Here’s an article I thought I’d share with everyone. I couldn’t attend WES this year, but there were plenty of others who did and published articles about the event. Al Sacco was nice enough to share his top ten BlackBerry products and services from WES 2009.

Here they are:

1. Cellcrypt
2. Chalk Media
3. Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
4. Google
5. Gwabbit (Technicopia)
6. iLane
7. LogMeIn
8. OtterBox
9. Viigo
10. Xobni

Research In Motion (RIM) held its annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) this week in Orlando, Fla., and though there were countless BlackBerry products and services on display, ten of them really stood out from the crowd. Here are our favorite BlackBerry-related offerings from WES 2009.

Research In Motion’s (RIM) Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) is the largest BlackBerry event of the year, and as such, all the heavies in the space–from BlackBerry administrators to analysts and pundits, as well as power-users and unabashed CrackBerry addicts–come out to see the latest and greatest the BlackBerry world as to offer.

CIO.com was on the scene in Orlando this week for WES, and I spent hours in the trenches BlackBerry Solutions Showcase speaking with various vendors about their newest wares. I came across a plethora of noteworthy products and services, too, and though many more deserve mention, I’ve culled my 10 favorite offerings, listed in alphabetical order, for folks who couldn’t make the show.

Read more @ CIO.com

A few weeks ago I posted about the Xobni desktop application and their new partnership with the BlackBerry Partners Fund.

TechCrunch got a picture Xobni running on a BlackBerry showing its contact search feature.

Here’s a description of Xobni:

Xobni, the word “inbox” spelled backwards, has created a new way to look at your email. Xobni takes the effort out of organizing, searching, and navigating your email.

The only thing that has changed with email in the last ten years is that everyone gets more of it. Email is overflowing with information. It’s hard to find what you need. It’s hard to know what you have.

Xobni creates an information profile for each person you interact with, and surfaces historical information that is relevant to what you are working on. Xobni displays contact information, threaded conversations, attachments, related people, email usage statistics, and information from the web. Xobni organizes your communication data and makes it available through intuitive navigation and super fast search.

Xobni currently integrates with the popular Microsoft Outlook email client and will extend to integrate with other email clients, instant messaging applications, and social networks.

Who already uses Xobni on their desktop? Check them out at Xobni.com

* UPDATE In my haste to post this (was running late for a class) I placed it in the wrong category. Xobni is actually meant for use on a desktop PC. I posted about it because I thought it was pretty cool with all its features, and because of their new involvement with the BlackBerry Partners Fund. I also changed the screenshots to a demo video so you can see what it’s about. Sorry about the confusion. *

Some highlights from the press release:

• Xobni, the popular Outlook search and relationship plugin, today announced an investment from the BlackBerry Partners Fund to bring the company’s Series B round to over $10 million. The company has also removed its beta label with the introduction of Xobni v1.7. The new version of Xobni includes significant performance improvements to its relationship management sidebar and is available as a free download here: http://xobni.com/download
• The BlackBerry Partners Fund’s investment allows Xobni to continue developing innovative solutions, including its lightning fast inbox search and powerful relationship management tools.
• Since the launch of Xobni’s public beta in May 2008, the company has been working to optimize speed and performance.
• Xobni has also enhanced its product offering throughout the past year by developing strategic partnerships with leading content providers including LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Skype and Hoover’s.

Read the full press release after the jump.

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