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Travel

Air Canada Offers BlackBerry App For Check-In

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Having rolled out an iPhone application back in August, Air Canada is continuing to beat the smart phone drum, launching a free BlackBerry application for online check-in and flight information. More »
Work

16% Of Australians Use Smart Phones

12:00PM Angus Kidman | Once you’ve used a smart phone, it’s hard to imagine how you survived without one. But despite the undoubted convenience of access-anywhere Internet, documents and contacts, only one in six Australians currently uses a smart phone. More »
Fix

An Exhaustive Guide To Saving Your Smartphone’s Battery

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Modern phones come loaded with bright screens, fun games and apps, and connections for 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Not coincidentally, they’re constantly out of juice. Here’s some of the best collected wisdom about saving your web-connected phone’s battery life. More »
Work

BlackBerry Desktop Software Syncs Your BlackBerry With Macs, PCs

3:30AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac OS X: BlackBerry Desktop Software effortlessly syncs your BlackBerry with your Mac or PC, including music, contacts, and appointments. The Windows version isn’t new, but the app just hit OS X today. More »
Fix

DIY IKEA BlackBerry Stand

4:00PM Angus Kidman | Need somewhere to store your BlackBerry on those occasions when it isn’t welded to your hip? Try making a stand from, of all things, a wooden soap dish. More »
Money

iDumpit BlackBerry App Offers Mobile-Exclusive Bargains

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Every developer appears to clamour to build iPhone applications, but online clearance store iDumpit has taken a different route, building a BlackBerry-only client instead. More »
Work

Sprite Migrate Makes Changing Smartphones Simple

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you’ve got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything. More »
Work

Snaptu Packs Dozens Of Social And Information Apps Into A Phone-Friendly Platform

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Java-enabled phones: Hate the interface on your phone when it comes to wrangling social sites like Facebook and Twitter? Wish the layout gave the info you wanted like movie times and weather? Snaptu is a Java-based phone interface that does. More »
Communicate

Tiny Twitter Brings Twitter To Your Windows Mobile, Java-Enabled Phones

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows Mobile/Blackberry: If you have a data plan with your phone, Tiny Twitter will help you keep tabs on your friends and send out tweets without overage charges. More »
Communicate

BlackBerry Bold Now Has Next G Blue Tick

2:39PM Angus Kidman | Telstra has just doubled the number of smart phones able to be used reliably on Next G in rural areas with the announcement of a BlackBerry Bold software upgrade. More »