Location Based Services Take to the Skies
Date: Thursday, April 03 @ 21:08:03 UTC
Topic:
 WorldMate has launched its Live for Windows Mobile travel service at CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas. This is the first interactive ‘push’ travel service for Windows Mobile smartphones. Your itinerary, which is always synchronized with your mobile device, can be shared with peers.
The WorldMate Live system, consisting of an Outlook add-on, website and mobile client, tracks a user’s travel itinerary from start to finish. All details such as car hire, hotels and flight information are imported to the system. Once on the road, the traveller is proactively ‘pushed’ information including gate changes or flight status - requiring no pre-emptive action from the user.
Services for WorldMate Live include: weather, weathercaster and satellite imagery, flight status and schedules, world clocks, currency converter, measurements clothing converter and day/night map.
Just before a trip, the service starts tracking your journey in real-time. It shows ongoing details and makes suggestions when required. If there is a problem with a flight... Click here to read more and discuss...
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