Today, WorldMate, the leading provider of mobile travel services for business people on the go, announced several upgrades to WorldMate Live. Enhanced to offer more flexibility to its Mac customers, the WorldMate Live Web site is now optimized for the Apple Safari browser, allowing users full access to travel planning and itinerary sharing. Other new features include greater compatibility with several Web-based email platforms enabling road warriors to manage their itineraries by forwarding booking confirmations directly from their email service of choice.

WorldMate, Inc., the leading provider of mobile travel services for business people on-the-go, announced today several upgrades to WorldMate Live. The www.worldmatelive.com site has been optimized for the Apple(r) SafariTM browser so that Mac(r) users have full access to online travel planning and itinerary sharing. In addition, WorldMate Live can now read travel confirmation emails received in Lotus Notes, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Mail, among others. This makes it possible for road warriors at businesses of any size to manage their complete itineraries by forwarding the booking confirmations directly from their email service of choice.

All PC and Mac WorldMate Live members can forward booking confirmations from over one hundred sources to export@worldmatelive.com, creating a complete itinerary without hand-entering the tedious details. Once the emails are forwarded, the system automatically builds the comprehensive itinerary and then “pushes” it to the member’s BlackBerry device and WorldMate Live Web account Travel agents can also send booking confirmation emails direct to WorldMate Live, making the process completely hands-free for their clients.