ATLANTA, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Numerex Corp. (NASDAQ: NMRX), a leading provider of full-service, highly secure machine-to-machine (M2M) network services and solutions, today announced that it has acquired Ublip Inc., a fast growing privately-held machine-to-machine (M2M) software and services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

“Our mission to provide a full range of comprehensive M2M services to the industry is significantly advanced with the acquisition of Ublip. We gain from an infusion of technology that includes middleware designed to simplify application development and deployment, and ‘virtual’ hosting architecture,” stated Stratton Nicolaides, CEO and chairperson of Numerex. “In addition, we have a small group of dedicated M2M industry experts who are joining our Numerex family, led by Dr. Jeffrey O. Smith, a current member of our Board of Directors. I am very pleased to announce that Jeff will join our executive management team as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Smith will resign from the Numerex Board of Directors, effective immediately, and will head the Company’s Science and Technology Committee.”

The Ublip infrastructure and software enable the rapid creation of Web-based M2M applications, and when coupled with existing Numerex network technology and infrastructure, provide a resilient and reliable hosting environment for M2M solutions. Numerex’s strategy of simplifying the deployment process is an important key to sustainable growth in the industry. Typically, application developers must identify hardware (radio modules, servers), understand and select wireless networks, build communications software, and the front-end web application. Ublip ‘Foundation’ technology and software simplifies and ‘jumpstarts’ the application development process, and has the capacity to support several different devices, wireless networks, and protocols.

Dr. Jeffrey O. Smith, a Founder and the President of Ublip, added: “I am excited to join a remarkably skilled and experienced team of dedicated professionals, in particular a team of engineers and other technology experts who have worked with Numerex for many years. A Numerex/Ublip combination makes perfect sense since it marries Numerex’s ubiquitous network platforms and gateway technology with Ublip’s ability to help customers optimize the way they work through the use of a flexible and efficient application environment. It amplifies our joint market reach. I am confident that this new step will be successful for all parties involved since we already have common customers that are benefiting from our combined solutions.”

Dr. Smith will head the Company’s extensive information technology and development initiatives. He will also significantly participate in the development of Numerex long-term strategic planning. Ublip systems, operations, and its ‘virtual’ hosting architecture will be fully integrated into existing Numerex infrastructure in order to create a seamless M2M service platform capable of serving multiple vertical markets.

With Ublip, Numerex and third party developers will be able to build applications that are device-independent and can function across diverse operating systems. The integration of the Ublip foundation, i.e., a scalable hosting environment that brings an application to life, within the Numerex portfolio of services will bolster and support innovation in growing M2M markets. Both Ublip and Numerex customers are expected to reap the benefit from access to wider and deeper capabilities.

Ublip was merged into a Numerex wholly-owned subsidiary and will be fully integrated into the Company’s operations. The aggregate consideration for the transaction includes approximately 400,000 shares of restricted Numerex Class A Common Stock and approximately $300,000 in cash.

Mr. Nicolaides continued, “Facing these challenging economic conditions, this is no time to sit still. Our M2M products and services offer security, enhance productivity, and create efficiencies for customers in a variety of markets. Even though we don’t anticipate a material financial contribution from Ublip operations in the short-run, we do expect to hit the ground running with our newest M2M products and services. We believe this will immediately and significantly improve our M2M business development prospects and create new and distinct competitive advantages.”

While the Company has not yet finalized its third quarter results, revenues are expected to exceed $18.7 million that compares to revenues of $17.4 million in the second quarter of 2008 and $16.0 million in the third quarter of 2007; and represents relative growth rates of 7.5% and 16.9%, respectively. In addition, Numerex will report over 690,000 active network connections at the end of September 2008, compared to 617,000 as of June 30, 2008 and 386,000 at the end of September 2007, which represents relative growth rates of 11.8% and 78.8%, respectively. Also, the Company’s cash position strengthened during the quarter with an ending cash balance of $8.4 million compared to $6.2 million at the end of the second quarter. In addition, the Company reiterates its expectations of achieving full-year profitability.

About Numerex

Numerex Corp. (NASDAQ: NMRX) provides the broadest choice of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) network services and solutions. Numerex delivers a depth of expertise and excellence through its M2M service platforms — Networx, Techworx, and Flexworx — that leading companies choose to power their M2M solutions. Numerex is the first M2M Company in North America to carry ISO 27001 certification — ISO’s highest information security benchmark that ensures data confidentiality, integrity and availability. The Company offers its M2M products and services through a variety of brands including Uplink and Orbit One. Numerex is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For additional information, visit http://www.numerex.com. For additional information regarding Ublip, visit http://www.ublip.com

A lot of people have asked us what is really special, or different, about the Ublip “Foundation” technology - which we think is a key breakthrough in accelerating the deployment of low-cost M2M and location based applications, such as GPS Tracking & Mobile Equipment monitoring.

I’ll admit that the name isn’t very different or creative - we just couldn’t come up with anything better that implied a simple, easy, fast way to build, deploy and customize applications - that is completely hardware & network agnostic. So Foundation it is!

One thing we haven’t talked about much, though, is how our Foundation’s technology approach not only is simple and effective, it also utilizes many of the most important technologies now emerging. In this article, Gartner highlights the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies of 2008″. And its astonishing to see how many items on this list are inherent in our Foundation, including: ‘virtual’ hosting architecture, composite application & ‘mashup’ creation, web services oriented architecture & what is called the “real world web”.

I think it’s good to know for our corporate customers that working with Ublip helps them take advantage of the most important emerging technologies - without having to make any investment on their part.

We’ve been hard at work trying to make integrating 3rd party devices easy for our customers (and customers to be). The Ublip Foundation now has support for the Orbit One SX1 satellite tracking device and the Xirgo XT2000 GSM tracking device. It’s a great time to be developing M2M applications and I’m always excited to see new devices hit the market. Rest assured, we’ll be working hard to make it easier for you to build end-to-end solutions.

This may seem a bit random for this blog, but Web 2.0 is only as good as the tools that deliver it.

Using Web 2.0 applications may have been viewed through the lens of either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox (on a Windows machine), but now a third alternative has come forward and I think it has just taken the lead in the “horse race:” It’s Google’s Chrome web browser!

I’ve been noticing that IE and FF have routinely been consuming 150M and even up to 300M on my Vista machine. Both feel clunky and slow.

But I’ve been using Google’s new Chrome browser and I’m shocked how fast and snappy it is — AND how stable, even though it’s still in “Beta.” A quick check of RAM consumption shows it taking only 20-30M of RAM for similar usage scenarios as IE and FF.

Try it yourself and see what you think: http://www.google.com/chrome

It’s an exciting time to be an application developer. Many projects are cropping up that allow end-users to share their location with an application. A recent initiative called Mozilla Geocode was announced and looks very promising. It appears to be using Skyhook’s Wifi positioning technology.

Relating to M2M applications I can think of all sorts of interesting uses for the Geode technology. If you think about most location based M2M applications, there’s generally a mobile asset that is being tracked or monitored. For example, a dispatcher may be interested in sending the nearest cab to a customer. Using Geode a customer could access the cab company’s website and find the cab closest to their current location. There are several industries where optimizing the dispatching process, and putting it the hands of the customer, could prove extremely valuable.

Geode is available as a Firefox plugin, which you can get here. It also uses the implementation of the Geolocation API Specification, which is in its early stages. My first experience with Geode was very positive and had my location within 50m of accuracy. Given that it uses Skyhook’s technology this doesn’t surprise me at all since my previous experience with Loki was very positive. Here’s a sample screen of Geode’s lookup service, which happened almost instantaneously:

At Ublip, our philosophy is to enable application developers to create M2M applications through the use of our Foundation architecture. Foundation makes it easy to get data from remote assets while Geode makes it easy to get an end-user’s location. The combination of the two will lead to some very interesting applications.