Norman, OK. - April 5, 2010- Weather industry leader, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., (WDT) is bringing a powerful new mobile weather platform called iMapMobile to national and local media customers. iMapMobile 2.0 empowers media partners to launch their own, hyper-local, custom branded iPhone weather applications. The new application includes industry leading weather content, an interactive weather radar map from WDT, and locally generated news, videos, blogs and commentary.
"iMapMobile includes the most advanced mobile weather technology, allowing national and local media news and weather operations to display their own premium branded video, alerts, and user-generated content, right on viewers' phones," said JT Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, WDT. "The applications offer an incredible array of weather data, and other content features, which are robust and intensely relevant to local audiences."
Unlike other weather companies that offer applications that are either designed to boost their brand or who offer "one size fits all" undifferentiated mobile applications, WDT is focused on designing iPhone applications that are fully customizable by the media companies themselves, featuring their own most popular online weather or news content, seamlessly integrated with WDT's state-of-the-science weather content and interactive maps.
The top features of the iMapMobile Version 2.0 release include:
WDT is also offering an integrated advertising feature for easy monetization on the free version, as well as customization options, including theme designs for differentiated backgrounds, weather icons, layouts and font colors. Stations place their own logo on the application, with a custom splash page, an optional sponsorship area, custom news sources and, in the premium version, custom video and photo sources.
The iMapMobile iPhone Version 2.0 is available immediately for commercial deployment in May 2010.