GiveMePower updates its CAD software for Windows Mobile

Calgary, AB, Feb. 16, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- GiveMePower (OTCBB:GMPW) today released its new PowerCAD CE 5.5 line of mobile/wireless CAD and digital blueprint management software, and announced that Pennsylvania State University is using the software to improve facilities management.

Highlights of PowerCAD CE 5.5 Viewer (US $99), PowerCAD CE Classic ($249) and PowerCAD CE Pro ($495) mobile software include:

• Support for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition devices, including Dell's new Axim X30/X50, and HP’s new iPAQ hx2000, hx4700 and h6300 series.
• New 1-button emailing from any location for fast and easy communications between the field and office.
• XpressUpdate system that ensures instant access to the latest program enhancements over the Internet.
• Improved reading and writing of AutoCAD-compatible DWG and DXF files from R12 to R2002 formats.
• New DWF web-ready file exporting, with free DWF viewer available with Pro version.
• Improved Bluetooth wireless support in Pro version for improved in-field productivity using optional wireless hardware such as Leica's DISTO Plus portable lasers and hands-free wireless headsets.

In related news, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is using GiveMePower Corp.'s PowerCAD CE mobile CAD and VoiceNOTE hands-free audio note keeping solution on Dell Axim wireless handhelds.

Prior to PowerCAD CE, Penn State's facilities management group members -- who require as-built drawings for all of their facilities -- recorded measurements using a pad of paper and a measuring tape. Next, they would take the sketches to their office to recreate them manually on a desktop PC using AutoCAD.

Searching for a more efficient method, Scott Hord, facilities analyst within the Facilities Resources & Planning department at Penn State, took a proactive approach by gathering a team to commence development of a mobile solution. Then he came across PowerCAD CE.

"[It] is exactly what we have been looking for," says Hord. "We now manage our drawings directly from anywhere on campus. No more returning to the office with a stack of sketches to redraw in AutoCAD. We [can] add or make changes as needed during building walk-throughs, save the file as an AutoCAD drawing on our Dell Axim handheld PCs and drag-and-drop them to our desktop computers back at the office."

Team members also can send and receive drawings through e-mail or by wireless web. And by using PowerCAD CE's hands-free audio note keeping technology, Hord's team saves time by speaking directly into the handheld PC with detailed verbal information instantly embedded into the drawing and referenced to specific objects or locations.

PowerCAD CE is part of GiveMePower's family of CAD Anywhere 2D and 3D design, viewing and mobile/wireless collaboration software.

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