WorldMate Finds Your Flight: It’s Right On Your BlackBerry
Leading travel service now features real-time flight status and other updates
Lod, Israel Sep. 6 th, 2006 – MobiMate® , 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.”
More information about WorldMate 2006 Professional Edition for BlackBerry is available at: http://www.mobimate.com/BlackBerry
About WorldMate
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®, Palm OS®, 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® 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.