NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The iPhone, one of
the most relied upon devices for getting information, connecting
with your friends, and listening to music, can now be used to
receive life-saving alerts. Today, Global Alert Network (GAN)
announced that its free, hyper-local alert audio application is now
available for download in the iTunes App Store.
The GAN app provides audio alerts that are geo-targeted to the
user's location ensuring timely, accurate information about traffic
incidents, weather conditions, certain emergency notifications such
as Amber Alerts, or other future services to which the user
subscribes.
"There is huge demand for Apple products right now - the iPhone
market represents nearly 25 percent of the Smartphone community. We
are excited to debut our app to these users and expand our customer
base," said Scott Hughes, President
of Global Alert Network. "The GAN app was created as a channel to
help people in every day life – from easing their commutes and
making sure they have their umbrellas in the morning, to alerting
them about Amber Alerts and potentially saving lives. The app
has seen such a great response from BlackBerry and Android users to
date, we wanted to expand this service to include the millions of
iPhone users out there so they can benefit too."
To download the application, users can search for "Global Alert
Network" in the App Store and download instantaneously. After the
account is created, the application runs in the background and
'wakes up' to present alerts and information based upon the
preferences of the user. Once the iPhone user hears the tone
alerting him or her to an important traffic or weather alert, that
person simply unlocks the device and the alert plays automatically.
Traffic alerts are sent out to users based on a driver's route and
location and weather alerts can be selected by users when they
indicate their current location or areas of interest.
GAN is a free application that generates revenues from selling
brief, advertisements to run within the alerts. This
effective form of advertising ensures that 100% of ads are heard by
the app users, offering great benefit to GAN's advertising
partners.
Global Alert Network's content partners include: Clear Channel
Radio's Total Traffic Network and AccuWeather.com. Alerts currently
available include traffic, weather and certain local emergency
information such as Amber alerts. The Company plans to expand its
content channels to include sports and news as well.
Global Alert Network is now free to download in the App Store
and is also available on Blackberry and Android devices through
AppWorld and Android Market.
For more information visit:
http://mediakit.globalalertnetwork.com.
About Global Alert Network
Global Alert Network (http://www.globalalertnetwork.com/) is a
national mobile platform that provides safe, automatic, hands-free
audio alerts to a user's mobile phone. The app, which is free
to download, senses when the user is driving and initiates
automatically. Global Alert Network (GAN) is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Global Traffic Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNET), a
leading provider of custom traffic and news reports to radio and
television stations.
CONTACTS:
Anne Donohoe / Samantha Wolf
(212) 896-1261 / (212) 896-1220
adonohoe@kcsa.com / swolf@kcsa.com
SOURCE Global Alert Network (GAN)