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Wireless - Monday, November 19, 2007

Motorola Invests in Israel's Mobimate

Israel's Mobimate has createed a useful tool called Mobimate that helps Blackberry users with better information than they can get from customer support people at the airport. So when your flight is delayed or canceled, you are notified and get a list of alternative flights. Upon arrival, you get your itinerary, local time and weather, and directions to your next destination. All of this data you could piece together yourself by using something like Expedia, Mapquest, etc. But Mobimate has brought this together for you and pushes it to you so you don't have to surf the web to get when you are in a time crunch.

Mobimate has been funded by a group of big shot angel investors. They include John Sculley, Richard Rosenblatt, Michael Price (Evercore Partners founder) and Michael Targoff (Loral Space's CEO). Today the company announced it had raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Motorola.

If you are interested, you can download for free. It has some functions for free but the core service will cost you he extended functionality and more on-the-ball Internet-to-phone alert services have raised the yearly rate from $75 to $100.

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