We are very proud to announce that Wizi was one of the five selected companies to participate in Entrepreneurship in Residence and will travel to Pittsburgh next year to prepare its launch in the U.S. Entrepreneurship In Residence is a Pilot Program by Carnegie Mellon University and was designed to help Portuguese companies to enter [...]

We’re happy to announce that Wizi is running for Best Mobile Application on TechCrunch Crunchies Awards with Wizi Location Super App. This is the fifth annual competition co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. You can nominate Wizi Location Super App on the link below!

GSI Accelerators Start-up Challenge 2011 is a business plan competition coordinated by Leadership Business Consulting and supported by Banco Espírito Santo and Luso-American Foundation. The purpose is to identify two Portuguese innovative startups and take them to the incubator Plug and Play Tech Center at Silicon Valley . Today the five startup finalists were announced [...]

New update version of Wizi SMS Location for Android is available at the Android Market. This release is now compatible with Android OS 1.5 and fixes a bug that was preventing the app to get an address while editing a location. Free download is available at the Android Market Thank you users for your feedback!

If you haven’t try Wizi SMS Location yet, here are some demo videos we have just produced… Wizi SMS Location for iPhone Wizi SMS Location for BlackBerry Wizi SMS Location for Android So what do you think about Wizi? Get it from http://get.wizi.com and send us your feedback. –andre

The APMP – Association for the Promotion of Multimedia and Digital Society – awarded the best Portuguese Multimedia projects based on talent, creativity and entrepreneurship. Among more than 150 applicants, Wizi SMS Location was distinguished as finalist in the category ‘Technological Supports and Platforms’ in the 6th edition of the National Multimedia Award. Wizi SMS [...]

The Portuguese carrier Optimus sponsored the connection by ultralight aircraft between Cabo da Roca (the Westernmost point in continental Europe, in Portugal) and North Cape (the European Northernmost point, in Norway). During 18 days, 6 Portuguese pilots will cross more than 12,000 kms, in an unprecedented enterprise. Optimus assured all communications and technological solutions for [...]

We have recently released the latest version of Wizi SMS Location for BlackBerry and Android and we’re very happy with the improvements we’ve made, having in mind some special requests from our users, such as: finding and checking-in at nearby Foursquare and Facebook Places, adding altitude to the location message, customizing ‘Follow Me’ duration or [...]

Connectivity problems on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service operations affected many popular websites and services showing constant errors or simply being down completely. Wizi, Foursquare, Reddit and Quora are among those services inflicted by Amazon Web Services suffering network latency and connectivity error. According to the company, they are working hard to [...]