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Gearworks Surpasses 6,000 Customer Milestone

Growth Fueled by Wireless Carriers' Need to Drive Data and Customers' Need to Increase Efficiency of Their Mobile Workforces

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gearworks, a leading provider of carrier-delivered, location-based mobile business applications, announced today that it surpassed 6,000 customers across the U.S. The announcement comes on the heels of Gearworks receiving industry recognition from several leading industry analyst and research firms, including being named “Mobile Player to Watch in 2008” by IDC and lauded for Growth Strategy Leadership in the U.S. mobile resource management (MRM) by Frost & Sullivan.

“Gearworks growth is attributable to our position at the nexus to two significant market trends in the U.S.,” said Todd Krautkremer, president and chief executive officer for Gearworks. “Companies of all sizes that are mobile workforce-dependent are seeking to leverage GPS-enabled mobile applications to drive greater productivity at lower costs, especially in light of escalating fuel and labor costs, and wireless carriers are looking for ways to accelerate growth of their data and business services as consumer and voice offerings rapidly commoditize.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, the total market revenues for carrier-delivered and location-enabled MRM applications will increase to more than $1.6 billion by 2013. By leveraging its Appmosphere™ mobile application delivery platform, Gearworks enables its wireless carrier partners to tap into this huge opportunity by equipping them with a portfolio of location-based mobile business applications that they can sell to their diverse base of business customers. From a customer perspective, acquiring these solutions from their carrier on a monthly subscription basis is easy and allows them to be up, running and reaping the business benefits within a matter of days, if not hours.

About Gearworks
Gearworks provides an industry-leading carrier-class platform for location-based mobile applications that help businesses reduce fuel, overtime, and other operating costs, increase employee productivity and safety, and improve customer satisfaction. Through the Gearworks Appmosphere™ platform, wireless carriers deliver location-based mobile business applications to market faster, software vendors mobilize their applications easily, and enterprises cost-effectively integrate and deploy their back-office applications and business processes to their mobile workforce through any wireless carrier on any mobile device. Appmosphere is the technology foundation for Gearworks’ mobile workforce management applications, including etrace® and other carrier-branded products. With Appmosphere and its applications, the company serves thousands of small-to-medium-sized business and enterprise customers across a broad range of industries — including healthcare, field service, home and store delivery, construction, utilities and government services.

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Brian Wachtler
Haberman & Associates
612.338.3900
brianw@habermaninc.com

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