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Avila Business Centers develops a Pioneer

application for Android

Lisbon, 30th March 2011 – Avila Business Center (a company that manages

Office Centers and Virtual Offices solutions) has just made available the version of 

its myOffice app for smartphones with Android operating system.

The myOffice app is the first worldwide application for physical and virtual offices

developed exclusively for mobile platforms and it’s available since today in the

Android Market. The application was developed in partnership with WATERDOGmobile, a national company with offices in Oporto and in Lisbon, and it will be free

of charge for all Avila Business Centers’ clients, being also available a demo

version in the Android Market.

myOffice application allows professionals to have real time information of 

telephone contacts, correspondence arrival and fax notifications as well as access

to one hundred European Business Centers belonging to the eOffice network,

represented in Portugal by Avila Business Centers.

Through this functionality, users may visualize on Google Maps the BusinessCenters location, and make online reservations of meeting rooms, offices and

virtual offices, besides being able to demand for information on other services.

In the informative area of the app were introduced contents about the Avila

Business Centers as well as the myOffice International Network, whose launch is

previewed for May 2011.

Besides the myOffice for Android, the Avila Business Centers is also developing a

mobile site, to allow the access from other smartphones, namely the Blackberry

terminals.

«This project was developed after a study made to 250 Avila Business Center’s

clients companies, among which 82% have a favourable opinion in relation to

these applications, showing the utility these technologies represent nowadays to

companies and the opening of them for the innovation of their work processes.»,

highlights Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers’ CEO.

Avila Business Center wants with this new product, to try to give a more effective

answer to the companies’ needs that are in constant mobility, being an effective

solution for professionals working in a telework regime, for freelancers and fororganizations geographically spread and that have adopted a virtual Office in

Lisbon city centre.

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«The partnership with Avila Business Centers was and will continue to be a higher

gain for WATERDOG mobile, considering it comes up in the moment we are still a

start-up focused in the design and development of mobile applications. The

myOffice, which is now also available for Android, is of Great utility for Avila

Business Centers’ offices clients, since it allows a unique interaction at a distance

», explains Pedro Coutinho, founder and partner of the WATERDOG mobile.

«We are in a moment where cloud Web based solutions are assuming more and

more importance and we are going to continue to bet in that sense. The myOffice

is an example of an application which fits in this reality », concludes the same

responsible.

About Avila Business Centers

Funded in 2004 with the name Espaço Avila Business Centers, the company

changed its designation to Avila Business Centers in 2011. Besides renting “ready

made” physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices’ business where

presents solutions with prices between 55 and 85 Euros per month, with several

services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized

telephone answering and Access to the potentialities of remote management of 

myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad. Currently it counts with

more than 200 national and international clients partner and representative in

Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International

Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom.

Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in

Avenida João Crisóstomo. For more information visit

http://www.avilabusinesscenter.com.

About WATERDOG mobile

The WATERDOG mobile is a Portuguese startup focused in the design and

development of solutions for mobile devices, namely for iOS (iPhone and iPad),

Android and Windows Phone 7. The company was founded in 2011 and although ithas initiated recently its activity, it counts already with the development of a

gathering of innovating applications for clients in several activity sectors. To have

more information contact the WATERDOG mobile team in

http://waterdogmobile.com.

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