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MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 5BARz International Inc. (OTCBB: BARZ), (Boerse-Berlin: O5B), (www.5BARz.com) (hereafter "5BARz" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Mr. George Lauro has agreed to be a Member of the Advisory Board of the Company.  Mr. Lauro is the Co-founder of Alteon Capital Partners LLC (Alteon), with offices in Cambridge, MA and Silicon Valley.    

Mr. Lauro has 25 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and venture capitalist.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of 17 public and private companies and has been Chairman of board-level Compensation, Budget and Audit Committees.

Mr. Lauro was Managing Director at Techfarm Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, and was a Wasserstein Perella Partner and head of West Coast VC operations. He led and syndicated 15 private equity financing rounds and LBO control deals. As a VC, he served as Interim CEO, raised over $100M equity financing for portfolio companies, and was involved in M&A transactions exceeding $1B in combined value. He was VP of Corporate Development at Acquicor , a publicly traded SPAC that acquired Jazz Semiconductor in 2007. At IBM, Mr. Lauro was Director of Rapid Commercialization and ran a team responsible for bringing advanced technology from IBM central research labs to market. He was Director of IBM's Wireless IC, Silicon Germanium (SiGe), and RF BICMOS Businesses. At Motorola, he conceived the world's first consumer handheld Global Positioning Product (Traxar GPS), invented new classes of RF transponders, and launched Motorola's businesses in these sectors. He began his career at MIT/Draper Laboratory designing inertial guidance systems for missiles and spacecraft. He led the development of spacecraft guidance systems at Astronautics Corporation. He attended Brown (BSEE), Wharton (MBA) and MIT (graduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering). He holds 23 patents in inertial guidance, avionics, wireless technologies, and GPS.

Mr. Daniel Bland, President and CEO of 5BARz International Inc., states "we could not be more delighted to have George Lauro's practical working experience and detailed technology capability brought to the table in commercializing the 5BARz business opportunity.  George's past experience, and hands on operating style are a welcome addition to our growing team of executives at 5BARz. Mr. Lauro joins fellow Advisory Board member Mr. Marcello Caputo (CEO of Telefonica USA) in an advisory capacity, as we integrate the 5BARz™ technology into the wireless marketplace in the Americas and beyond."

About 5BARz International Inc.

5BARz International Inc. holds the exclusive global marketing and distribution rights and holds a 50% ownership interest in the technology underlying the 5BARz™ products. 5BARz™ is a cellular network extender for use in the small office, home and mobile market places. 5BARz™ incorporates a patent-pending technology to create a highly engineered, single-piece, plug 'n play unit that strengthens weak cellular signals to deliver high quality signals for voice, data and video reception on cell phones and other cellular equipped devices. 5BARz™  represents a key solution for cellular network operators in providing clear, high quality signal for their subscribers with a growing need for high quality connectivity.

 

5BARz International Inc.'s shares are publicly traded on the OTCBB under the ticker symbol BARZ in the US and on the Berlin Stock Exchange (www.boerse-berlin.com) under symbol "O5B."

On behalf of the Board of Directors

"Mr. Daniel Bland" CEO & Director

5BARz International Inc.

 

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Clear some room in your suitcase, the 5BARz Road Warrior is coming along. Delivering up to 20x faster Internet and clear calls in dead zones, the 5BARz Road Warrior is the industry’s first affordable, portable plug ‘n play cell signal extender. The 5BARz Road Warrior can be used from any location where power is available, including the car, office, hotel room, or home. The unit is easy to use and requires no rooftop or window antennas with the ability to boost multiple devices in the same area.
Everyone has experienced the frustration of trying to call their significant other or boss to check in while away and not being able to get service. If the most basic purpose of a cell phone or other handheld device is to communicate, shouldn’t this basic function be preserved regardless of where you are located?

As any avid traveler knows, when on the road, being connected to your life at home is just as important as having your credit card. When you are in unfamiliar territory, the signal strength for your smartphone isn’t the same as in your hometown. Travelers spend a great deal of time trying to connect to and use their devices–this constant disturbance caused by spotty coverage can really take away from your travel experience. The biggest problem may not be the connection itself, it’s that people are accepting this frustration as a way of life.

5BARz can take away the frustrating experience of frequent dropped calls and dread-zones. Bring along the 5BARz Road Warrior and enjoy your travels with the comfort and confidence of being connected wherever your adventure may take you.

While the National Broadband Plan seeks ways to deliver service to rural U.S. areas, there are plenty of city dwellers plagued with spotty service, even within the same house. Carriers have offered fixed-base units for home use called Femto cells, but a small company located in southern California offers the first portable device designed for consumers.

The CelLynx 5BARz Road Warrior can be used with any carrier and with any device to extend a cell phone signals to their maximum five bars.

The current demand for new bandwidth-hungry devices is outpacing the carriers' ability to feed them. Cisco says mobile traffic has gone up 160 percent within the past year and more than 20 percent of US households have given up their landlines in favor of cell phones. With growing reliance on mobile devices, strong signals become critical.

"You might have five bars over there on your cell phone and only three bars in the next room," CelLynx chief marketing officer Barry George said. Anyone who has walked around the house or out to the furthest corner of the yard trying to find just the right spot for reception knows how annoying this problem can be.

"We guarantee five bars of signal strength anywhere you have a signal, even if that signal is too weak to make a call," George told TechNewsDaily. "And you get your maximum data throughput."

The company's 5BARz technology extends even the weakest signals to full signal strength, and make Internet speeds as much as 20 times faster, George says, including 3G in areas with weak coverage. The result: fewer dropped calls, better reception, and faster mobile Internet.

The 5BARz Road Warrior is designed for portability. It can be used from any location where power is available, requires no rooftop or window antennas, and can provide a full signal to up to five devices. Once the connection has been made, users may wander away from the device. Any 12-volt outlet will work, including those in cars and boats.

"Signals bounce a long way on the water, but boaters can't hold it," George said. "5BARz gives five bars even out on the water, [which is] especially good in case of emergency or if you just need to know when dinner is." George also uses his 5BARz at airline gates, spots notorious for no coverage.

The Road Warrior provides full signal strength to multiple devices. It is "carrier agnostic" meaning it will work with any wireless carrier signal and with any device using a cellular signal. Priced at $299 with no additional service charge.

Cellynx will release fixed-based products which will provide a signal throughout an entire home later this year. 

LiveScience.com Leslie Meredith
technewsdaily Senior Writer
Thu Apr 15, 10:06 am ET

Spring break is just around the corner! Join us this week as we look at all sorts of fun and useful gadgets that will make it easier than ever to hit the road for a much deserved respite from wintry doldrums, from cell phone accessories to auto maintenance tools and even biking gear. We would love to hear about your spring break plans, drop us a line and let us know where you’re headed, and we hope that you enjoy your trip!

To start off we’re going to look at a gizmo that will not only make traveling easier, but could potentially make your time at home less frustrating as well, particularly if you happen to reside in a weak or dead spot for cellular reception. We’re talking about the CelLynx 5barz Road Warrior, a cellular signal booster to use in your car. We’ve looked at other signal boosters before, but never one designed specifically to fit in your car. 5barz makes some pretty lofty claims, guaranteeing increased signal strength in any area where a cellular signal exists, and we were anxious to see if they could deliver.

The Road Warrior is roughly the size of a paperback book, and has three parts to it; the base, the cradle and the power cord/antenna, which plugs into a 12V cigarette lighter. Right away we were fans of the fact that there was no external antenna required, and that it works with every carrier in the US (except iDEN phones used by Nextel, and TMobile’s 3G services). We were able to test it out with both our iPhone 3G and with a Blackberry Storm 9530, on Verizon and ATT, both EDGE and 3G.

Oddly enough some of the worst dead spots we encounter are not in the country, but in the densest parts of San Francisco while driving around. Apparently tall buildings and huge hills are not conducive to great cellular signals! So, risking life and limb, we bravely hit the streets of San Francisco for you, dear readers. Note: we did not use the phone while driving, but safely pulled over when a dead zone was discovered. We found that even on the streets where we have consistently dropped to 1 or 2 bars, we retained signal and didn’t drop as many calls- down to around 5% or so from 20%, with only the occasional cut-out. In addition we found that webpage loading time on the iPhones were faster when using the Road Warrior, a definite plus. There was no discernible difference between the performance of the Road Warrior with the iPhone and the Blackberry Storm. The major downside is that the phone must stay in the cradle for it to work, so a Bluetooth headset is highly recommended.

Now, just to be clear, there must be a signal- the Road Warrior won’t create a signal where none is present. So, for those of you planning on heading to remote areas where there may not be cellular coverage, cell phone boosters likely won’t work for you- they can’t make something out of nothing. The other caveat is that regardless of how boosted your signal is, calls that are dropped or won’t go through due to congestion on the cellular network can’t be avoided.

In the interest of thorough investigation, we also gave the Road Warrior a try in a fixed location the office, which is in an old, tall, brick building in the heart of San Francisco. It would be fair to say that every staff member has spent their fair share of time down in the lobby or outside (even in the winter) trying to get a stable signal to make a call on. For as well as it works in the car, there was a whole office full of doubters as to the Road Warrior’s ability to make the office a viable place to make a cell phone call. We were all amazed and delighted that we were able to go from one bar to four bars, and were able to make calls from anywhere in the room that the base was in. (In the past we’ve had some luck with a signal booster, but it required sitting in a fairly specific spot right next to the base.) What a great thing, to be able to move around a room freely and not fear that the call will disconnect with a wrong step!

Currently you can order the Road Warrior from a list of sellers, and you can expect to pay around $300.

http://www.trulyobscure.com/article/597/on-the-road-with-cellynx-5barz

CelLynx has come out with a new product, the Road Warrior. It is a cell phone booster for in-vehicle or in-home use, protocol-independent and covers the frequency bands used in the USA.

The Road Warrior consists of two major components and some accessories. The two main components are the universal device holder with built-in antenna and a transmit/receive module. The two are connected by coaxial cable with an MCX antenna connector. The accessories are a DC power cable for the users device, an iGo tip is required to make the connection, and an AC/DC converter for in building use.

Installation was quick and easy, the universal holder is attached to a gooseneck that has a 12V cigarette lighter adaptor that plugs into the jack on your dashboard. The coaxial cable connects to the T/R module. Place the device into the holder, turn it on, and that is it. When the T/R module initializes, the blue LEDs illuminate. At that point the connection has been established.

There was a noticeable difference in signal strength using the BlackBerry Storm in the cradle. Signal strength usually is three to four bars when in its normal cradle, with the Road Warrior enabled it went to five bars. Drive testing through known weak signal areas proved that the device was working well. In places where a call drops or signal fade causes errors, the Road Warrior was able to hold the signal longer and in some cases save a normally dropped call.

Portability from vehicle-to-vehicle is simple, unplug the 12V connection and move. Mentioned earlier, the kit also comes with an AC/DC converter so that the unit can be used inside a home or office. During tests, the signal coverage was improved in known weak spots inside a building. The phone must stay in the cradle for it to work, so a Bluetooth headset is highly recommended.

Using the device did produce some interesting "side effects". Battery life was greatly improved, and more than one device benefited from the cradle's position. Two phones in the vehicle both had improved performance. The one in the cradle had better performance; the second device was within a foot of the cradle.

This device will only work where there is a cell signal present; it won’t create one where one does not exist!

The kit is retailing for US$299, with an optional magnetic mount exterior antenna available for an additional US$39.

http://phonereport.info/review-5barz-road-warrior/