Year: 2008

Any consumer can turn their cell phone into a house-seeking real estate finder

  From the Smarter Agent Nation’s leading real estate brokers enter red-hot mobile space in a big way via Smarter Agent Smarter Agent’s Homes for Sale mobile search launches today, accessible to over 50 million AT&T and Sprint customers on 80 different cell phone models. Over 99% of all mobile location-aware real estate activity is…

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AT&T launch GPS-enabled apartment search

  From Phonemag AT&T launch GPS-enabled apartment search Smarter Agent have been helping Sprint customers find new places to live for a few years now, with their GPS-enabled Apartments for Rent app; the software allows mobile users to locate available property, view details and even directly call the letting agent to make a viewing appointment. Now…

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Real estate info device maker Smarter Agent gets $6M

  From Philadelphia.BizJournals.com By Peter Key, Staff Writer   A company whose applications enable cell phone users to get information about nearby homes and apartments has received a private-equity funding of $6.2 million to make the applications widely available this year.

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Get smarter when it comes to apartment hunting

From Geek.com: By Brian Osborne Smarter Agent announced a new application that will make apartment hunting a little easier. The new application called “Apartments for Rent” uses GPS-based mobile searches to find apartments for rent, which are close to your location. The application really will change the way most people look for an apartment by…

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Q&A with Eric Blumberg, Smarter Agent

  By Ludovic Privat, Co-founder and Editor GPS Business News While the U.S. real estate market is in turmoil, location-based services focusing on real estate information are emerging and starting to show some good consumer interest. Eric Blumberg, co-founder of Smarter Agent is answering our question about his business and the location-based services market as…

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Apartment Hunting Goes Mobile

From Multi-HousingNews.com By Teresa O’Dea Hein, Managing Editor Camden, N.J. — To facilitate the apartment hunting/marketing process, a new technology combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate listings, neighborhoods and nearby places of interest delivered to cell phones and other mobile devices. Smarter Agent has earned three patents for its…

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SmarterAgent launch Homes For Sale at CES

  By Mike Barrett http://www.pocketgpsworld.com SmarterAgent is a name that some of you may recognize if you follow our event reports. They have been contestants in the Navteq LBS challenge, and they lent me a version of “Apartments for Rent” when I came to CTIA Orlando. Last week they launched “Homes for Sale” at CES….

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