awards. Winners will be announced at the annual Real Estate Connect SF technology conference, July 26-28, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. 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.
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May 19, 2006
The State of New Jersey’s top Science-Technology group awards $50,000 grant to Smarter Agent.
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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.
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April 10, 2006
Pays to be 'smart'
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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
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February 22, 2006
Real estate news quote of the day
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(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.
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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
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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)
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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.
January 15, 2005
Brad Blumberg, CEO to speak at GPS-Wireless- 2005 Conference in San Francisco, Feb. 24. Session: New Mobile Technology and Markets
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.
July 27, 2004
Smarter Agent’s new product for Banks was featured in the
Courier Post business section. "Bank
Partners With Home Buying Website"
July 23, 2004
Smarter
Agent is recognized as one of the Best and Brightest in real
estate technology when they were named as a finalist in the "Inman
Innovator Awards...
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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here.
January 20, 2004
Smarter Agent’s new product for Banks was featured in the
January issue of Mortgage Banking magazine. Now Banks can let consumers
learn about their products and services before real estate agents
steer clients to their own affiliated lenders.
December 14, 2003
Military planning, mapping and wireless technology may help you
find your next house!
New Jersey Tech News.
December 13, 2003
"Smarter Agent real estate technology tested in West Chester"
By BARBARA WORTHINGTON page 1, 2.
Special to Local News
November 21, 2003
House hunting
with a GPS
by Natalie Kostelni, Philadelphia Business Journal
November
16, 2003
USA
Today article by AP Reporter Jeanne Ridgeway
National Public Radio (NPR) and New Jersey's 4th largest newspaper,
call Smarter Agent innovative. Read the article :
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November 12, 2003
Disclosure
should be real VOW issue
Home buyers need unfettered access to property information
October 1, 2003
Internet launch is a big hit with homebuyers. In
the fastest realty launch in Philadelphia history, smarteragent.com
clocked 20,000 hits per week - in just its second month of operation.
September 3, 2003
Cell
phone users lend ear at home listing
by Tom Kelly, Inman News Features
August 3, 2003
CEO Brad Blumberg is a guest on the "Real Estate Today" show hosted
by Tom Kelly which airs on KIRO-AM in Seattle and syndicated to
200 affiliates across the US, and 450 stations worldwide as part
of Armed Forces Radio.
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here to listen
July 25, 2003
Philadelphia:
Company Tests Property Information System
Realtor Magazine Online
July 23, 2003
Real
estate info anytime, anywhere
"Smarter Agent unveils location-aware service offering home
data via cell phone, PDA" by Jessica Swesey, Inman News
Features
June 24, 2003
Real
Estate On The Fly: CEO Brad Blumberg will be a speaker at Inman Real Estate Conference in San Francisco on July 25. The focus is the firm’s ground-breaking wireless ‘location-aware’ technology and its impact on the real estate industry.
December 17, 2002
Smarter Agent founders granted another United States patent. Patent
number 6,496,776 is entitled “Position-based information access
device and method”. Patent is key to the emerging wireless
location-based services market projected to grow to over 13 billion
dollars in size by 2005 by Cahners-In-Stat.
December 2, 2002
Smarter Agent launches “Best of the Best” Relocation
Services to give its clients access to the most tech savvy, consumer-focused
real estate agents in each city or town.
October 1, 2002
Alpha Grid, capitalizing on Smarter Agent technology, is recruited
to locate in a military focused incubator run by Drexel University
for the US Army’s CECOM division. See also: www.alphagrid.com
June 20, 2002
Smarter Agent awarded two research & development grants from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. The first grant sets up a relationship with Villanova University’s Center for Advanced Communications to create algorithms to increase the accuracy of Smarter Agent’s ground-breaking, wireless geospatial grid.
May 7, 2002
Patent awarded. Smarter Agent founder’s Brad and Eric Blumberg
are granted United States Patent 6,385,541 entitled “Global
Positioning-Based Real Estate Database Access Device and Method.”
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March 26, 2002
Smarter Agent wins ‘Most Innovative New Product Award'.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
STARS SHINE AT BEN FRANKLIN EMERGING BUSINESS AWARDS. Smarter Agent
was honored at the 8th Annual Ben Franklin Emerging Business Awards,
The Bennies. The Bennies were founded in 1994 by The Entrepreneurs'
Forum of Greater Philadelphia and Ben Franklin Technology Partners
of Southeastern PA to promote area companies in recognition of their
breakthrough technologies, product innovations and management excellence.
Smarter Agent won “Most Innovative Product”. Smarter
Agent uses Global Positioning and location technology to beam real
estate information to cell phones and PDAs.
March 26, 2002
Current investors - Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Blumberg Architecture,
and firm founders - invest seed capital and commit $500,000.00 to
Smarter Agent. Smarter Agent Legal & IP team includes Erik Miltch
of Cooley Godward and Roger Braunfeld and Paul Schieber of Blank
Rome. Ben Franklin Portfolio Advisor.
Interview with Brad Blumberg
Real Estate Will Never Be The Same
20 Questions with Smarter Agent's Brad Blumberg. [more]
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