Company to enhance the context-based service with cell-based location detection
PHOCUSWRIGHT CONFERENCE, LOS ANGELES (November 17, 2008) — WorldMate, Inc., the industry leader in mobile travel services with over 1.5 million active customers worldwide, today releases very favorable results from the hotel booking service it launched within WorldMate Live™ for BlackBerry two months ago:
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American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Assists in Israel-based Company’s Decision
ATLANTA, November 16, 2008 – MobiMate Ltd., a privately-held developer of award-winning mobile travel software based in Lod, Israel, along with its U.S.-based subsidiary WorldMate, Inc., has announced it will undergo a re-organization and establish its new corporate headquarters in Atlanta. The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) worked closely with MobiMate for several years on this location decision, providing support to them as it has to many of the over 45 Israeli companies that have established U.S. or regional operations in the metropolitan area.
“This is great news. I have been a subscriber for over a year now and am a Gold member of the WorldMate service,” said Ken Stewart, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, whose busy schedule promoting the state demands his frequent travel throughout the world.
Newly created BlackBerry Partners Fund invests in mobile travel service
Lod, Israel, (October 29, 2008) — WorldMate, Inc., the industry leader in mobile travel services with over 1.5 million active customers worldwide, today announced it has secured $8 million dollars in a funding round led by the BlackBerry Partners Fund. The BlackBerry Partners Fund joins other notable investors including Motorola Ventures and several world-renowned angel investors who’ve previously invested in WorldMate through its parent company, MobiMate Ltd.
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The new HP devices announced today, iPAQ Voice Messenger and iPAQ Data Messenger come with WorldMate bundled on a CD.
A runaway success with 100,000 new users joining the WorldMate ranks every month
LOS ANGELES, CA (October 20, 2008) — WorldMate, Inc., the company that has paved the way for mobile travel innovation since 2000 and serves frequent flyers and road warriors around the world, today announces that it now services over one million users on Nokia’s S60 platform. With more than 100,000 new Nokia owners signing up for WorldMate each month, more travelers than ever are managing their itineraries through their handsets.
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22nd September 2008, Herzelia, Israel: The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, announced the overall winner of the ‘virtual’ online round of its 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Competition. Winners were named in each of five categories, from which InfoGin was selected as the overall winner and put forward to compete in the Global Finals at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, next February (16-19 February 2009).
“We are thrilled with the number of high-quality entries received for the first ever virtual tournament, as part of our Global Innovation Competition,” said Bill Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer at the GSMA. “This round has proven to be an invaluable platform for innovators - outside of our regional rounds - to pitch new ideas to influential executives from the mobile industry. Our congratulations to InfoGin, the overall winner which now goes forward to the finals at the Mobile World Congress.”
The GSMA engaged with Carmel Ventures, a leading VC fund in Israel, Google, Microsoft R&D Center, Pitango Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital, Orange Israel, Amdocs, Israel Mobile & Communications Association, AICC, and TheMarker, the leading business website and newspaper in Israel, to present a truly virtual round of the tournament. The tournament was held in Israel at the Microsoft R&D Center and communicated virtually with judges, speakers and innovators from all corner of the globe and then broadcast via LiveU streaming technology online.
The tournament resulted in the selection of the most innovative start-up company to compete with other regional finalists (selected at the GSMA’s Americas, APAC and EMEA tournaments) at the mobile industry’s biggest annual event in Barcelona.
Most Innovative Mobile Application in a Vertical Market
* MobiMate, Ltd, Israel**
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Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?
Why do banks charge a fee on ‘insufficient funds’ when they know there is not enough?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Whose idea was it to put an ‘S’ in the word ‘lisp’?
What is the speed of darkness?
Why is it that people say they ’slept like a baby’ when babies wake up every two hours?
Are there specially reserved parking spaces for ‘able bodied’ people at the Special Olympics?
If the temperature is zero outside today and it’s going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
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Google's Android
Symbian has released data for the first half of the year and the second quarter of 2008 that shows it has met the iPhone challenge and is still on top. That’s what happens when you have 159 devices shipping with your operating system and are a mainstay OS for Nokia, which has captured 39.5 percent of the handset market.
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