About Us
Press Releases
CustomWeather and Cellmania Offer Premium Global Weather to Consumers
More than 58,000 City Forecasts Now Available to Cingular Wireless Subscribers
San Francisco, CA – August 6, 2002 - CustomWeather, the leading supplier of syndicated weather data, announced today that for the first time, it has made its global weather forecasts and reports available to consumers via the Cellmania mFinder and mBilling platform. Cellmania's premium applications are available to Cingular Wireless subscribers at http://cingular.cellmania.com/web/premium_apps.jsp.
Until now, CustomWeather's premium global weather content has only been available via its syndicated customers, and a select collection of its products is available to consumers on the web at www.MyForecast.com.
"We are happy to make our global weather forecasts available via Cellmania for a variety of reasons," explains Geoff Flint, CEO of CustomWeather. "We've had many inquiries from individuals seeking to access our weather in a wireless environment, and Cellmania is now able to offer more than just basic forecasts to Cingular Wireless subscribers. They are offering premium content that includes our marine forecasts, buoy reports, ski reports, historical climate data, and much more. It's about time a wireless user can access more than just a basic forecast."
About CustomWeather, Inc.
CustomWeather, headquartered in San Francisco, is the leading supplier of custom weather content, services and applications that are designed to be fully integrated and private-labeled by wireless and online information providers such as Galileo Travel, Go2, and VoltDelta. CustomWeather's geo-coded data feeds are offered in formats such as XML, ASCII and WML. CustomWeather generates weather reports and alerts for over 58,000 unique forecasts worldwide, establishing it as the leader for global location-based coverage. CustomWeather's products can be viewed on its weather web site, www.MyForecast.com .
For corporate information, visit www.customweather.com, or call 415-777-3303.
About Cellmania, Inc.
Cellmania is the leading provider of technologies needed to provision, download and bill for wireless applications. Using Cellmania mFinder™ search and over-the-air download technology, wireless
operators can provide their customers access to more than 40,000 mobile applications of various types including WAP, J2ME, SMS and PocketPC. Cellmania mBilling™ micro-billing intermediation technology allows mobile operators to bill on behalf of developers. By using Cellmania mBilling mobile operators can bill on behalf of more than 20,000 wireless developers that Cellmania has relationships with.
All Cellmania solutions are based on open standards for rapid integration, deployment and scalability. Cellmania's mobile customers include: AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Motorola, Mobile One, Orange Hutchison, AirTel, Openwave and VeriSign. For more information please visit www.cellmania.com or call: 650-210-3826.