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The Highway Launches Red Bull Competition Using Podmo

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The Highway’s passion and drive to maintain their leading position in Australia’s hotel market is exemplified once again with their implementation of Podmo, a brand new Adelaide invention which will revolutionise your experience at The Highway.

Podmo PlayZone is a revolutionary mobile entertainment and marketing platform designed for bar and restaurant management allowing them to interact directly with their customers via their Bluetooth or WiFi enabled mobile phones. Customers can quickly & easily enter competitions, earn loyalty points and receive redeemable coupons using just their phone without the need for loyalty cards or complicated Point Of Sale systems. PlayZone is also an entertainment platform providing interactive multiplayer games, Instant Messaging, Facebook, YouTube, content downloads, News feeds and more.

The Highway will pilot Podmo’s system over the coming weeks and structure several promotions around the system including ticket giveaways for music events; Summer Daze, The Big Day Out & Midsummer Circus. As Podmo develops, The Highway will use Bluetooth technology as an interactive ticketing system for New Year’s Eve and even allow guests to play interactive games against each other using The Highway’s massive outdoor screen.

Because Podmo has been designed to take advantage of Bluetooth and WiFi technology, interacting with the network is completely free. The Podmo PlayZone mobile software is available for the majority of mobile devices in the market including the iPhone.

Head to The Highway to see the technology for yourself with the launch of their Red Bull promotion to give away Summer Days tickets, launching on November 23.

Get on board with Podmo – free mobile entertainment

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Podmo platform is part of i-Commute, a trial on Adelaide’s bus service funded by a consortium that includes Adam Internet, UniSA, MIMP, Cisco, WebShield and TransSpot.

Podmo aims to woo more people to use public transport by making travel more entertaining.

With Podmo installed in a bus or train, commuters can use their phone or PDA to browse the web, download and play games, chat using instant messaging, and participate in a whole range of internet applications.

“Having all these applications available for free on a bus will encourage people to use public transport,” says Podmo CEO Che Metcalfe, the Australia-based, Queensland born inventor of the world-first free mobile phone entertainment platform.

“We’re not just helping reduce the commuter’s carbon foot-print, we’re helping reduce traffic accidents caused by people trying to text and drive at the same time!”

In its role as the i-Commute mobile platform partner, Podmo has provided a free-to-access mobile network for Adelaide buses.

Podmo’s patent pending software turns each bus into a mini-community that becomes part of the Podmo community.

“Once connected to the network users can download all forms of content, browse pages, read the news and weather or communicate with each other via text or voice,” Che explains.

Using the solution allows connectivity via either Bluetooth or WiFi to the network, to meet the technical requirements of more than 90% of the mobile phones on the market.