WorldMate Finds Your Flight: It's Right on Your BlackBerry
Written by MobiMate
Thursday, 07 September 2006
Leading Travel Service Now Features Real-Time Flight Status and Other Updates
LOD, Israel- Sept. 7, 2006--MobiMate(R), the leading provider of travel services
for mobile devices, announced the release of WorldMate 2006 Professional Edition
for BlackBerry. The new generation of WorldMate for BlackBerry features a whole
new user experience and new services including a real-time flight status service
covering over 80 leading airlines worldwide.
WorldMate 2006 Professional Edition is a suite of content and application services
serving business travelers' needs while on the road. Services range from Flight
Schedules and Flight Status through weather forecasts to world clocks. These are
packaged as a highly usable mobile application available on BlackBerry and many
other smartphone platforms, and sold as a subscription to business travelers and
corporations. Existing WorldMate Professional Edition subscribers will get the
upgrade for free, in line with MobiMate's subscription policy.
"We are seeing demand for our BlackBerry products from Fortune 1000 companies,
whose business travelers often find themselves in need of critical information
while on the road," states Nadav Gur, MobiMate's CEO. "WorldMate 2006 for BlackBerry
is another step forward for us in providing solutions to business travelers' problems."
MobiMate's WorldMate product line is the leading mobile travel service and one
of the best selling mobile applications worldwide. WorldMate is an all-in-one
package for the frequent business traveler, featuring essential services including
world time, global weather forecasts, comprehensive flight schedules (provided
by OAG WorldWide), flight status updates (provided by FlightStats), itinerary
management, currency and unit conversion, expense reporting and more. The WorldMate
product line is available on nine (9) platforms including J2ME, BlackBerry(R),
Palm OS(R), Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC and Smartphone, Symbian UIQ,
Series 60, Series 80 and 90 Communicators and Desktop PC. It is the only mobile
application worldwide to have been a top-10 best seller on more than 5 platforms
to date.
WorldMate(R) is the six time recipient of the Handango Champion award in the
several categories, and has received countless wireless developer accolades and
endorsements from Nokia, Palm, Sony Ericsson and Symbian, as well as awards from
industry specific eZines such as PC Magazine, ZDNet, Pocket PC Magazine, Geek.com
and others.
About MobiMate
MobiMate Ltd. is the clear leader of the mobile travel services. MobiMate's unique
approach to the Mobile Internet sees the product as a combination of clever, attractive
and user-friendly software, valuable content and services from recognized sources,
and an on-line service delivering this content to the end-user's device. MobiMate's
leadership in this space has been recognized by leading handset manufacturers
who bundle MobiMate products with their devices, including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson,
Hewlett Packard and others. MobiMate's content partners include The Weather Channel
Interactive Inc, OAG Interactive and other notable travel-related companies.
MobiMate and WorldMate are registered trademarks of MobiMate, Ltd. The BlackBerry
and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties
and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. All other trade names and trademarks
are the property of their respective holders.
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