TakeaTaxi.ca becomes Pinpoint Fuel Developer Program Member

 

Canada’s First Wireless Taxi Directory Service Offers Location-Sensitive Information at your Fingertips

 

Ottawa, Canada - January 28, 2002 - SK8 Wireless Technologies Inc.’s TakeaTaxi.ca, Canada’s first location-based mobile taxi directory service, today announced its agreement with Pinpoint Networks, Inc, of North Carolina, to take part in their recently announced Fuel Mobile Applications Platform. TakeaTaxi.ca is a bilingual wireless website offering users a listing of taxi services for all cities in Canada and the US (TakeaTaxiUSA.com). The sites are accessible through all internet-enabled cell phones, wireless palm pilots, as well as the conventional World Wide Web. The taxi listings are sorted by city and province/state, and offer a one-touch dialing feature. The TakeaTaxi.ca wireless site is also available directly through the mobile browsers offered on phones from Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, Aliant, and Sasktel in Canada.

 

“We are pleased to have TakeaTaxi.ca join Pinpoint’s Fuel Developer Program,” said Jud Bowman, president and CEO of Pinpoint.  “Pinpoint's Fuel platform provides the vehicle for developers to distribute and monetize their content, services, and applications.”

 

By offering the TakeaTaxi.ca application, Pinpoint will enable service providers to offer location-sensitive information to their consumers. Useful information for organizing a way home after a night out or while on business in an unfamiliar city.

 

"Our services allow businesses to offer customers up-to-date information at their fingertips. More and more customers are expecting and demanding this ‘anywhere’ service and are embracing mobile devices to achieve this flexibility and convenience," says Bill Wilson, Director of Business Development, SK8 Wireless Technologies.

 

About SK8 Wireless Technologies Inc.:

SK8 Wireless Technologies (www.WirelessTechnologies.ca) is an innovative new company specializing in business to consumer wireless internet solutions. SK8 Wireless merges the power of the conventional internet with the fast-growing wireless technology structure giving customers the ability to instantly access information, such as www.TakeaTaxi.ca, anywhere with the use of internet accessible portable devices, such as cell phones, pagers, and PDAs.

 

About Pinpoint:

Pinpoint is a leading provider of mobile infrastructure software and applications to the world's largest wireless carriers and portals.  Fuel, Pinpoint’s Mobile Applications Platform, enables mobile operators to offer subscribers access to thousands of content services and applications, as well as deploy content-based billing for premium mobile applications.  Supported by a Developer Program that supplies an evolving set of applications to Pinpoint’s growing carrier network, Fuel serves as the essential link between wireless carriers, application developers, and mobile subscribers. 

Selected as one of CNET's "Top 10 Wireless Companies to Watch" and named by Unstrung.com to the "Unstrung 25 Most Innovative Companies in Wireless," Pinpoint's customers and strategic partners include Verizon Wireless, Terra Lycos (a subsidiary of Telefónica), Rogers AT&T Wireless, WirelessDeveloper, and Ericsson.  Founded in 1999, Pinpoint is a privately held company based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.  For more information, visit www.pinpoint.com or call 1-800-PINPOINT.

 

Contact Information:

Lynn Vitello, Sr. Marketing Manager, Pinpoint vitello@pinpoint.com (919) 677-7104

Bill Wilson, Director Business Development, SK8 Wireless Technologies Inc. SK8-Wireless@Rogers.com  (613)853-6246