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MobiMate Wins Mobile Technology Award at the World Travel Market
WorldMate Is Recognized By The Travel Industry As The Trailblazer Of Mobile Travel Services. Lod, Israel, London, UK November 17, 2005. MobiMate, the leading mobile travel technology provider, took top honors winning the prestigious TravelMole Innovation in Mobile Technology award at the World Travel Market conference in London, coming ahead of notable nominees including LastMinute.com and TisCover. MobiMate was selected by an independent panel of judges drawn from the world of Travel and Tourism. The award was received at a ceremony held on the famous World Travel Market industry event yesterday. MobiMate's WorldMate product line is the leading mobile travel service and one of the best selling mobile applications worldwide. It was selected by the panel of judges for its groundbreaking technological achievement in providing easy to use real-time travel services across a wide variety of mobile phones. ‘MobiMate is thrilled to bring home this award, which marks the travel industry's recognition of our achievements. We believe the wireless space will transform the travel industry just as profoundly as the Internet has done over the last ten years". MobiMate’s CEO, Nadav Gur continues, “WorldMate’s wide acceptance is proof that, indeed, there already is demand for mobile travel services from corporations and consumers. We fully expect that demand to accelerate in the coming months as MobiMate has garnered significant interest from both Fortune 500 companies and the Travel Management Companies servicing them. In a related announcement, MobiMate announced that it will co-operate with leading travel distribution companies to create the next wave of mobile travel services based on its WorldMate Itinerary Platform. The platform, which forms the basis for WorldMate's own products, will form the basis for partners' mobile travel offerings, targeted at business travelers as well as consumers. “MobiMate's win is a fine example of a how a small company is bringing real innovation to travel technology, taking on the big guns and winning,” said TravelMole Managing Director, Graham McKenzie. “TravelMole is delighted that the inaugural Travel Technology Awards has gone so well with so much global support. The Mobile Innovation prize has drawn much attention, as the travel industry is looking to mobile technology for new growth opportunities,” he said. More information about MobiMate’s products and services is available at: www.mobimate.com. About WorldMate® The WorldMate Platform is a client-server platform for creation of mobile travel application services that is already in use by over 100,000 people worldwide. MobiMate's WorldMate® is the world’s leading mobile travel and itinerary management companion service, providing subscribed users with a host of information and travel planning and management services. This service, which is based on the WorldMate Platform, is available in six (6) languages and on nine different mobile (9) platforms including Java, BlackBerry®, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC and for Smartphone, Symbian UIQ, Series 60, Series 80 and 90 Communicators and Desktop PC. WorldMate® is the three time recipient of the Handango Champion Award in the Travel and Business Enterprise categories, and has received countless wireless developer accolades and endorsements from Nokia, Palm, Sony Ericsson and Symbian, as well as awards from IT industry press including PC Magazine, ZDNet, Pocket PC Magazine, Geek.com and others. For more information about WorldMate®, please visit www.mobimate.com About MobiMate® MobiMate Ltd. is the leading provider of travel-related mobile application services. The company, which pioneered this field is also one of the world's leading independent software vendors for mobile devices, being the only company worldwide with a best-selling non-game product on all open mobile application platforms. MobiMate’s leadership in this space has been recognized by leading handset and PDA vendors who bundle MobiMate products with their devices, including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Hewlett Packard and others. MobiMate’s partners also include The Weather Channel Interactive Inc., OAG Worldwide, Conducive Technology Inc. and other notable travel content providers. For more information about MobiMate, please visit http://www.mobimate.com/company.shtml About TravelMole TravelMole is the News and Resource Center for the Travel Industry with over 300,000 registered travel and tourism professionals worldwide (35k in UK, 30k Europe, 210k North America, and 25k in other countries). Whether you are a travel agent, tour operator, conference and meeting planner, group travel organizer, tourist officer, trade supplier, hotelier, travel journalist, destination marketing officer, or other travel and tourism professional you will find a wealth of relevant, useful information on TravelMole.com.
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