New WorldMate® Release Boasts Enhancements for Cross-Platform Travel and Itinerary Management Services
Lod, Israel, November 30, 2004 - MobiMate announces the release of the all new and improved WorldMate Professional Edition 2005 for Palm, Pocket PC and Desktop platforms, which offers travelers and corporate travel planners enhanced itinerary and trip management capabilities, cross-platform synchronization and pre-planning and en-route travel itinerary updating features.
WorldMate users with Palm and Pocket PC devices are now able to collaborate with the all new Desktop version and receive over-the-air (OTA) updates whenever a change is made to an itinerary. WorldMate's Desktop Companion also enables users to send these saved itineraries from WorldMate to anyone on the Web via email as WMI file attachments.
"Our goal is to provide business travelers and business travel organizers with the means to manage their travel needs from any platform they want," explains MobiMate's CEO, Nadav Gur. "Giving users functional cross-platform capabilities allows them the freedom to choose how, when and where to create, manage and use WorldMate's trip and travel planning services."
In addition to all the cross-platform collaboration features, WorldMate's Desktop Companion also offers travel planners benefits such as consolidated and precise coordination of multiple trips for numerous passengers, including profiling and trip preference management features such as aircraft seat assignments, meal types, hotel arrangements, frequent flier accounts, car rental service information and more.
The award winning WorldMate® continues to receive endorsements from industry giants such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, ZDNet, Handango, Pocket PC Magazine and PCWorld's James Martin, who claims the "bottom line [is]: don't leave the country without WorldMate. Period."
About WorldMate®
WorldMate® is the world's leading mobile travel and itinerary management companion service, providing subscribed users with the ability to create, plan, manage and send travel-related trip itineraries in six (6) languages and on eight (8) platforms including Java, Blackberry, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Symbian UIQ, Series60, Series80 Communicators and Desktop PC.
WorldMate® is the three time recipient of the Handango People's Choice Awards in the Travel and Business Enterprise categories, and has received countless wireless developer accolades and endorsements from Nokia, PalmOne, Sony Ericsson and Symbian, as well as awards from industry specific eZines such as PC Magazine, ZDNet, PocketPC Magazine, Geek.com and others.
For more information about WorldMate®, please visit
www.mobimate.com/worldmate
About MobiMate®
MobiMate® is a mobile application developer with numerous award winning travel and itinerary management product lines and hundreds of thousands of subscribed users worldwide. MobiMate's strategic partners include Nokia, Orange, The Weather Channel Interactive® Inc., Symbian, Handango, OAG, Sony Ericsson, Hewlett Packard and others, providing global distribution and international sales of the flagship WorldMate® product, which is available in Professional, Standard and Desktop Editions on multiple wireless platforms including Java, Blackberry, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Symbian UIQ, Series60, Series80 Communicators and Desktop PC.
For more information about MobiMate, please visit
http://www.mobimate.com/company/index.shtml
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