WACO, TEXAS - (Send2Press Newswire) - October 27, 2003 -- Direct Wireless Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DWCM), today announced the resignation of Dr. Bill G. Williams as Chairman and CEO of the Company effective October 23, 2003.

Dr. Williams in a letter to the company stated, "As you know, being in charge of a public company is a very complicated and time consuming occupation. People who run public companies must have the time, motivation and management knowledge to take the company to its fullest potential. While I certainly believe that I have most of these attributes, due to the complexity of the genomic technology and the fact that I have other interests that are very time consuming, I realized that I was not going to have the amount of time I believed was required to run a public company of this magnitude."

The Board of Directors immediately appointed Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., current President and Medical Director of the Company, to serve as the company's new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Stephen D. Barnhill, M.D., is 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 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.

Upon accepting his appointment as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Barnhill said, "We appreciate Dr. William's contributions to the Company and wish him every success in his future endeavors."

Dr. Barnhill continued, "In the very near future we will be announcing the addition of a number of new Executive Officers, Directors, and Scientific Advisors to the Company as we continue the transition from a wireless communications company to a full service health discovery company, providing pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies worldwide with the tools necessary for identifying novel proteins and pathways critical to diagnosing and treating patients with devastating diseases like cancer, heart disease, obesity and AIDS."

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