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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Mobile Commerce Launches Train Times app
Utilising National Rail Enquires’ definitive information on all passenger rail services on the National Rail network in England, Wales and Scotland, Train Times provides live departure and arrival boards for all National Rail stations, and a full live journey planner for rail routes across the UK.
Train Times is the first app of its kind to provide full integration with Blackberry calendar and email. Once planned, a journey can be saved into the calendar, reminders set and an email detailing the journey can be sent to colleagues, friends or relatives.
The app also features a ‘My Commute’ function, which acts as a personalised live departure board. The user simply sets up a ‘home’ and ‘work’ station so they can quickly and easily check the live status of trains to or from work.
As well as offering the type of travel information you’d find on a website, the app uses handset location to display the nearest stations, and includes a real-time progress indicator to show train progress for your selected station.
All of this is tailored for use with all touch-screen and non-touch BlackBerry handsets running OS 5.0 or later.
Steve Page, Mobile Commerce CEO, said: “We’re delighted to bring the Train Times app to BlackBerry App World. We’ve already had success bringing National Rail Enquires to other mobile platforms, now BlackBerry users can benefit from the unique level of service it provides.
“Mobile Commerce is continuously looking to improve the mobile user’s experience, making information quicker and easier to access and, most importantly for mobile, concise.
“We enjoy meeting the challenge of tailoring an app for each of the numerous platforms, app stores and handsets. In bringing the Train Times app to BlackBerry App World we’ve met those challenges, and even more rail travellers can now plan their journeys quickly and efficiently on the move.”
The Train Times app is priced at £4.99 and is available here from BlackBerry App World.
About Mobile Commerce
Founded in 1999, Mobile Commerce (www.mobilecommerce.co.uk ) is the UK’s most successful provider of search and location solutions for the mobile telecommunications industry.
Mobile Commerce has been operating managed services to Tier One Mobile Operators since February 2002 and is the UK’s leading provider of Local Search services on mobile - current customers include Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile, Orange, Microsoft and Sony Ericsson.
A growing element of Mobile Commerce’s core business model is the development of monetised search using paid listings. Mobile Commerce now offers a Monetised Mobile Search solution connecting mobile users with advertisers. This generates additional revenue for the network operators through off-portal traffic and gives advertisers distribution.
Mobile Commerce has published White Paper on Mobile Search - to download a summary version go to http://tinyurl.com/26h8ajm
Mobile Commerce is now providing content and creative services to the UK mobile network operators and other major brands, over SMS, Mobile Internet, Java & iPhone, and is at the forefront of developing innovative packages that will be instrumental in driving additional revenue streams for network and brand partners.
In October 2008 Mobile Commerce was named in Deloitte’s top 50 fastest growing UK tech companies - one of the UK’s foremost technology award programmes, ranking the country’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies based on percentage growth over five years.
In September 2009 Mobile Commerce was named in the Tech Media Invest Top 100, which showcases the UK’s most innovative media and technology companies.
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