OAG Flight Schedules Now Featured in MobiMate's WorldMateTM for Mobile Devices
22 October 2003
OAG, the world’s leading source of independent flight schedule information, and MobiMate, the leading mobile application vendor, have announced a wide-ranging sales and marketing agreement. From today, MobiMate’s WorldMateTM Professional Edition 2003 for mobile devices includes OAG’s global flight schedules content.
OAG and MobiMate will co-operate in the development and marketing of additional products for various handheld computing and cellular phone platforms. Additional schedule-related OAG services will be introduced as part of the WorldMateTM product line and offered to both MobiMate’s and OAG’s subscribers.
“Our best-of-breed product strategy dictated the selection of the best-of-breed partner for flight schedules - OAG. With OAG’s content aggregation capabilities, and MobiMate’s mobile product creation, we will be able to supply this critical service to millions of business travelers world-wide”, stated Nadav Gur, MobiMate’s CEO.
Duncan Alexander, Managing Director of OAG data, commented: ”OAG was a pioneer in enabling access to flight schedules via mobile devices and our relationship with MobiMate means we can provide enhanced facilities on new generation platforms. We have combined our expertise to find new and innovative ways to help travelers access vital flight information in the way most convenient to them.”
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About WorldMate
WorldMateTM is a leading handheld travel application for handheld devices and smart-phones, with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. The professional edition’s key features include world clocks with automatic DST calculation, a world map with day/night display, 5-day worldwide weather forecasts for over 30,000 locations world-wide, supplied by The Weather Channel, a currency converter with daily exchange rate updates, travel itinerary management, country-specific content and more. WorldMate products are available on all leading mobile platforms, including Symbian (where it is the #1 best selling application), Palm OS, Windows Mobile and J2ME (Java for handsets).
About Mobimate Ltd
Mobimate is one of the leading mobile application software vendors worldwide, publishing award winning, best selling titles such as WorldMate and DateMate. MobiMate’s technology is embedded in some of the world’s most ambitious mobile information systems, including Israel’s Bank Leumi’s Handheld Banking system, launched last fall. MobiMate is based in Lod, Israel and is privately held.
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