LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GetFugu, Inc. (OTCBB:GFGU) www.getfugu.com, the revolutionary new method of accessing the Internet through mobile phones, revealed today that Health Matrix's (HealthMatrix.com) first commercial application utilizing GetFugu's mobile phone technology is a pharmacy discount card offered free of charge to the consumer regardless of whether the consumer has prescription drug coverage. This discount prescription drug card provides up to 50% savings on all prescription drugs in over 50,000+ pharmacies across the United States.
"We are very excited to extend the unique GetFugu application to the healthcare world and in doing so provide an immediate cost free benefit to the consumer of prescription drugs," Dr. Kharazmi commented. "Utilizing GetFugu's amazing technology, simply say "Pharmacy" and your mobile phone will download the Health Matrix discount prescription drug card. Provide your pharmacist with the card or the card number and obtain up to a 50% discount on prescription drugs on this as well as future purchases."
GetFugu premiered its four unique "See It," vision recognition (ARL) "Say It," voice recognition (VRL) "Find It," location recognition (GRL) and "Get It," Hot-Spotting services on 09/09/09, and is swiftly deploying it around the world. "GetFugu is proud to participate with Health Matrix to provide a means of reducing the high cost of prescription drugs," commented Rich Jenkins, Executive Vice President and co-founder of GetFugu. "This is the first of many endeavors where the principals of Health Matrix will use their extensive experience in the health care field coupled with GetFugu's technology on mobile devices to bring never before seen uses to the health care community and consumers."
About GetFugu:
GetFugu, Inc. is the first technology architect to provide a carrier agnostic, platform agnostic mobile search platform. GetFugu will change the way people access the web with their mobile phones. It is designed to encourage use of its applications by simply integrating the mobile phones' core strengths (image recognition, voice recognition, location recognition) into a single customizable application. Additionally, GetFugu offers the only mobile hot-spotting ecommerce platform available worldwide today. The GetFugu platform will be available for 97% of the mobile phones available (over 3.3 billion handsets) worldwide.
About Health Matrix
Health Matrix is a mobile Health Care Marketing company that provides connectivity, benefits and cost containment solutions between consumers, health care providers, employers and the health care industry.
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