LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTX Corp (OTCBB:GTXO) has won the prestigious 2010 People's Choice Award for Most Innovative Connected Location Device at the 4th Annual Locations & Beyond Summit this past week.
"We are honored to have won this prestigious award and look forward to continue to bring innovative and game changing technologies that transform how we utilize GPS tracking and stay connected to one another," says Patrick Bertagna, CEO and founder of GTX Corp. "GTX is known for its ground breaking and now award winning patented GPS Smart Shoe and its block buster Smartphone GPS Tracking Apps and continues to pave the way with innovative geo specific and proximity alerting http://www.gpstrackingapps.com/">GPS tracking applications that help you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button."
The theme of this year's Locations & Beyond Summit was "Connecting everything, everyone, and every place in a location-aware world," where the future of the industry, the latest innovations, growth potential, and latest services and products were discussed.
"The Locations & Beyond Summit is quickly developing a reputation as one of the foremost strategic forums for the key decision makers of the connected location industry, and the People's Choice award winners reflect their judgment on how well they demonstrated the benefits of using the power of location to enhance the daily lives of individuals, enterprises and industries," said Kanwar Chadha, chief marketing officer and board member of CSR and founder of SiRF. "We congratulate GTX Corp for being chosen by these top global location industry executives for the Most Innovative Connected Location Device category, and look forward to the unique contribution they will make to the evolution of the location industry."
Attending the evening award ceremony were industry executives from AT&T, T-Mobile, SiRF, CSR and a host of other industry leaders, who also attended the CTIA show to exchange ideas about the convergence of connectivity and location-based services; something GTX Corp has been at the forefront for 8 years and now awarded by its peers in the industry.
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