BlackBerry Bold now Telstra Blue Tick Certified

Telstra announced wednesday one of Australia's most popular smartphones, the BlackBerry® Bold™, would be accredited with Telstra's Blue Tick which recommends devices for handheld use in metro, rural and regional areas.

It appears the RIM's BlackBerry Bold smartphone is well liked over in Australia, as Australia’s Telstra award the BlackBerry Bold the coveted Blue Tick certification.

"The BlackBerry Bold is one of Australia's favourite smartphones. Now business people in regional areas can combine the benefits of wider coverage on the Next G™ network with the added functionality of a smartphone. Customers will be able to stay connected to their work and personal lives with real-time access to email, calendar, contacts and the web in more places across Australia," Mr Riley said.

Telstra’s Blue Tick recommends mobile phone for use in Metro, rural and regional areas. Telstra worked with Research In Motion to develop the software that will boost the BlackBerry Bold’s performance and coverage.

Apparently the Blue Tick award was given for the BlackBerry Bold’s awesome reception. Country wide group manager for Telstra, Brett Riley has said that existing BlackBerry Bold handset can upgrade software as of today and new customers can buy Blue Tick enabled devices as of August.

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Threat to Apple's iPhone Security

I would not be wrong If I say that iPhone is the market leader in mobile phone industry, you must know about PC hacking and mobile hacking, though most of the people dont know much about the mobile hacking. Well today I would tell you about the story of Charlie Miller (the man who hacked the MacBook Air in two minutes) and now he and his partner-in-crime, Collin Mulliner, plan to unveil an exploit at this Thursday's Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Apparently, it would let a hacker take complete control of the iPhone with nothing more than a simple text message.

They are taking advantage of a flaw in how the handset handles text messages, Miller and Mulliner are able to dial the phone, visit Web sites, turn on the phone's camera and microphone, and, most importantly, send text messages that can hijack other phones. Miller told Forbes, about the precautions of mobile hacking that "The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone."

This is not only the iPhone flaw the pair plan to disclose at the conference. Another hole in the SMS system (which also effects Android handsets) can knock the phone off a cellular network for about 10 seconds.

Miller and Mulliner told the respective companies about the exploits over a month ago, and while Google was quick to patch the hole, Apple has yet to fortify the vulnerability. "I've given them more time to patch this than I've ever given a company to patch a bug," Miller explained to Forbes.

The comments (Warning: PDF) were filed in response to a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to legalize the jailbreaking of iPhones to allow consumers to run non-Apple-approved software -- which is now a necessity for all those Google Voice fans with iPhones.

While the rest of the world has been freaking out and forcing Microsoft to launch a "browser ballot" when installing Windows (instead of loading Internet Explorer by default), Apple has been quietly embracing its more draconian impulses and making more and more enemies along the way.

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BlackBerry 9700 Review and Specifications

RIM announced Blackberry 9700 I don’t have a sexy codename for this BlackBerry to attach to the model number, our very same ninja is back again with a list of specifications for this unseen and unnamed device that will launch as the BlackBerry 9700. I am presenting you some specs of Blackberry 9700:

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• UMTS/HSDPA
• 480×360 resolution display
• Wi-Fi a,b,g
• OS 5.0
• QWERTY keyboard
• 3.2 megapixel AF camera
• Bluetooth

Boy Genius Report said that "We know, we know, specs on paper are one thing — we’re working on getting more information, don’t worry."

Some blogs loke blackberrycool.com also put up a story saying the BlackBerry 9700 is the BlackBerry Onyx. but actually the specs for the Onyx, known as the 9020.

BlackBerry Cool is guessing that CrackBerry is using an outdated device number and the 9700 is just the BlackBerry Onyx, formerly known as the 9020. Here are our arguments:

• RIM has a history of changing device numbers before release. This is nothing new.
• The specs of the 9700 are the same as the “9020″
• Also, we’ve been getting a lot of emails from tipsters saying so. Here is a quote from one source: “I have seen, touched, and used the Onyx and in the About screen it says 9700. It looks like the 9020 screenshots that are going around and it has a Bold-like back.”
  

Let’s wait for the release and see if BlackBerry Cool is right. It’s possible that the 9700 could be a device with the same specs as the 9020 with a slider or a touchscreen, but the truth is always much simpler.

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How to do marketing with Twitter and Facebook?

Well since you buttered me up with the "can't wait for the wisdom in your replies" remark,

I guess I'll share what works well for me here so you can adapt it to what you're doing and be successful
when you implement it also.

Here goes:

1.You can get a 'feed' to integrate your twitter account with your facebook account.

This means when you send a "tweet" it will also appear as an "update" on your facebook profile page simultaneously.

If you want to really kick it all into high gear,

do these 2 steps which will make getting automated traffic from those social networks
and even the search engines part of your daily routine by just doing what you do anyway.

If you have an account as an expert author with ezine articles,

2.Add your twitter username and password to your author's profile so each new article you publish there
will automatically be tweeted to your twitter page.

Since you've already integrated it with facebook, it will also
appear with your clickable link on facebook too.

Now here's the second step.

From within your aweber autoresonder account,

3.Tick the "tweet this" checkbox each time
you send out a broadcast to your list.

What this does is tweet your email message out
as a link to your aweber account.

Guess what?

It's also going to facebook too!

This is a great way to get more traffic from twitter, facebook, ezine articles and the search engines
simultaneously with very little effort on your part.

Each of these steps takes no more than a couple of minutes to just fill out a field
and you're in business.

To your success!

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New! Opera Mobile 9.7 beta

Opera Mobile has been dowloaded, since 2004, over 125 million times. Opera Mobile has pioneered and set the standard in mobile browsing, and by the number of downloads, tells you how good the phone is. Pan and Zoom is one of the many outstanding features that Opera has, click on the content and Opera will zoom in for you. Some of its other features include Dragonfly (a developers tool kit), Opera Turbo, which can compress network traffic by 80% and Opera Widgets which are small Web applications that run locally on you phone, giving you one-click access to your favourite web services. Skyfire is marginally better.

• Last updated: 8. 6. 2009
• Learn more about the exciting new features of Opera Mobile 9.7
• Go to the Reviewer’s Guide and screenshots
• Read Opera Mobile 9.7 — features and standards support on Dev Opera

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Zeemote now available for BlackBerry

Zeemote now available for BlackBerry, For more details visit: Technorotic

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Nokia to acquire certain assets of cellity

I am going to disclose one thing that one of the largest Mobile communications giant Nokia and mobile software company Cellity announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire certain assets of cellity. You can check complete details here

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BlackBerry Tour 9630 Phone, Black

The BlackBerry Tour includes a large, highly tactile, full-QWERTY keyboard and a large 2.4-inch display with one of the highest resolutions available yet on a BlackBerry device. Other features include a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder with geo-tagging capabilities, Bluetooth connectivity for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (a 2 GB card is included), easy access to favorite social networking and instant messaging services, support for BlackBerry App World, and up to 5 hours of talk time.

Details

• BlackBerry smartphone with QWERTY keyboard; dual-network capable for 3G-enabled GSM access when traveling abroad
• Access V Cast, Music and Video services via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions; use phone as a modem for your laptop
• 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD memory expansion to 16 GB; access to personal and corporate email
• Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 336 hours (14 days) of standby time
• What’s in the Box: handset, battery, travel charger (with international adaptors), 2 GB MicroSD card, wired stereo headset, swivel holster, USB cable, pre-installed SIM card, documentation

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UAE govt finds more ways to abuse privacy, BlackBerry phone becomes a spy

The largest wireless operator in the Middle East and Africa Etisalat advised its customers in UAE to update their BlackBerry phones with the new application which in fact turned out spy software, as it was later reported by the device maker Research in Motion Ltd. UAE users of the device were notified in the message sent by the telecom operator that they need to follow a link to update their phones.

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BlackBerry shut out of bidding for failing to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Dying telecom firm Nortel, which auctions its wireless business this week, has said Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) was shut out of the bidding process for failing to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Toronto-headquartered Nortel, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection since January after posting losses of $5 billion last year, is auctioning its various divisions to liquidate itself.

Its prized next-generation wireless business will be auctioned Friday in New York under court supervision, with Nokia-Siemens Networks and America’s MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners as the two bidders.

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Why There's a Need to Convert PDF to Doc

The PDF file, or the Portable Document Format file, has been popularized by Adobe Systems for faster document exchange. In particular, this file format is used when it comes to large files, especially when the file contains a lot of graphics or images. However, as convenient as this format strives to be, it still presents quite a downside, especially when you are opening this file format. This is because using the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is the software that specializes in accessing PDF files, can take a toll on your system's operations. Specifically, opening the Adobe Acrobat Reader can cause your computer to experience freezes or hang-ups. Thus, there comes a time to know just how to convert PDF to Doc files.

System hang-ups are not the only reasons as to why it is important to know Html to pdf how to convert these PDF files into Doc files. There are still so many other reasons. For instance, it is actually very difficult to cut or copy a portion of any PDF file and then paste it to another file format. Moreover, this problem presents another problem, which is the difficulty that comes with editing PDF files. Just how can you edit a portion of a file format that you cannot even piece together through simply copying and pasting?

Just think of the PDF file as a typical picture. You cannot really just choose whichever part of the picture and edit it according to your preference, right? The same scenario happens when you deal with PDF files. Thus, it would make more sense to convert PDF files to Doc files, so that you can do whatever sort of editing you want to do.

Fortunately, there are so many software applications that can efficiently convert these PDF files into Doc files. The problem here would then lie in choosing which of the many applications you should get. But before you go on and choose amongst these many applications, it is a must to know a little bit more about the file format that you are about to convert.

There are actually eight object types that can comprise a PDF file. Numbers, arrays, strings, streams of large data, names, items grouped according to names, Boolean values, and the null object are the object types that a PDF file can contain. What the converter software does is it actually analyzes the language that any of these eight different types represent. This is the first step towards successful file conversion.

Of course, there are also other ways of converting a PDF file into an ordinary text file without having to use the converter application. One way of doing this is to copy the contents of the PDF file in question and paste them into ordinary text file format. However, since the PDF file pretty much operates like your regular photograph, you cannot really lift just a portion. You will have to copy all of the contents. This is the major downside here because the process can be very tedious when you are dealing with a lot of PDF files. Thus, the usage of converter software still rules over this simple method.


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Big Brands not able to get their facebook custom URL

Recently Facebook launch their custom URL feature in order to make user profiles easily search able through search engines, but the name was available on first come first out bases, if you are late then you may not get your custom desired name, same is the case I was reading today on mashable.com by adam saying about bajafresh, he said that:

Earlier this evening, I caught wind of a promotion Baja Fresh was running via their Facebook Page: a free burrito with the purchase of a soft drink. Since there’s a restaurant close to my house, I decided to jump to what I assumed would be Baja Fresh’s Facebook Page and print out the coupon. Continue Reading...

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BlackBerry for Mac

BlackBerry Desktop Software is going to be released for Macs in September.

A post on the official Blackberry blog said the new software will be compatible with Mac OS 10.5.5. The blog post also showed a series of screen shots.

The Desktop Software allows users to sync iTunes, add or remove applications, update device software and back up data. It can also manage multiple devices.

Users can sign up at BlackBerry’s website to receive a notification when the software is available.

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Nokia to unveil C-Series and X-Series devices?

What’s in a name? Well, in most cases, not a lot. But when the usually conservative Nokia introduces two new sets of names, namely the C-Series and X-Series, it’s just that little bit more exciting.

Trademark applications for both of those names have been made by Nokia in Finland and Switzerland respectively, not that the countries of origin matter, but those names almost certainly do. You see, Nokia doesn’t throw out new product ranges lightly, with just about all of its handsets either coming in as a number, the letter ‘N’ for its flagship range or the letter ‘E’ for its business-focused phones. New letters almost certainly mean new ranges, which means only one thing to us right now – the Nokia/Intel partnership.

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Video: The BlackBerry Tour gets torn apart, reassembled

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MARKETERS: Why I Ignore Every E-mail You Send and Every Page You Write

The Beginning

This isn't a love letter. It won't start with "Fellow Marketer..." or "Dear Friend..." or any of the ten regurgitated, barely changed, slightly insulting phrases I see on a daily basis. This isn't a money-motivated, buy-from-me, "only ten ebooks left at this price" piece of copy. I'm not selling anything and I don't care what you think about me at the end.Listen MP3 Songs

My motivation is a little different. Quite frankly, the internet is polluted with your hype. It's crap. Sure, it converts, but it gets annoying. You and I both know that javascript timer only fools the people who probably won't succeed with your "Guru Program" anyway. And that brightly colored text you CSS'd into every H1? It's even more frustrating.

Every time I see anything even resembling a traditional landing page, I immediately click the back button. Don't even get me started on your marketing e-mails - I don't open those if I see your name on them.

The Middle

The problem, friend (see how insulting it is?), is the fact that you provide NO value, NO substance, and then expect me to believe you're really a guru. Have you ever noticed that in bigger cities it's nearly impossible to give away free money?

I had a 'job' at one point giving away free public transit passes in a major US city with no catch. People were so used to getting screwed, they didn't want to touch me with a ten-foot pole. There's just so little trust left in the world.

If I sign up for that free eBook you offer, and then get nothing but spam from you, I'm going to park your sender address in my spam box - permanently - and never check it again.

And please, please stop using the same subject lines that every other marketer uses. "I'm sorry, ^name" worked three years ago.

A Better End

So how do you get your most difficult customer to buy from you? It's easier than you think, but your greed will never let you do it.

Give me information. Without charge.


No, seriously.

If you're really an expert, chances are you've got a surplus of information, right? So why not give me SOME of that information? Prove yourself to me. If you're not giving away free stuff in every e-mail, you're not marketing, you're fishing.

I want to buy from you - I really do. I just don't believe the hype.

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Life @ Google Inc.

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Google Brings Location on the iPhone

Google’s updates surrounding location are now coming fast and furious. Just a few days ago it added location to Google Maps for the Chrome and Firefox browsers. Today, it brings location to the mobile web on the iPhone.

If you have the new iPhone 3.0 software and go to Google’s homepage in Safari, you’ll notice a new message below the search box that reads, “New! Try My Location to find restaurants, shops and bars near you!” If you click on the My Location link, the iPhone will pop open a dialogue asking if it’s okay for Safari to use the device’s location services to locate you. If you opt-in, you’ll see a new blue dot below the search box with your location next to it. Do a search, and it will return local results.

And accessing functionality like location in the browser seems to tie in well with Google’s ultimate goal of having the web be the platform of choice.

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BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 leaks

If there is one thing hardcore BlackBerry users live and die by it’s definitely BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM. We gave you guys a preview of the upcoming version of BBM a little over a month ago and our inbox has been blowing up ever since. Fortunately for everyone now, BBM 5.0 has been leaked and appears to be available on most new BlackBerrys from OS 4.5 through OS 5.1. Don’t let us keep you waiting, hit the read link for direct downloads to BlackBerry Messenger 5.0!

Thanks to everyone who sent this in! [Via BGR]

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Another entrant joins mobile VoIP app market

WCell International, a Hong Kong-based VoIP calling platform for mobile devices, announced its application is now available for download on a variety of mobile operating systems. The application currently is compatible with BlackBerry, Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian, among others, and it is pending approval by Apple for listing in the iPhone App Store.

WCell, which has been bootstrapped with investment from its founders, said it can offer comparable or better voice call quality than its many competitors in the mobile VoIP applications world, while simultaneously delivering cost savings against leaders such as Skype. It said it will attempt to differentiate from the likes of Skype, fring, Nimbuzz and Truphone by targeting retail handset sales. The company aims to have 10 million paying customers of the service by November, and it will have to rapidly expand and compete with all the other entrants in the space if it to reach its goal.

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Nimbuzz ver 2.0.3 Available for Free Download

Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your buddies from Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and more. One login, one contact list, all accounts.

See who´s online and where, call/group-call, chat/chatrooms, offline messaging, send photos/music/video, voice messaging.

Nimbuzz Mobile free to download and use. Nimbuzz will not charge or bill you for anything. However, since Nimbuzz uses your internet connection, incremental data charges from your provider will apply. We therefore strongly recommend to use the mobile client only with a flat-rate data plan or free Wifi connection.

Save Money: Instead of calling minutes, Nimbuzz uses the internet to let you make free international calls to your buddies. You can also register your VoIP account to call your friends on landlines and mobile phones.

Locate your Friends: Share your location and retrieve the location of your buddies on a map. Great for arranging face to face meetings.

Make yourself heard: If your buddies are offline, let them know you’re trying to get in touch by sending them a "Buzz". It will start Nimbuzz Mobile on their mobile phone.

Never lose your Contacts: Use the Phonebook to back up and restore your contacts. Contacts will be backed up online. Comes in handy when you have lost your mobile phone.

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RIM will launch its own Music Store

BlackBerry handset maker Research in Motion (RIM) will reportedly launch an online music download service for BlackBerries in order to compete with competitors Apple and Nokia. RIM’s signing up with 7Digital to bring a 6 million track library to BlackBerry phones starting September. The service will hit in “UK, US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain,” and will be priced at the standard $0.99 track and $9.99 album model. Continue Reading...

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MasterDoc - Picture Perfect Document Viewer for Blackberry

MasterDoc blackberry software you will get in one package all essential functions a busy professional might need while away from the office. MasterDoc for blackberry devices will bring files of all the common types - DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, JPG, GIF, MP3 and WAV - to your Blackberry® in their perfect original quality whenever you are. Then you can view, send as attachments, print and fax them with no subscription fee! Your desktop files are also accessible from BlackBerry®: browse and manage them using Google Desktop.

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Get 50% off by calling from Vopium during Tour de France

Now you can call France for only 0.015 Euro to fixed lines and 0.095 Euro to mobiles. This exclusive offer is valid through Tour de France i.e. from 4th July to July 26th 2009. Take advantage of this special offer as all call to France via Vopium in next 4 weeks are now available at the lowest possible rates. No promo codes needed just signup at vopium.com and start calling!!

As a Vopium customer you also get great advantage of the Team Saxo Bank sponsorship by lots of exclusive offers.

• 20% discount from the Team Saxo Bank web shop
  
• Competitions with exciting cycling prizes

Login to your account now and find the offers. You can always find the sponsorship offers in your Vopium account under ‘Exclusive offers’ in the right menu. So enjoy the the Tour de France with the lowest calling rates from Vopium.

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Nokia 6500 Slide Sliver

There is everything in this world except of time. Nobody wants to waste his precious time. Everyone wants to save time as much as possible and wants to accept the things on which use he can save his precious time. If the same condition is with you, you can save your precious time by using cheap Nokia 6500 slide silver. If you want to buy anything, you can make a call for concern dealer that thing will reserve for you. In this way you have no need to stand in wait of his turn. A use of mobile phone is being noticed in every field of life. Even being in abroad you can talk to your family member, relatives, employees, boss and meet your purposes. It has also been noticed that a person of today's world don't use physical things as need but sometimes he uses it as a symbol of prosperity. If you too want to be looked smart, fashionable and prosperous among your friends, relatives, family members and community, cheap Nokia 6500 slide silver can serve all your purpose. Continue Reading...

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Checklist Pro for Blackberry

A real cool handy app to manage your everyday check lists efficiently. All your lists- shopping, travel, grocery, todo, DVDs, classes and much more! Why buy separate programs when checklist does it all?

CheckList Pro is an advanced and powerful application to help you manage day to day activities and tasks. Create any number of category and list items quickly and easily with the intuitive user interface.

CheckList Pro contains all the tools you need to make life and business a lot easier. Checklist Pro is designed to allow you to keep one dimensional lists on any subject and then check off the items with priority status. Three level of priority is given High, Medium and Low with three different colors. Some ideas for its use are: collectibles, book lists, video lists, CD lists, grocery lists, guest lists, to-do lists, etc...GET IT HERE

Key Features are :

1. Simple and Easy to use.

2. Easy data entry.

3. 30+ Predefined categories with icons.

4. Edit and Delete options are provided.

5. View by category is provided.

6. User can delete all entry at any time.

7. Search by item name is provided.

8. Ascending and descending order sorting.

9. All data can be retrieved at any point of time.

10. Three priority level with three different colors.

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Make Phone Calls Using Your PS3 Console and Jajah Service

Although the original article is quite dated, we haven't posted on this here yet... so for those who didn't already know:

Similar to Skype, Jajah is a VOIP service which has modified its interface to allow gamers to make calls using the PS3 browser.

According to this report, users will be able to make “free or cheap” phone calls, though the number has to be pre-configured.

To quote: “Jajah now brings free or cheap calling into the living room and away from computers. Initiating a call with Jajah can now be done while lounging in front of the TV with no need to fire up the computer,” said Roman Scharf, a Jajah co-founder.

“This means that the whole family, regardless of interests or technological skills, can make cheap or even free calls from their normal home phone.”

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Push Virus Hits iPhone

Steve jobs was not kidding when he said iPhone 3.0 would blow your mind. He has kept up his word, and the push technology (not a Virus in the literal sense) has kicked off with AIM on the iPhone. The push technology is very simple. It is quick and light application that constantly updates your status as well as your friend’s status on the AIM and other push enabled apps.

Push technology is amazing. The reduction in battery life due to the use of messaging applications such as Yahoo! Messenger, Gtalk , AiM , Twitter etc were weighing down iPhone against its competitors. Push technology has no background process; hence the battery is not drained. In fact, it makes iPhone to receive and send notifications even when it is idling. The alerts can be classified in to three kinds: badges, text alerts and audio alerts. Text alerts looks like SMS messages, Audio alerts play sound and Badges look likes applications.

App developers are adding push notifications to their apps like a wild chicken race. Games add push notifications to allow real-time invitations to a competitive match. Messaging services are scrambling to make their apps pushable. AIM, for example, became one of the first pushable messaging apps. Other great messaging apps that currently features push notifications include ebuddy, IM+ 3.0, BejeeveIM, and fring. Note that ebuddy and fring integrate all major messaging platforms together, and they are free for download! Even news apps like AP News are adding push notifications even though some say their “breaking news” are 45 minutes late.

On the iPhone push notifications is the future. We will see many apps that uses this feature in innovative ways to make our daily lives more productive and fun. See you in the future!

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BlackBerry AddressBook Synchronizer

Create new database profile using "New Profile..." wizard. Select Sync Type either "Desktop Overwrite/Append BlackBerry Address Book" or "BlackBerry Address Book Overwrite/Append Desktop" or "Import BlackBerry Address Book Contacts data to desktop as a CSV file". During new profile wizard, select desktop database, tables, fields etc. BlackBerry Address Book Contacts Synchronizer will show database preview to be transferred on BlackBerry Address Book contacts according to field mapping. User can restore desktop database.

"Desktop Overwrite/Append BlackBerr Address Book" profile will allow you to transfer desktop contents to BlackBerry Address Book, whereas "BlackBerry Address Book Overwrite/Append Desktop" profile will transfer BlackBerry Address Book contents in to desktop database.

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Features:

• Overwrite/Append any database to BlackBerry Address Book or vice versa.
• Overwrite/Append any database to any specific category of BlackBerry Address Book or vice versa (Support to Pearl/8800/Bold/Storm).
• Other Pearl/8800/Bold/Storm BlackBerry Address Book categories data will be safe while syncing any database with the specific category.
• Supported Databases: MS Access, MS FoxPro, Oracle, SQL Server, MS dBase, MySQL and Any ODBC Compliant Database.
• Keep desktop database synchronized with BlackBerry Address Book.
• Transfer data from multiple tables.
• Import BlackBerry Address Book data to desktop as a Comma Separated Values file (CSV file), Category based data can also be imported from 8800 and Pearl AddressBook.
• Apply any SQL Select queries on database to purify records.
• Now supports Backup feature on BlackBerry, which take the Backup of your AddressBook. Use Restore menu to restore your original AddressBook at any time, so no risk to loss data while testing this software.

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Warning: California is going to default!

As sure as the sun will set on the Golden State, analyst Martin Weiss says California is going to default.

By Jon Birger, senior writer| money.cnn.com

NEW YORK (Fortune) — Known for his early warnings on Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, analyst Martin Weiss of Weiss Research is now sounding the alarm about state of California municipal bonds.

In a new report, Weiss has some rather blunt advice for California muni investors: “Sell all California paper now!” His reasoning? California is facing a $24 billion budget gap with no obvious way to close it.

The state has appealed to Washington for a federal bailout, but it got a cool response from the Obama Administration. The next step is draconian cuts in state services and payroll, but Weiss says that will only deepen the “depression” in California, where the unemployment rate is 11.5%, by further cutting into tax revenue.

Asked to put odds on California defaulting on its $59 billion in outstanding general obligation bonds, Weiss doesn’t hedge. “It’s unavoidable,” he tells Fortune.

If he’s right, the impact on investors would be far broader and deeper than Bernie Madoff, General Motors (GMGMQ) or any of the other investment implosions that have occurred over the past year. Municipal bonds tend to be a retail product, which means that those most affected by a large muni bond default are not endowments, banks, or foreign governments but mom-and-pop investors.

A California default would be especially devastating for two reasons: Munis have generally been viewed as a safe haven and California is the nation’s largest issuer of tax-exempt bonds. According to Morningstar, assets in California muni bond funds now total $46 billion — with billions more of California bonds held in national muni funds and individual bond portfolios.

But if the situation is so dire, why do credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s still give the Golden State an investment-grade, single-A rating? Weiss says that the rating agencies have been consistently behind the curve, and this crisis is no different. “They’re very hesitant to downgrade,” he says.

That said, both Moody’s and S&P have put the state on a watch list and warned of possible downgrades. A downgrade below triple-B would likely precipitate a mass stampede by money market funds out of short-term California notes and make it much harder for the state to roll over maturing debt.

While Weiss believes the numbers point to a California default, he doesn’t rule out last-minute intervention by Congress or the Obama Administration. Washington may be suffering from bailout fatigue, but the political consequences of allowing the largest state in the nation to default on its bonds may prove too great.

The last time a leading municipal bond issuer was on the verge of default was 1975, when New York City was going through its own financial crisis. Then-President Gerald Ford gave a speech vowing to veto any federal assistance for New York — a speech immortalized by the next day’s New York Daily News headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”

Even though Ford later approved federal loans to New York, the political damage was done. New York had voted Republican in 1972, but four years later, Ford wound up narrowly losing the state to Jimmy Carter, which ultimately cost him the election.

Analysts think Obama is unlikely to make a similar mistake. “The most important factor here is that California has 55 electoral votes,” says Greg Valliere, Washington policy strategist at Soleil Securities. “At the end of the day, that’s why I think Washington blinks.”

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