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All of the built-in apps on iPad were designed from the ground up to take advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen. And they work in any orientation. So you can do things with these apps that you can’t do on any other device.SafariThe large Multi-Touch screen on iPad lets you see web pages as they were meant to be seen — one page at a time. With

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Pre-Order on March 12CUPERTINO, California—March 5, 2010—Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sw

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Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs.“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PC

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Today Nokia and Skype officially launched Skype for Symbian in Nokia's Ovi Store.The free client lets Nokia smartphone owners place Skype calls over WiFi and GPRS/EDGE/3G mobile connections. You can also send Skype messages, and share pictures and voice messages with your Skype buddies.The application requires Symbian^1, which means it's compatible with

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Apple is suing phone maker HTC, alleging that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware of the iPhone."We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it," Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said T

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Cellular phone companies are now beginning to develop new technologies that will help make telecommunications much easier and more appealing to a lot of its consumers. One particular advancement that these cellular phone companies have made on their cellular phones is the 3G technology. 3G technology, which is short for third generation mobile telephone comm

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Framingham, MA --The worldwide mobile phone market grew 11.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09), ending five consecutive quarters of retrenchment. According to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 325.3 million units in 4Q09 compared to 292.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008. Vendors shipped a total of 1.13 billion units on a c

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Looks like Verizon is planning on ending their Buy One Get One Free BlackBerry promotion right before the Pearl Flip comes along with the Tour and Storm 2. The BOGO promotion was and still is extremely popular so its sad to see it go. The BoyGenius is reporting that they will be replacing it [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, Buy One Get One Free, Verizon Wireless

This brings a whole new meaning to “Good Morning, Vietnam.” Josep sent me a link to an article on VietnameNet that really shocked me. I know there are knockoff iPhones, iPods, and others but I had yet to hear of a real knockoff BlackBerry.It looks like BlackBerrys are getting their own knockoffs in Vietnam. [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, BlackBerry, Knockoffs, Vietnam

I don’t know how idberry does it, but they consistently put out some very nice themes in a short amount of time. Theme junkies like me gotta love them for that! Anyway, I haven’t even gotten the chance to test all three of their latest themes but didn’t want to wait for that before mentioning [...]

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You can always count on USBFever to come up with some wacky USB gadgets. Their latest is a USB 2.0 hub with 4 ports that also includes a battery and solar charger. This means that you can charge your gadgets from the hub using its 700mAh battery. While that will not fully charge your [...]

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Review: PocketDay ProfessionalRating: 9 out of 10 starsDesktop Manager Download:LinkOTA Download : LinkVersion: v5.5.0.5.Cost: $34.95 in the BerryReview StoreI know we have done reviews in the past of PocketDay Professional (Link), but the folks at Cross River Systems (www.pocketday.com) have been hard at work over the past year updating this application tha

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I don’t usually have enough time to be watching TV but I am a fan of the Burn Notice show. There is something about the fast paced action and stuff blowing up that just captures my attention. Ghostshel pointed out to me that they recently had a ad spot (product placement) in the show [...]

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This little news tidbit made me chuckle. It looks like Microsoft employees used to be able to get a data subsidy for their devices no matter if it was a Windows Mobile or BlackBerry device. I am surprised that Microsoft did not implement this policy earlier but now subsidies are limited to Windows Mobile. [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, Employees, Microsoft, Subsidy

I guess Sprint is always a little behind Verizon. Their announcement came out a little after Verizon’s but they give a bit more detail. The confirm that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 will be coming this summer for $199.99 after $150 in rebates with a 2 year contract.Check out their splash site at this link [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 9630, News, BlackBerry Tour, Official, Sprint

We have already established that T-Mobile will be getting the upcoming low cost 8520 Curve (aka Gemini). Now we have further proof with some eye candy of a T-Mobile branded 8520. Nothing really shocking in this pic but it is good to see that they are well on their way out the door.The two [...]

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I hate vague statements like that. RIM pushed out one of their classic midnight press releases for the BlackBerry Tour. They are nice and vague about the release date saying that:“The BlackBerry Tour smartphone (model number: 9630) is expected to be available this summer from carriers in North America.”Anybody speak vague-ish? Last time I [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 9630, News, BlackBerry Tour, Release, Summer

I guess that confirms the Tour as the official name. Verizon now has a splash page live for the BlackBerry Tour. Not much in terms of details but you can sign up for the chance to get in on a early pre-order. Hopefully Verizon & RIM will release some more details soon…Check out the splash [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 9630, News, BlackBerry Tour, Verizon Wireless

*Update: Brian just alerted me that the code I listed for a freebie of this theme was incorrect. Hence, there are still 10 freebies of the Tiger Berry OSX theme for the 8900, 9000 & 9500 to be had. First 10 people to go and use the code ‘Freebie Reviewed’ (make sure there is a [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 8900 Curve, 9000 Bold, 9500 Storm, Themes

Ani from www.getemporwer.com let us know about their application called AddTo, which does exactly what the name implies: convert any email or SMS into an appointment or memo on your calendar. I always get email with appointments for meetings and other stuff that I need to remember later while am on the road, [...]

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While I’m sure Pocket Life, an online beta social networking site with a mobile version, is not new (I had sort of vaguely heard of in the past) I had never really looked too much into it. Then I saw it in our store, for free, but was unable to find the link to actually [...]

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Hangman really brings back memories… Tafasa let me know about a new game they have released based on the classic Hangman game. It has one player and two player modes where you can either play one of almost 3000 word puzzles or enter in a word for a friend to guess. You can also research [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 9500 Storm, Games, News, Hangman, Tafasa

Kelly let me know about this interesting new application for the Storm. Many users are pissed off that they cannot record calls on their BlackBerry. I know it is illegal without notifying the other party but as far as I know that is only if you want to admit it into court. What happens [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 9500 Storm, News, Utilities, BerryRecord, BerryWAV, Recording, Voice Notes

Tashanna let me know about this new app from VikySoft called CameraToGo. It will mute your camera so you have no shutter sound. It will also let you set a delay timer so that you can count down to a picture. I am not sure what you would use the timer for since you cannot [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, Utilities, Camera, Mute, Timer, VikySoft

While perusing the PinStack forums, I ran across a post by Krazy Kat. It just happened to be a download link for Verizon’s VCast Song ID for the Storm. I downloaded and tested it out and it works really well with my Storm on T-Mobile. I guess they really are not keeping tight control on [...]

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William and Robbie let me know that Docs To Go was updated to version 1.007.042. Nothing really crazy new other than fixes for existing charts in Word and PowerPoint files and other various bugs!!! YAY! That sounds almost exactly like the update (1.007.036) they released on May 6th.Sorry its is just hard getting excited about [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, Documents, Free Software, News, Utilities, 1.007, Charts, Documents To Go

Older Curves have been left out in the cold when it comes to recent OS releases. They are still stuck with the memory leaks but RIM has been much slower in updating them. Raptor464 Let me know that the 8310 just got some official update love from O2 UK. The latest version 4.5.0.163 is newer [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 8300 Curve, News, OS Releases, 4.5.0.163, 8310, O2 UK, Official

The BoyGenius scored some great screencandy of an upcoming update to BlackBerry Messenger. BlackBerry Messenger has not really seen a big update other than a facelift in years so it is nice to see that RIM has not forgotten about it. They have actually added one of my favorite features to the device. You [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, Avatars, BlackBerry Messenger, GPS, Proximity, Update

NOTE: This is currently only available for the Bold but other Wi-Fi BlackBerry support is coming soon! Gideon let me know about a new app they have just developed. The app is called Wi-Fi File Transfer and is a great solution that I am surprised nobody thought of before. It simply lets you browse [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, News, Utilities, bold, File Transfer, Wi-Fi, Wireless

NOTE: This is not for the faint of heart. This is not a final release and you may end up screwing up your whole device. You have been warned! We just got a hot tip through from Secretagent 745.This is a new multilanguage version of BB Desktop Manager 5.0Its the big one with Roxio [...]

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The first thought I had when I saw a picture of the iSkin Vibes and Vibes FX cases is that these are loud cases for the total attention lover. People will be asking you what you did with your phone. They are shiny, flashy, and come in the most attention grabbing colors. Just look at [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, 8900 Curve, 9000 Bold, 9500 Storm, Accessories, Cases, News, iSkin, Storm. Bold, Vibes

NOTE: This is some pretty scary news for companies which have “BlackBerry” anywhere in your domain name… “Berry” seems fine since RIM was denied all of those. I guess RIM thinks they own every “Berry”.When RIM originally launched their blog, Inside BlackBerry, they did not actually own www.insideblackberry.com. Personally I thought they were crazy [..

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As part of my 2009 Society for New Communications Research Fellowship, I gave a talk titled ‘SMS as a Social Networking Platform’ at the 2009 NewComm Forum in San Francisco on April 29.I started off by saying that one of the most important lessons my research on social media in the emerging BRIC countries has [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Event, Innovation, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Social Change 2.0, Social Media, Africa, Asia, Design, Mobile Social Networking, SMS, Social-Networking

As an alternative to the brown bag and the oft expense sit down lunch, few things are better or cheaper than a delicious styrofoam container of street meat, particularly these days, as increasing numbers of vendors are marrying mobility with haute cuisine. Without having to pay high rents and always being able to go where the crowd is, these lunch trucksR

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Food &, Drink, Trends In The US, Web &, Technology, Work &, Business, location-based advertising, lunch trucks, mobile, street meat, street vendors, Twitter

As an alternative to the brown bag and the oft expense sit down lunch, few things are better or cheaper than a delicious styrofoam container of street meat, particularly these days, as increasing numbers of vendors are marrying mobility with haute cuisine. Without having to pay high rents and always being able to go where the crowd is, these lunch trucksR

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Food &, Drink, Trends In The US, Web &, Technology, Work &, Business, location-based advertising, lunch trucks, mobile, street meat, street vendors, Twitter

My Global Voices post (original here) was mentioned in an America.gov roundup of reactions to the 2009 Indian election results.Here is the full text of the article –2009 Indian Elections: The Blogosphere Reacts— By Tanya Brothen, 20 May 2009With national elections in the world’s most populous democracy, India, coming to an end earlier than had [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Citizen Activism, Citizen Journalism, Indian Elections 2009, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Press, Social Change 2.0, Social Media, America.gov, IndiaVotes09, Lok Sabha, reactions, Results

I gave a talk at NetSquared DC on Tuesday where I talked about social media and digital activism in India, digital initiatives during the 2009 Indian elections, and Vote Report India. I talked about our experience in using Ushahidi for election monitoring and our plans to integrate Swift into Ushahidi. I talked about how eMoksha [...]

At the NY Tech Meetup in February, we got a peek at a new mobile service called omgicu. After its launch a few weeks back, there has been a lot of buzz--and debate--about it. omgicu can be described as a real-time version of Gawker Stawker, enabling anyone to "spot" celebs and blast it out Gossip Girl-style… Continue reading PSFK Interview: Hugh Dornb

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At the NY Tech Meetup in February, we got a peek at a new mobile service called omgicu. After its launch a few weeks back, there has been a lot of buzz--and debate--about it. omgicu can be described as a real-time version of Gawker Stawker, enabling anyone to "spot" celebs and blast it out Gossip Girl-style… Continue reading PSFK Interview: Hugh Dornb

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Entertainment, Media &, Publishing, PSFK Inpiration Interviews, User Generated Content, Web &, Technology, celebrity, celebs, mobile, omgicu

Vote Report India was featured today in Cadalyst Magazine story on Ushahidi.Here is the full text of the story –Indian Citizens Serve as Election MonitorsOpen-source technologies empower a geopolitical movement driven by the people.May 19, 2009By: Kenneth WongIn late April, ordinary Indian citizens — the tiffin wallahs, the programmers, and the c

Vote Report India was featured today on France 24 TV report on the reactions to the Indian election results in the Indian online community. The report also referenced my reflections on the successes and failures of Vote Report India and talked about our plans to use the Vote Report India Version 2.0 to monitor the [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Blogging, Citizen Activism, Citizen Journalism, Indian Elections 2009, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Press, Social Media, France 24, IndiaVotes09, Manmogan Singh, Vote Report India, YouTube. Blogs

I was interviewed recently by Homeland Security Today for a article on the use of social media and mobile technologies in crisis situations. I talked about how technology is agnostic and can be used by both good guys and bad guys. We specifically talked about how both victims and terrorists were using mobile phones during [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Cyber Security, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Press, Social Media, Activists, Crisis, Interview, Mumbai, Surveillance, Terrorist, Twitter

Tamara Palamakumbura at DigiActive has a great interview with Dr. Awab Alvi, one of the organizers of Pakistan’s 2009 Long March on the use od social media tools to organize and report on the protest –The campaign mixed old and familiar tools such as Twitter and Facebook, with new and customized tools. Twitter was augmented [...]

I had mentioned yesterday that we will soon relaunch Vote Report India as a platform to crowd-source the performance monitoring of our elected members of parliament.We have submitted Vote Report India to the Netsquared Microsoft Mobile Challenge for Development. The winners win up to $15000 and an opportunity to be showcased at the N2Y4 Mobile [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Citizen Activism, Internet, Mobile, Social Change 2.0, Social Media, Citizen Engagement, Development, eMoksha, Microsoft, NetSquared, Swift, transparency, Ushahidi, Vote Report India

The 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections have come to an end and so has version 1.0 of Vote Report India.We have had our successes and failures and I have talked about some of them before.I think we did a lot of things well –- We were able to get the website up within a week, [...]

An article I had submitted sometime back appeared in Hindustan Times today. It’s a reflection on whether digital initiatives by civil society organizations have worked in the 2009 Indian elections.Here is the full text of the article –E-lection feverThe successful online poll initiatives and blogs may help India 2014 do a US 2008Gaurav MishraOne

Interested in taking your on-line BlackBerry helpline in your pocket with you ? We are working towards 13, 500 active members and strive to answer each and every question posted on the forum as quickly as possible. We have set up a couple of different options for the mobile version.The first is a mobile, cut down version:www.blackberryforums.com.au/ota/BB

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Evernote let us know that they are now available for the BlackBerry smart phone. Evernote is designed to help you remember important ideas by allowing you to write them down, or save a snapshot of what you want to view later on. The cool part about this software is that it has twitter integration, it [...]

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Peter from BPlay let us know they just released 2 new themes on their site; Nature Scenes & Stewie Griffin. Nature Scenes, shown below, features 15 brilliant nature backgrounds that rotate every 15 minutes. It’s a clean theme that looked gorgeous on my Bold. Nature Scenes costs $5.99 and is available for most BlackBerry devices [...]

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Sometimes these teeny little apps pack the most punch. Or maybe it’s because I wasn’t looking for anything fancy to keep track of my phone calls…and when I made them. I just wanted something easy that could tell me who I called - and when - so I could mark it down in my [...]

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Peter from Elecite just sent in some exciting news! Starting yesterday, they have taken 10 of their most popular themes and re-created them for the 8350i/Sprint BlackBerry. Choose from either Ascarii 2.0, Distinct, Droid, Grunge, iBerry, Inspirat, Leopard, PSB, Scion and xBerry! Just going by the screen shot above, these themes are gonna look awesome [...]

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I’ll be giving a talk on Vote Report India at NetSquared DC on Tuesday, May 19th.Vote Report India is a collaborative citizen-driven election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections, built on the Ushahidi platform. I’ll talk about the story behind the project, reflect on how well the project has worked, and share [...]

Topics：gauravonomics blog, mumbai, bombay, india, Citizen Activism, Event, Indian Elections 2009, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Social Change 2.0, Social Media, IndiaVotes09, NetSquared DC, SMS, talk, Ushahidi, Vote Report India

Akash reminded me that it has been a LONG time since we did a “Top 10” applications I use on my BlackBerry. I actually started this list as a regular Top 10 including paid applications. That is when I realized that there are only three paid applications that I actually use. CryptMagic which is [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, Editorial, Editors' Choice, Free Software, Top 10

Vote Report India and Ushahidi were recently featured on America.gov on a story on the use of mapping mashups for citizen journalism.08 May 2009Online Maps Enable Citizens to Report, Track EventsInternet tool being used to monitor India electionsBy Michelle Austein BrooksStaff WriterWashington — Online mapping tools like MapQuest and Google Maps are known f

Vote Report India was recently featured in Indian magazine Man’s World in a story on transparency initiatives related to the 2009 Indian elections.’The Watchdogs of Democracy’ is a great headline.The story isn’t online yet, so I’ll post the text as an update. In the meanwhile, you can read high resolution scans of the story (pag

Adam pointed out Handheld Contact to me as the most expensive app he has found so far in the App World. Clocking in at $24.95/month or $239/year from their website or 249.99/year in the App World it is quite a pricey purchase. On the other hand once I took a look at it the app [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, Calendar/Tasks, News, Software Directory, Utilities, ACT!, Handheld Contact

Adam pointed out Handheld Contact to me as the most expensive app he has found so far in the App World. Clocking in at $24.95/month or $239/year from their website or 249.99/year in the App World it is quite a pricey purchase. On the other hand once I took a look at it the app [...]

Topics：Mobile, Cell Phone, Blackberry, Review, Calendar/Tasks, News, Software Directory, Utilities, ACT!, Handheld Contact

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