I first told you about Best Buy Mobile’s new and free mIQ wireless syncing service a few weeks ago but totally forgot to follow up with the official launch on October 12th!

mIQ is an awesome app/service that I’m sure many of you will appreciate since you can do so much while on the run. About mIQ:

Mobile technology is pretty amazing, but getting the most out of it can sometimes be challenging. mIQ was created to make it easy for users to unleash the potential of their mobile phone.

mIQ from Best Buy Mobile helps users sync their contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, and internet favorites from their mobile phones to their private web-based mIQ account. Once in sync, the user can backup and interact with their information, share their experiences with friends and social sites, discover the top solutions available for their phones, and restore their content when moving from one phone to the next.

The mIQ service keeps the phone and the web constantly connected, so that the stuff done on one automatically shows up on the other in just a few seconds, helping users access and share their stuff whether they’re on the go or in front of their computers – no cables or effort required!

For more info and to sign up head to miqlive.com from your desktop browser or m.miqlive.com from your BlackBerry Browser to download the app OTA.

Thanks George!

Best Buy Mobile let me know about a new service they are launching on October 12th called mIQ. This service allows you to access, share and manage mobile data through a secure and personal Web portal, all done over the air!

Key Features

• Data backup & management: Upgrading to a new phone used to be a hassle. With mIQ, all content that lives on the mobile device — contacts, text messages, calendar events, calls, photos, videos, and voicemail messages — is automatically uploaded and safely backed-up on a personal Web-based mIQ account making it easy to sync, search, interact with, share it or transfer it from one phone to another. Since the mobile phone is constantly connected to the Web, mIQ automatically syncs any changes from the Web to the mobile device and vice-versa, instantly.
• Contacts: mIQ helps users easily manage and track the communication with all their contacts. Contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and other sources can be imported into the mIQ account and synchronized with the mobile phone. Users can then add, edit, or delete contacts from the personal mIQ account – the changes will be instantly pushed to the mobile phone and backed up on the web. Additionally, mIQ enables users to easily view text messages and calls associated with each contact.
• Enhanced text messaging: The mIQ Web platform provides an instant message-like experience by organizing SMS text messages into a conversational format. mIQ automatically uploads text messages to an inbox in the personal mIQ account where they can be read, forwarded, or responded to from any computer. Unlike other Web messaging solutions that deliver texts from random phone numbers, mIQ sends the text messages through the user’s mobile phone, ensuring that the recipient will always know who the message is from.
• Calendar: Instant access to appointments and events is important whether sitting in front of a computer or on the go. mIQ automatically uploads appointments and events from the phone calendar to the Web. Users can then add, edit, or delete calendar entries from either the mobile phone or the mIQ account and changes are automatically synched between the two platforms.
• Photos and videos: mIQ enables users to do more with the memories captured with their smartphones. mIQ automatically uploads photos and videos from the mobile phone to the personal mIQ account – as soon as they are taken – making it easy to organize them by adding titles and descriptions, share them through email and text messages and post them to social networking sites.
• Social media connectivity: Social networking on mobile devices has taken connectivity to a whole new level. Updating friends on the latest happenings no longer requires a trip to the computer. mIQ features instant connectivity to popular social sites like Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed and Twitter, helping users share their mobile experiences – status, photos and videos – directly from their smartphone, wherever they may be.

Pretty awesome and best of all…it’s FREE!

Right now you can sign up for an invite and take a tour of this service at miqlive.com. For more info check out the press release after the jump. Once the service launches don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments!

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Dazzboard let me know that they have launched the public beta their universal media management webtop application.

“We see our webtop app as a kind of ‘open iTunes,’ allowing for free and easy data flow from various mobile devices to social media accounts and vice versa,” commented CEO Tero Salonen. “By streamlining the upload and download process and eliminating the need for installing a variety of proprietary desktop applications for each device, Dazzboard will drastically simplify people’s lives.”

Features include:

• One-Click Distribution. Send and receive media to and from online services, including Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more.
• High Quality. All media from HD Video to high resolution Photos and quality MP3s are supported, with no limits on transfer.
• Plug and Play. Transfer instantly from Flickr to camera to laptop to mobile to digital frame to … your toaster, and back again!
• No Desktop Application. No need for proprietary software to connect your phone, media player or other portable device again.
• Many devices, One Solution. All major portable devices are automatically recognized.

You can click here to sign up or visit dazzboard.com for more info.

Read the full press release after the jump.

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* UPDATE Kyle let me know that a Pearl, Curve 8300 series and Storm version will be available for Beta testing soon so be sure to check back for updates. *

Kyle Fowler is developing an image cropping application for BlackBerry called CropIt and is in need of beta testers. CropIt basically mimics the functionality of a PC based cropping tool, currently being tested for the Curve 8900 and Bold 9000.

As RIM tries to make the Blackberry more and more of a competitor to the iPhone an on device image cropping application is essential for users of sites like Facebook and Flickr. CropIt gives you an easy way to edit these pictures before uploading them to your social networking sites with out having to move them to your computer first. CropIt is currently in beta and should be available soon.

Since CropIt is in beta you may encounter some issues and bugs, so install at your own risk. Beta testers are great helpers when it comes to developing an application.

If you decide to download CropIt please make sure you send feedback to Kyle at fowlke6@wfu.edu or leave some comments here.

Kyle also let me know that CropIt will eventually be a premium application so download it now if you’d like a preview of what it will be like when it’s released.

• Download OTA:
  • Cropit for the Curve 8900
  • CropIt for the Bold 9000
• Info: Kyle Fowler BlackBerry Projects Page
• How To: Install applications and themes via OTA with or without using data

CrackBerry member ivanmor decided to tattoo himself with the BlackBerry App World logo!

How’s that for true addiction. This guy will probably become some sort of modern-day “illustrated man” with all tech tattoos because this one isn’t his first!

• Check them out: ivanmor’s Flickr page

Some highlights from the press release:

• Tiny Pictures, Inc. today launched Flickr integration for Radar (http://radar.net)–the leading service for real-time sharing of cameraphone pictures, videos and conversations between friends. The integration allows users to follow Flickr photos as they’re shared and stay on top of conversations around photostreams, directly from the Radar mobile applications, mobile site and desktop site.
• Existing Radar users simply connect their Radar and Flickr accounts and choose which Flickr contacts they want to follow. Flickr photos and comments appear in-line with Radar content on mobile and desktop, and comments left on Flickr photos immediately appear on the Flickr site.
• Radar with Flickr integration is available on all web-enabled phones on all networks in the world through the Radar mobile site, and through mobile applications for Java, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and iPhone.

Read the full press release after the jump.

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BerryBlow announced today a new application called MiaWallpaper for the BlackBerry Storm.

From the description:

MiaWallpaper will automatically change the wallpaper on the Home Screen randomly from a local folders or download photos automatically Online from the Internet – with public Flickr photo stream. Specify preferred update interval and use efficient algorithm MiaWallpaper. to update the Home Screen and save your battery life. Always different, always new photos, discover the world with MiaWallpaper.

Features:

• Application downloads photos from the Internet, from Flickr public photostream, you can set up download size for one request, this can decrease amount of traffic, application uses about 20 Kb per minute, but you can decrease it, if set up update time to 3, 5, 10 or minutes
• You can set up update interval – 1, 5, 10, 30 minute and 1 hour, now works only one minute (don’t worry, we’ll implement others soon)
• Application has efficient algorithm in downloading, saving and scaling the photos
• Application has idle mode, when backlight is off application save your battery life, don’t worry about it
• Also works when device is locked

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• Download OTA: http://m.berryblow.com/
• Download ZIP: http://berryblow.com/downloads/wallpaper_beta.zip
• Info: http://www.berryblow.com/

Some highlights from the press release:

• BlackBerry Pearl 8120 in indigo now exclusively available to Orange Pay As You Go (PAYG) customers
• For just £5 a month, Orange PAYG customers can access email, as well as their favourite social networking sites from the stylish BlackBerry Pearl 8120
• Orange today announced it will be bringing the BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8120 to its Pay As You Go (PAYG) customers. The smartphone, which provides exceptional phone; email, messaging, organiser, web browser and multimedia capabilities, will be priced at £145, with customers now able to take out a BlackBerry® Internet Service that provides email, messaging and web access whilst on the move.

Check out the full press release after the jump.

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*UPDATE* Added OTA download links.

Found an article I thought BlackBerry Storm owners would appreciate.

Here are the applications listed:

• Weatherbug
• Viigo
• Flickr
• TalkLock
• WorldMate Live
• Storm Level Pro (BlackBerry Storm Only)
• Opera Browser
• Twitterberry
• Tiltris Tilting Boxy Game Quick Download Code 40256
  
• Facebook

With the Storm out, this little Vodafone-inspired iPhone killer is itself inspired by the Apple smartphone’s App Store. And while the official Application Centre is still a couple of months away we thought that Absolute Gadget would bring you the top 10 best apps available for the RIM smartphone on one page.

Read more @ Absolute Gadget

Pete6, a moderator over at CrackBerry, announced the release of CrackMem v3.1

New in CrackMem v3.1 is the ability to remove:

• Google,
• Facebook
• Flickr
• VZW Navigator
• ICQ

This utility is especially useful for those who want to customize their new OS install, and wish to optimize their BlackBerry’s memory.

More info/download: CrackBerry forums page for CrackMem