Satellite Weather Imagery and Flight Status Updates for Over 75 Leading Airlines
Now Available on WorldMate® 2006 Professional Edition for Windows Mobile
Lod, Israel Nov. 28 th, 2005 – MobiMate® , the leading provider of travel services for mobile devices, announced the release of WorldMate 2006 Professional Edition for Windows Mobile. The award-winning business travel service now supports Windows Mobile 5.0, and features a complete overhaul of the Real-Time Flight Status service, now covering over 75 leading airlines and provided as part of the subscription. Another service added is weather imagery, featuring detailed, animated weather satellite and radar imagery.
“MobiMate continues to bring to market mobile device solutions which take advantage of the power and ease of use of the Windows Mobile platform while and delivering compelling consumer experiences” said Mark Spain, Director Mobile and Embedded Devices.
“With Windows Mobile emerging as the platform-of-choice for business professional mobile devices, we are eager to support it with our state-of-the-art mobile travel services,” said MobiMate’s VP of Product Management, Amir Kirshenboim. “We are actively continuing to add services to the platform, maintaining our lead in the travel category.”
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 (provided by The Weather Channel – weather.com), comprehensive flight schedules and flight status updates (provided by OAG WorldWide), travel itinerary and travel expense management, currency rates, converters and more.
As many corporations are turning to Windows Mobile PDAs, 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.
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
MobiMate® and WorldMate® are registered trademarks of MobiMate, Ltd. The Weather Channel™ and weather.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Weather Channel Interactive ® Inc., All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.