CeBIT Visitors Welcome to Test Play Tiger Telematics' Gametrac Console - Compete for the Top Score and Win a Sports Car!
17 March 2004 - 3:59AM
PR Newswire (US)
CeBIT Visitors Welcome to Test Play Tiger Telematics' Gametrac
Console - Compete for the Top Score and Win a Sports Car! LONDON,
March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gametrac Europe Ltd, subsidiary
of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Tiger Telematics Inc. (TIGR), announced
today that as a part of its product awareness program, for the
first time, the public will be able to test play the
much-anticipated, multi-entertainment devices at CeBIT in Hanover
Germany (18-24 March). Who will be the first ever Gametrac
champion? Who is going to drive away with a brand new sports car?
You'll just have to visit Gametrac at CeBIT to find out. Gametrac
is a feature-packed handheld wireless gaming machine about to be
launched in the burgeoning mobile gaming market, loaded with
cutting edge features and functions. Gametrac is currently
developing groundbreaking games both in-house and through third
party developers that utilise all of the functions available on the
device. Collaborating with Advanced Cyber Entertainment GmbH WCG, a
gaming industry group who is invited to represent the gaming
industry at a 4,000 square metre space in Hall 16, visitors are
given the opportunity to test play games, in competition, with the
hotly anticipated Gametrac device at Stand 30. "Our participation
at CeBIT provides the perfect occasion to increase awareness and
let the public try out our device," says Patrik Wallgren, Head of
Global Public Relations. "On a daily basis, we're getting mails
from gamers wondering when they cantry the device or be part of a
test group. Now, at least, everyone in Hanover, at the CeBIT show,
gets the chance. And while trying it out, they will get the
opportunity to make the top game score, becoming the first ever
Gametrac game champion and winning a sports car prize." Gametrac is
a wireless handheld multi-entertainment device, built on the
Microsoft Windows CE.NET platform that features cutting-edge
gaming, an MP3 music player, video player, 400 MHz processor
multimedia messaging, GPS function and an in-built camera. The
device is due to launch later this year. About Tiger: Gametrac
Europe Ltd is a series of owned subsidiaries of Tiger Telematics
Inc. (NASDAQ:TIGR.PK) and is the maker of Gametrac, a
next-generation mobile entertainment device. Set to launch in the
UK in 2004, the gaming device includes in-built music, video,
messaging and picture functions. http://www.gametrac.com/
http://www.tigertelematics.com/ Tiger is a designer, developer and
marketer of mobile telematics systems and services that combine
global GPS functions and voice recognition technology to locate and
track vehicles and people down to street level in countries
throughout the world. The systems are designed to operate on GPS
and are currently beingmarketed to GSM current and potential
subscribers, primarily by the company's United Kingdom based
subsidiaries. Except for historical matters contained herein, the
matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking and are
made pursuant to the safe harbour provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned
that these forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions
and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect Tiger
Telematics, Inc. and its subsidiary businesses and prospects and
cause actual results to differ materially from these
forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause
actual results to differ are Tiger Telematics, Inc.'s operating
history; competition; low barriers to entry; reliance on strategic
relationships; rapid technological changes; inability to complete
transactions on favourable terms; and those risks discussed in the
Company's filings with the SEC. DATASOURCE: Tiger Telematics Inc.
CONTACT: Patrik Wallgren, Head of Global Public Relations, Gametrac
Europe Ltd, +44-7813-64-77-52, ; Mike Carrender, CEO, Tiger
Telematics, Inc., +1-904-279-9240; UK Media: Joss Hastings or Jon
Manning, +44-20-8741-1123, , for Gametrac Web site:
http://www.gametrac.com/ http://www.tigertelematics.com/
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