Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 3:53 PM | Comments
According to an article I just read, AT&T has released an “anti-Storm sales guide.” Whats the matter AT&T, afraid of a little competition from Verizon? Or is it that the BlackBerry Storm will outperform the iPhone with what matters.
Or maybe they’re being overconfident about their precious iPhone and just trying to beat down the Storm. Well guess what AT&T…the iPhone will never make it as a true and fully capable smartphone. The iPhone has nothing on the BlackBerry, and the Storm will prove just that.
I’m a student at a state university, and I’ve only seen a few iPhones here and there. I’ve seen a lot more BlackBerries though. Will you ever see more iPhones than BlackBerries on a college campus? I highly doubt it. Know why? Because the iPhone is just a hyped up media “smartphone” and nothing more. Ok so you can download more games on your iPhone than I can on my BlackBerry (which isn’t true), where and are you really going to play those games? In class, at home, or at work? In class you shouldn’t be playing games (although some of us do ), at home you probably have gaming consoles or a computer, and at work…well, you have to work!
Of course, many people are now buying the iPhone as a second device…a “leisure” device. There’s no problem with that at all. Once the BlackBerry Storm comes out, you won’t need that extra leisure device.
Does AT&T really think RIM is going to keep what they offer for their BlackBerry users the same? No…they’re going to make it better!
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM | Comments
VANCOUVER, BC — (Marketwire) — 09/24/08 — Flowfinity® Wireless Inc., a leadingprovider of adaptable mobile applications, is announcing today that it islaunching Flowfinity Actions 5.5, the latest version of its award-winningwireless application workflow platform. Flowfinity Actions is an adaptablemobile workflow platform that enables point-and-click customization ofenterprise applications that are both easy-to-use and powerful incapability. This release includes picture storage, search and retrieval andintegration with the built-in camera featured on the BlackBerry®Pearl(TM) and BlackBerry® Curve(TM) series smartphones, as well as thenew BlackBerry® Bold(TM) smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM)(NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM).
By combining access to data while giving managers the power to assign work,track progress, and get reports on business outcomes, Flowfinity Actionsmakes teams more productive and empowers managers to make better decisions.These qualities, combined with its unmatched adaptability, have allowedmany Flowfinity Actions customers to use it to improve work ordermanagement, project management, asset management, sales management, andcompliance management. The new picture storage, search and retrievalcapabilities in Flowfinity Actions 5.5 can enhance each of theseapplication use cases, and can have value in new application areas such ashomeland security, insurance, and property management.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 10:09 AM | Comments
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) September 24, 2008 — Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that it has entered in to a partnership with the Yorkshire Post to deliver its news and information to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones.
Life in the information age has generated an expectancy of immediate access to news. This has caused publishers of traditional media such as newspapers, magazines and other print materials to broaden the method by which they deliver their content. Most have created websites that allow internet users to browse and find the information they are looking for. Because people have further adapted to having news delivered to them, a new wave of information push is taking hold.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM | Comments
Google added NJ Transit and the New York area public transportation system to its popular mapping service.
NJ Transit rail and light rail riders have been able to use the trip planning tool since March. But the integration announced Tuesday means it’s now also available for trips that include all 240 of the agency’s bus routes as well as Metropolitan Transportation Authority and PATH services.
Users looking up locations in the region city will now get public transit options alongside driving directions. The feature includes information about subways, buses and commuter railroads.
Google offers transit information in about 70 other cities worldwide, including Chicago and Tokyo.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 8:59 AM | Comments
Ascendent Systems today announced that Sprint has certified the latest version of the award-winning Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite (VMS) to enable fixed mobile convergence in the enterprise. Ascendent VMS v4.5 can now integrate with BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS) Services on BlackBerry Enterprise Server, allowing BlackBerry smartphone users to have menu-driven desk phone features and providing corporate IT and telecom departments with better control of their mobile usage and costs.
Ascendent VMS enables mobile workers to have one enterprise phone number, consolidated voicemail and easy access to desk phone features on any mobile device. When Ascendent VMS is integrated with BlackBerry MVS, an even more optimized and intuitive experience is enabled as desk phone features are built into the visual menus of the BlackBerry phone application. With a simple click, users can transfer a call, dial the extension of a colleague or seamlessly move a call between their desk phone and their BlackBerry smartphone.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 24, 2008 at 8:57 AM | Comments
Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) September 24, 2008 — PhoneFusion™, the leading provider of reliable communications solutions to businesses of all sizes, today announced that its Fusion Voicemail Plus™ service has been given the “Most innovative Product” Best of Show Award at Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO West 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles from September 16-18, 2008.
Fusion Voicemail Plus™ gives users an innovative user interface to visually display, select and listen to voicemail messages – integrated into one screen. It centralizes and texturally lists all voicemails from multiple systems. Each voicemail header contains multiple identifiers including the true caller ID name. A simple tap of a button is all that’s needed to quickly scroll, select, listen to, call back and delete messages in order of choice. By eliminating the need to dial one or more voicemail systems and wade through messages in chronological order, it’s a true time saver.
“The presence of outstanding companies like PhoneFusion with their award winning solutions help to validate ITEXPO’s status as the leading forum for the VoIP and IP communications industry,” said TMC President and Conference Chairman, Rich Tehrani. “Service providers, enterprise buyers, developers and resellers come to ITEXPO because they know they’ll find solutions from innovative companies like PhoneFusion that can help their businesses today.”
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM | Comments
CALGARY, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Multiplied Media Corporation is pleased to announce the release of a special version of Poynt designed specifically for the BlackBerry Bold to take full advantage of the video streaming capabilities native to the recently released smartphone.
Consumers have come to rely on the convenience that Poynt provides in finding local business and movie information. Now, owners of the BlackBerry Bold are able to utilize Poynt to view streaming movie trailers on their device. The new version is available to owners of the BlackBerry Bold in Canada and will be supported when the smartphones are released on the AT&T network in the United States.
“We don’t believe that the consumer should be tied to their desktop to quickly get the information they need to plan their shopping, dining and entrtainement needs,” said John Lowe, CEO, Multiplied Media. “The release of the BlackBerry Bold has allowed us to add video streaming functionality to Poynt which provides a more robust experience for the consumer, no matter where they happen to be.”
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 23, 2008 at 10:08 PM | Comments
Englewood Cliffs, NJ – September 23, 2008 – KeyToss (http://keytoss.com), a fast-growing Internet start-up focused on the global smartphone market, announced the release of major features to its powerful, personalizable smartphone portal.
For the first time in a full-featured, mobile portal, users will be able to add virtually any link to their personal web pages, and share them with others.
KeyToss enables four types of custom links:
- links to mobile-friendly pages
- links to pages that are automatically converted to mobile format using one of four mobile transcoders
- links to user-selected news feeds
- links to Google Local searches customized to the user’s location
Users can choose from a set of pre-selected links, or enter their own links, either by typing them directly, or by clicking a bookmarklet while browsing from a PC.
Other new features include a Gmail status module and a mobile transcoder module. The Gmail module alerts the user to new messages in the selected Gmail account, and provides a direct link to the Gmail Mobile website. The mobile transcoder module gives users a choice of four mobile transcoders – Google, Mowser, Skweezer, and Phonify – to convert any webpage into mobile-friendly format.
The KeyToss mobile portal is available at http://m.keytoss.com. The service is free.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 23, 2008 at 10:01 PM | Comments
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yougetitback.com, whose recent North American launch gained wide acclaim for helping to protect and recover mobile devices from theft and loss, today announced new features that further enrich the service in preserving the owners’ highly personal – and valuable — information and preventing identity theft.
“Our goal all along has been a truly feature-rich Yougetitback.com that goes way beyond ‘lost and found’ by helping people to protect their privacy and recover their valuable lost and stolen mobile assets, such as phones, laptops, iPods, etc.,” said Yougetitback.com CEO Frank Hannigan. “By enhancing our website, we’re giving our users a variety of tools they can use to minimize intrusion into their personal and private information and save them from huge bills – or worse – if their mobile devices go missing.
“For instance, we think our new device-location and -locking features will be very appealing to users who are concerned about never having the information stored in their smart phones, PDAs or laptops falling into the hands of personal-identity thieves,” he added.
Hannigan said the new upgrade offers users of Yougetitback’s “Mobile SuperHero” application additional levels of protection for their smart phones if a device is lost or stolen, including significantly extended device-location and -locking capabilities.
If a user’s device is GPS-capable, Yougetitback’s ability to pinpoint its location when lost or stolen is “fantastic,” he said. And because Yougetitback supports RIM’s BlackBerry operating system 4.2 and above, and the Symbian operating system S60 2nd and 3rd editions, many devices without GPS can be located via their proximity to individual wireless-network cell sites.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 23, 2008 at 9:59 PM | Comments
WorldMate, Inc., a company specializing in mobile travel services for the frequent flyer and road warrior, today announces a new brand identity and its biggest upgrade to WorldMate Live, the Company’s flagship product, since its launch one year ago.
Over 1.5 million users have downloaded and installed WorldMate’s suite of products in the past 12 months (i.e. since the company’s switch to a Freemium model).
WorldMate introduces its new branding, including updated logo and look-and-feel, on its Web site and within the WorldMate Live service. The company also announces significant advancements in usability for both Web and mobile applications, including a new home screen featuring a contextual dashboard based on users’ travel behavior, and a “carousel” display and navigation of all WorldMate Live’s services.
WorldMate Live — available on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices — allows travelers to easily create, plan and manage their entire itinerary, as well as access critical real-time information related to their travel schedule.
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), at home you probably have gaming consoles or a computer, and at work…well, you have to work!
