Motricity Partners with gate5 on Navigation Storefronts
Written by Motricity
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Marks the First Such Arrangement with a Navigation Content Provider; Motricity Strengthens EMEA Presence
DURHAM, N.C.-- Feb. 13, 2006--Motricity, a leading mobile content and solutions provider, today announced a partnership with gate5 AG, a leading supplier of software and services for location-based information on mobile devices. This partnership will result in the creation of two storefronts--the first transforms the smartphone or pocket PC into a full-scale navigation system, and the second is specific to Personal Navigation Devices. Both will offer nearly 1,000 products and will be available in several languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
"Having a user-friendly, attractive storefront is critical," said Andreas Hoffmann, head of marketing for gate5. "We use city maps and guides from premium partners with thousands of entries for each city to look up hotels, restaurants, hospitals or tourist sites. We want to make sure we combine the best navigation content with the best consumer experience as well."
"Securing this arrangement with gate5 reflects the increasing number of global content providers who choose Motricity to enable the best possible experience for their consumers," said Ralf Ockenfelds, general manager of Motricity's Mobile2Day division, based in Munich, Germany. Motricity also recently announced storefront provision partnerships with Sony Ericsson and Palm.
Demonstrations of the new storefront will be available in Motricity's stand at the 3GSM World Congress--Stand #J66, Hall 2, Upper Level, and at gate5's stand--Hall 2, Level 1, Booth H74.
About Motricity
As one of the world's leading mobile content and solutions providers, Motricity's technology enables consumers to receive the right mobile content at the right time, every time. Motricity is a leader in powering mobile communities, leveraging the strength of mobile community provider M7 Networks, acquired by Motricity in 2005. Motricity's Fuel mobile content delivery platform was recently named 2005 Premium Mobile Content Platform of the Year by Frost & Sullivan. By offering technology and services that unify the mobile content ecosystem, Motricity creates compelling user experiences and delivers profitable mobile content offerings for partners such as BET, Cingular, Alltel, Sony Ericsson, Verizon Wireless, China Unicom, O2, Amazon.com, Palm and a network of consumer Web sites, including eReader.com and PalmGear.com. Motricity is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and has offices in Beijing, London, Munich and San Diego. For more information, please visit www.motricity.com.
About gate5
gate5 AG is a leading supplier of software and services for location-based information on mobile devices. gate5 introduced "smart2go" as a content delivery platform for content with a location aspect. The middleware developed by gate5, for real- time mapping, route planning, content management, and messaging, is available as an on-board version that is installed directly on the device which runs independent of any online access, and as a service that allows real-time access and updates via server-side databases. The connection can be either wired or wireless (WiFi, GPRS, etc.). smart2go independent modules support all major mobile operating systems such as Symbian (Series 80, Series 60, UIQ), Microsoft SmartPhone, PalmOS, PocketPC (Windows mobile). Gate5 benefits from an excellent partner network for branded content both in Europe and the US. For more information, please visit http://www.gate5.de.
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