FollowUs Holdings PLC attracts £1.1million investment
May 2007
FollowUs Holdings PLC, the holding company for FollowUs Limited and FollowGB Limited is delight to announce that it has attracted an private investment of £1.1m in exchange for shares in the holding company. FollowUs Holdings is an unlisted and its shares do not presetnly trade on a stock exchange. Full journal archived.

Norman Shuker becomes Non-Exec Director
March 2007
Norman Shuker has accepted the role of a non-executive director for FollowUs. Norman was formerly the CEO of Pinnacle Insurance taking that business from 3m in 1987 to over 800m in 2006. Norman adds a wealth of experience to our strong board. Full journal Archived.

BBC Watchdog uses FollowUs GPS WIN200

February 2007
BBC's Watchdog uses the FollowUs Win200 GPS logger to expose practices of a 'meet and greet' parking service operated at one of the major airports in an undercover 'sting'. It performs superbly! Full journal Archived.

BBC South reports on FollowUs GPS system

January 2007
BBC South reports on regional television of the impact that road tolling may have on drivers. The BBC uses the FollowUs Trimtrac product to demonstrate the ease and efficiently of our devices is making this a reality for government. Full journal archived.

Southern Water uses FollowUs
January 2007
FollowUs, is pleased to confirm that Southern Water has chosen FollowUs to provide it with a mobile phone location capacity. Full journal archived.

FollowUs launch of new Win200 GPS Logger

December 2006
FollowUs is please to announce the release for sale the new Win200 GPS logger. This device acts as a blackbox for cars or other assets, and records the precise movement, location, speed and direction of the item that it is attached too, whilst only being the size of a matchbox. Full journal archived.

Quikker uses FollowUs

October 2006
Quikker, the bluetooth hotspot providers, have chosen to use FollowUs to help them monitor and secure the location of the GSM/Bluetooth enabled communication devices. Full journal archived.

Secure mail appoints FollowUs to help monitor asset movement

September 2006
Secure mail, who are responsible for courier'ing documentation have chosen FollowUs to assist them in the monitor for their delivery vehicles. Full journal archived.

GTH appointed as PR specialist

August 2006
FollowUs is delighted to announce the appointment of GTH as its PR specialist representative. GTH have offices in London, New York and Geneva and are leaders in this sector. Full journal archived.

Anthony Fry accepts role as Finance Director
July 2006
Anthony Fry RCA, has accepted the role of FD for FollowUs. Anthony formerly worked with CPW in their merger and acquisitions department before becoming senior partner in Hakim Fry. The appointment to the FollowUs board is effective forthwith. Full journal archived.

FollowUs welcomes with 65,000th User
July 2006
Followus is delighted to welcome its 65,000 registered user to its mobile phone tracking service. Martin Pinnell-Brown, Managing Director of FollowUs says, "This is a wonderful endorsement to Followus and demonstrates the care and attention applied by the team in ensuring our service is 2nd to none...." Full journal Archived.

Insurance4mobiles.co.uk becomes FollowUs reseller
July 2006
Insurance4mobiles a specialist UK web provider of mobile phone insurance products has become a reseller of the Followus service. Insurnace4mobiles say "We are pleased to be associated with and able to offer the FollowUs mobile phone tracking solution to our customers". Full journal Archived.



FollowUs to receive T-Mobile silver application partner status

June 2006
FollowUs is please to confirm that it is to come a T-Mobile silver application partner for their business solution sales.

T-Mobile are in the process of implementing a new partner status program to enhance their sales into the business section in a effort to capitalise on the movement of revenues from voice to data and FollowUs form part of their portfolio of application offerings Full Journal Archived.



FollowUs continues technology trials with NHS

May 2006
FollowUs, is pleased to confirm that trials have commenced with NHS Innovations for the provision of personal GPS tracking solutions to assist persons who wander with dementia. With this in mind, FollowUs has completed the new wanderingindementia.co.uk web site for NHS innovations that will be used as the portal for the promotion and sales of the hardware/software solutions into the private sector and PCT trusts by NHS Innovations. Full journal archived.



FollowUs becomes Microsoft partner

March 2006
FollowUs, is now a reseller partner with Microsoft using their MapPoint and Virtual Earth mapping utility in its platform. This greatly enhances the FollowUs proposition giving it far greater flexibility in the deliver of digital maps, route direction together with my other features on a global level. Full journal archived.

FollowUs/ GB& Trisent partner to offer unique tracking solution
March 2006
FollowUs, FollowGB and Trisent have partnered to offer a new bread of GSM tracking solutions. Trisent has developed a unique GSM-based technology that is fully automated, real-time and high resolution; providing live location information at a lower cost.

The technology is software-based and network independent, so there is no hardware to buy. Access to live and historical location information, maps and reports is achieved via best-in-class FollowGB software interface. Full journal Archived.



FollowUs & FollowGB offers Matrix solution

February 2006
FollowUs and its sister company FollowGB are the first independents in the UK to offer the Matrix enabled CPS solution into the UK. Matrix is a full cell triangulation technology offering location accuracy of 100m both inside and outside of buildings. Please contact us for more information. Full journal Archived.

Mobile Phone Insurer to resell FollowUs location service

January 2006
Mobile Phone Insurer, Mobile Phone Supercover, and FollowUs have conclude a resale agreement to allow FollowUs mobile phone tracking accounts to be automatically offered to their new customers as a USP to their fast grown insurance service. Mobile Phone Supercover is one of the Uk's largest independent mobile phone insurance companies. Full journal Archived.



FollowUs and CellTrack to launch in Asia

November 2005
FollowUs is pleased to confirm that its partner CellTrack
International, headquartered in London, has become the world's first LBS
outsourcing provider. CellTrack in conjunction with FollowUs and others to provide turnkey solutions to cellular operators, thereby enabling rapid
LBS deployment of a customized suite of location based products, some of
which are based on the FollowUs platform. The CellTrack brand is
primarily focused on countries in the developing world. Full journal
Archived.


FollowUs reaches the 50,001 user mark
October 2005
Followus is delighted to welcome its 50,001 registered user to its mobile phone tracking service. Full journal Archived.


FollowUs captures a 3rd UK water utility company

September 2005
Followus has re-enforced it position as the UK's most successful mobile phone location provider by securing it's 3rd major UK utility company in as many months. Full journal Archived.

FollowUs launches it FollowGB shopping cart site

July 2005
Followus is pleased to announce it's launch of the www.FollowGB.com shopping cart site. This enables its customers to purchase state-of-the-art GPS tracking hardware, and then utilise the FollowUs software to track its devices down to a couple of meters using global mapping. Full Journal Archived.

Followus partners with T-Mobile
May 2005
Followus is delighted to announce that it has formally partnered with T-Mobile to assist their corporate sales and pre-technical sales teams in the promotion of mobile phone tracking into the T-Mobile business customer base. FollowUs is the first UK provider to conclude this type of agreement with major UK network. Full Journal Archived.


Followus to launch Trimtrac platform

April 2005
Followus has announced that it's GPS beta application will, on launch, support the flagship Trimtrac product. Formal release of the platform will take place in May 2005 and offers a truly unique plug-and-play, low cost, and fully scaleable global tracking and mapping solution.


Followus - headlines Courier Direct magazine
February 2005
FollowUs has headlined Courier Direct magazine this month who consider the unique offering that FollowUs delivers to the small to medium size courier business who want to track a mobile phone. Full Journal Archived.

 
February 2005
FollowUs reported in the USA's main financial broadsheets
London -
"There's no need to wonder where your loved ones are any more. The FollowUs service launched in the U.K. allows you to find the location of their mobile phone…..They don't provide pinpoint accuracy but can give a an approximate location of a person's location using existing mobile network systems. Full Journal Archived.
FollowUs expands into Northern Ireland

January 2005
FollowUs are delight to announce that they have now expanded their Mobile Phone Tracking solution into Northern Ireland. This is Phase One of their drive into other territories this year which include Pakistan, and the Far East. Full Journal Archived.


Followus - enhancing mobile phone tracking with Vodafone
December 2004
FollowUs is pleased to confirm that, in conjunction with Vodafone, we are now delivering Timing Advance to our customers. This means that we can reliably locate Vodafone mobiles two or three times more accurately than the other networks. For more information see our exciting new developments page.

FollowUs - the UK's number 1 mobile phone tracking provider
October 2004
FollowUs is delighted to welcome its 25,000th registered user, who is a well known software design house for the PlayStation and X-Box consoles. Martin Pinnell-Brown, Managing Director of FollowUs says, "We are delighted with the progress that FollowUs continues to make in the business community, and we are particularly encouraged with the steady rise in business and blue chip companies that are using FollowUs as their mobile phone location provider of choice..". FollowUs has positioned itself as the leading mobile phone tracking provider in the UK.


FollowUs - Radio Five Live examines FollowUs phone tracking
September 2005
Radio Five Live reviewed the FollowUs mobile phone location service throughout the day with listeners calling in to discuss the benefits and disadvantages. The overall feed back from listeners was very positive.

Loan worker protection for London Borough Authority

September 2004
FollowUs has been chosen to provide loan worker protection to a government funded community project, to support them in the Health and Safety of their employees by tracking their mobile phones.. Full Journal Archived.

Perfect Solution for Morrison Utility Services PLC
August 2004
FollowUs has been implemented by Morrison Utilities to supported them in the Health and Safety for their field engineers by tracking their mobile phones. Full Journal Archived.



FollowUs uses Thawte to secure Step 1 of Registration
July 2004
FollowUs makes further security of data enhancements by implementing Thawte on its registration pages. Thawte's features are that it employs 128-bit SSL SuperCert, confirms that we are who we say we are in a virtual world and encrypts information sent to and from our web server, thus preventing data from being tampered with.

FollowUs partner text-link.co.uk launch their new services
May 2004
FollowUs partner, Text-Link (www.text-link.co.uk) have this month recently launched their revised web site to compliment their new range of location products for car, motorbike, caravan, and trailer security. Full Journal Archived.

FollowUs drives forward licensing of their location platform into new territories Subscribers forecast to exceed 1.3billion by 2006
March 2004
Industry leaders are predicting an explosion in the number of location-enabled subscribers over the next 3 years to a potential 1.3 billion, with revenues 5 times in excess of that figure. FollowUs has been the UK market leader from day one with its location platform and....have taken the decision...to make its solution available under licence to 3rd parties in new territories. This will enable individuals to reduce development and implementation times from many months to just weeks".



Telegraph Newspaper reports on FollowUs Mobile Phone Tracking Solution 'Snooping protest as firms track their workers mobiles'
March 2004
The Telegraph reports, 'Rapidly growing numbers of workers are having their movements monitored by their bosses through signals from their mobile phones…it allows them to tell clients when to expect goods or consultants more accurately. Parents can also make use it…to check on their children'. The real benefit is the ability for them to improve their customer care and use their work force efficiently by tracking their mobile phones'. Full Journal Archived.

'GPS or GSM Mobile Phone Tracking?'
February 2004
Land Mobile reports that GSM- location based services offer a serious alternative to satellite tracking. Whilst GPS solutions can offer location to a meter or so in accuracy, the majority of users don't to know this. FollowUs gives an approximate location of their mobiles without the need for them to buy expensive GPS hardware saving a fortune on CAP-EX. Full Journal Archived.



Daily Mirror Newspaper reports on FollowUs Mobile Phone Tracking Solution
January 2004
In true tabloid style the Mirror reports, 'It's the kind of thing that only happens in films….The hero desperately searching for the terrorist, or the kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer…a map comes up on the screen pinpointing the precise location…the good guys move in and the hunt is over….not a script writers dream……the technology has arrived..' FollowUs Managing Director, Martin Pinnell-Brown says "As exciting as that may sound, in reality, the FollowUs platform doesn't really mix in the same world as 007! However, subject to a person activating their mobile for location (by use of our SMS feature), then the ability to track mobile phones with FollowUs is here and now." Full Journal Archived.



Financial Times praises FollowUs Mobile Phone Tracking
December 2003 “The futuristic world portrayed in Steven Spielberg's film, Minority Report, where holographic advertisements address passers-by by name may be nearer than we thought. Locator services being pioneered by. …FollowUs enable people to locate individual mobile phone users, provided they have given their consent to be tracked…Location technology on mobile phones is continuing to evolve and get more accurate...."

FollowUs launches its HomeUser Mobile Phone Tracking Service
November 2003
FollowUs is pleased to offer location to HomeUsers with its friend and family finding service. Full Journal Archived.

FollowUs working for safe implementation of LBS
November 2003
FollowUs as part of it's commitment to the secure introduction of this technology, is working closely with the 5 network operators and the Home Office to assist in the creation of industry guidelines. Full Journal Archived.


Bill Colley accepts role as FollowUs Chairman
October 2003
Bill Colley, accepts role of Chairman for FollowUs. Bill formerly holding Directorship positions in both Dixon's and the Caudwell Group has joined FollowUs as its new Chairman, effective forthwith. Full Journal Archived.

FollowUs Mobile Phone Tracking is just up Siemens street!
September 2003
Siemens have chosen FollowUs to offer LBS services into one of their group businesses. Full Journal Archived.

Multinational Massa Group implement FollowUs
July 2003
Multinational Massa Group is to extend its implementation of the FollowUs system to all its infield employees and key people. David Pinkney, Commercial Director says, "We have found the HSE and Commercial drivers, when balanced against the nil capex to our business, has made the decision to implement this solution cross the company compelling". Full Journal Archived.



FollowUs offers LBS across 4 networks
June 2003
FollowUs becomes the first location provider to offer location across all 4 networks within the UK - Full Journal Archived.

FollowUs offer Mobile Phone Tracking on Vodafone and O2 networks
March 2003
FollowUs becomes the first location provider to offer location across both the Vodafone and 02 networks - Full Journal Archived.

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