KeyToss, a fast-growing mobile web portal, announced its first steps into the travel services market with a new set of tools targeting business and leisure travelers. These tools, which include Flight Status, Translations, Currency Rates, and Snow Conditions, offer a level of customization not offered by other mobile services:

• Flight Status Tool: powered by FlightStats, allows mobile phone users across the world to check the status of airline flights. In addition to allowing users to customize the airline list, the Flight Status tool tunes itself by listing “favorite” airlines and optionally, saving previous flight searches. The tool also makes it easy to monitor the status of a flight over time. FlightStats, with the most complete coverage of commercial airline flights, tracks about 100,000 flights per day.
• Translation Tool: powered by mobitra.mobi, gives users the ability to get translations when they need it most – while on the go. Fifteen languages are available (English, Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, and Catalan), and users can customize the tool to include just the languages they need. Since many browsers on mobile phones cannot natively display special characters used in languages such as Chinese and Russian, or even French and Spanish, the Translation tool offers the innovative option to display translations as images instead of as text. The tool also allows users to select a default “home language” and to save translations for future reference.
• Snow Conditions Tool: based on data from OnTheSnow.com, provides up-to-date information on snow conditions at over 1,200 ski resorts in 33 countries. Users can customize the tool to display the latest info for their favorite mountains.
• Currency Rates Tool: provides users with market exchange rates of several dozen different currencies, updated many times a day. Users can customize the tool to display the exchange rates for any combination of currencies.

From the press release:

"We've built a platform that emphasizes personalization and gives us an opportunity to create new services that mobile users need," said co-founder Rajesh Raichoudhury. "We're very excited about these services because they're just the start. We have some very cool features in development."

KeyToss mobile portal is the most powerful and most personalizable we portal designed for mobile phones. It's the best starting point for the mobile web. It's the ideal website for you because you can customize it to your own needs. It's Free too.

KeyToss works great on Windows Mobile, Palm OS, BlackBerry, and Symbian.

You can get the KeyToss mobile portal, which is currently in Beta, here.

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