WorldMate suffered as many smartphones and other services added free travel notifications. But TripCase and TripIt still have fans among many frequent travelers.
The new service from WorldMate is certainly a convenience and an innovation, both with its check-in reminders, and doing a lot of the grunt work for the traveler.
The acquisition of WorldMate is a natural fit for Carlson Wagonlit Travel and corporate travel in general. Integrating WorldMate without turning off WorldMate's non-CWT travel management customers will be dicey.
WorldMate powers Blackberry Travel and has a very large set of Blackberry users. Given RIM's woes, there's nothing like hedging your bets with a new Windows RT app.