MobiMate® Donates January 2005 Salary & Sales Proceeds to Help Tsunami Relief Efforts

Lod, Israel, January 31, 2005 - MobiMate, the world's leading provider of business and travel management applications for mobile devices, announced today the donation of corporate revenue from the January 2005 sales of its software titles, as well as additional donated funds from individual MobiMate employees who contributed large portions of their salaries to help victims of the Tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia.

MobiMate's donations stretched across multiple channels and included 100% of revenues from the January 2005 sales of the popular DateMate software application in collaboration with PocketGear.com, as well as a $1.00 donation for every license sold through Handango.com of WorldMate, the number one (1) best selling mobile travel and business software application across the Palm OS, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Java, Symbian UIQ and Blackberry device platforms.

Employees of the mobile software company also joined in the relief effort by donating portions of their salaries to help the Tsunami disaster victims.

"We tried to find as many ways to contribute as possible," said MobiMate's VP of Marketing, Nicole Mayraz "I'm proud that both as a company and as individuals, our entire team was able to contribute and donate thousands of dollars to help the victims of the Tsunami."

The donations for both the corporate and individual contributions from MobiMate were collected and distributed through various charity organizations, including UNICEF and IsraAid.

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 device 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 www.mobimate.com/about

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.

UNICEF:
For more information on contributing and donating to the Tsunami relief effort through UNICEF: http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=iuI1LdP0G&b=276341

ISRAAID:
For more information on how to contribute to the Tsunami relief effort through IsraAid: http://www.topaz-int.org/topaz/tsunami


Press Contact Information:
Nir Galili
MobiMate, LTD.
T: + 972 8 922 3622
E: press@mobimate.com
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