WACO, TX and SAVANNAH, GA - Sept. 25, 2003 (Send2Press Newswire) -- Direct Wireless Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: DWCM) today announced the completion of the acquisition of The Barnhill Group in Savannah, Georgia. The Barnhill Group was founded by Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., a Physician trained in Laboratory Medicine/Clinical Pathology and a Pioneer in the development of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Computational Techniques used in Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics, Diagnostics and Drug Discovery.

Dr. Barnhill is a co-inventor on the first neural network patents used in medicine, which were recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson. He is also the inventor of the first support vector machine patents used in medicine for genomic discovery. Dr. Barnhill founded and was CEO of the Barnhill Clinical Laboratories, which was acquired by Quest Diagnostics.

"We are looking forward to having Dr. Barnhill serve as the new President and Medical Director of our Company," stated Bill G. Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Direct Wireless. "Dr. Barnhill is the sole inventor or co-inventor on numerous issued pioneer patents in artificial intelligence based machine learning techniques and diagnostic discovery; was instrumental in the development of neural network based diagnostic tests for prostate and ovarian cancer; led the team that identified and patented the genes that cause colon cancer; has numerous peer-reviewed publications in medical and scientific journals and has been a featured speaker at major medical conferences, both Internationally and in the United States. Dr. Barnhill's expertise in both the medical and business applications of biomarker and pathway discovery will be invaluable as we move forward with our new approach to Health Discovery."

"I am extremely pleased to accept the Position of President and Medical Director of the Company and bring with me a group of world renowned scientists and breakthrough technologies to create a new and very exciting opportunity for our shareholders," remarked Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., founder of The Barnhill Group. "Our goal is to become the world's first, full service health discovery company providing "first phase" biomarker and pathway discovery to pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies worldwide, using our state-of-the-art computational tools and expertise to identify novel proteins and pathways critical to diagnosing and treating patients with devastating diseases like cancer, heart disease, obesity and AIDS."

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