19th April 2010 12:27:28 CEST
Balls to Africa with SportMate™ World Cup 2010 phone app
Balls to Africa with SportMate™ World Cup 2010 Special Edition phone app - Fans to donate footballs to African children
Alive & Kicking is to benefit from the latest version of SportMate™ - the leading mobile live scores application that updates fans instantly with every goal and incident from every major football match happening in the world.
Now in it’s third year, the menu driven app brings together all major leagues and matches, all international tournaments and matches, including Champions League and the World Cup in South Africa, and lets fans follow as many games happening anywhere in the world at once. As soon as an incident occurs the user is updated within 10-15 seconds of it taking place. The app also shows the team sheets and line ups.
The SportMate™ World Cup 2010 Special Edition costs just £4.99 with €2 from every download going directly to Alive & Kicking, a UK charity that has set-up stitching factories in Kenya and Zambia, where leather footballs are made for free distribution to underprivileged children in Africa. Alive & Kicking has created hundreds of jobs in areas of high unemployment and given hundreds of thousands of footballs – branded with HIV/AIDS awareness messages – to children who otherwise would be playing with homemade balls.
Alive & Kicking director, Will Prochaska says, “This is great news for us in our quest to donate 100,000 balls to children in Africa during this World Cup year. I’ve been playing with the SportMate™ app and it’s ideal if you can’t see your team play and want to know what’s happening. What’s clever is even if you’re at the game you can keep an eye on all your rivals’ matches and be first in the stands with the news.”
David Barnes, Mdtec’s Managing Director said “When I first saw a television report about Alive and Kicking I knew instantly that this would be our chosen charity to benefit from the download fee. The work they do is fantastic and I hope that football fans around the world will download SportMate™ and help us provide as many footballs as possible. With the FREE entry into our great 25,000€ competition also included it’s a great offer.”
SportMate™ World Cup 2010 Special Edition is available from www.sportmate.mobi as well as most of the leading download sites as a 14 days trial version.
About Media Delivery Technologies (UK) Ltd
Media Delivery Technologies (UK) Ltd is a pioneering developer of mobile applications as well as development technologies. The company works closely with all leading handset manufacturers including Nokia, Blackberry (RIM), LG and Sony Ericsson as well as with Sun Microsystems, the developer of the Java ME environment available in most mobile devices. Mdtec has offices in the UK, Spain and Finland.
More information about Mdtec and the services offered is available at www.mobiledevelopment.net
For more information about this press release, please e-mail at info@mdtec.net
About alive and Kicking
Alive & Kicking is a social enterprise that manufactures hand stitched sports balls in sub-Saharan Africa in order to provide balls for children, jobs for previously unemployed adults, and health awareness for young people through sport. Established in 2004 Alive & Kicking operates factories in Kenya and Zambia employing over 150 people. More than 280,000 balls have been distributed to children across Africa, and 40,000 children have been targeted by Alive & Kicking’s HIV/AIDS campaign.
www.aliveandkicking.org.uk
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