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Office 2010 Mobile Available For Beta Download
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile 6.5: If you’re rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote and other documents. More »
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Opera Mobile 10 Beta Available With Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows Mobile/Symbian: Opera has released version 10 beta of their popular mobile browser. If you put a lot of miles on your mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10 has quite a few new features and tweaks worth the update. More »
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Windows Mobile Marketplace Now Open To 6.0, 6.1 Users
9:20AM Kevin Purdy | If you’ve got a Windows Mobile device running the 6.0 or 6.1 system, you can now grab any of the roughly 800 apps in the Windows Mobile Marketplace. More »
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4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
Optus Mobile Application Store Lets You Buy With Your Bill
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Australians get something of a raw deal with mobile phone app stores — Apple skips applications apparently at random, BlackBerry skipped Australia altogether — so Optus’ introduction of a dedicated mobile app store is good news, at least if you’re already an Optus customer. More »
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Google Latitude Adds Location History, Alerts
3:35AM Adam Pash | If you’ve been using Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you’re in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don’t love having your every step tracked — well, it’s kind of creepy. More »
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Flickr Opens An App Garden Full Of Photo Tools
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | There are a lot of mobile, desktop and helper apps tied to Flickr. The team at the photo sharing service decided to make those apps easier to find and install by opening a free “App Garden” to everyone. More »
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Remember The Milk For iPhone Gets Smart Add
2:05AM Kevin Purdy | Smart Add, the command-line-like task adding tool for users of to-do manager Remember the Milk, just got added to RTM’s iPhone client via an App Store update. Grab it if you prefer little text tricks to lengthy menu searches. [RTM Blog via jkOnTheRun]
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PicTranslator Uses Your iPhone Camera To Translate Languages
5:30AM Adam Pash | iPhone only: Whether you’ve found yourself in a foreign land or you just need a little help with a foreign-language menu, snap a pic with PicTranslator and let it translate for you on the fly. More »
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NFB Films Brings Hundreds Of Free Films To Your iPhone
5:00AM sarahrae | iPhone/iPod touch only: Need a little something enriching to pass the time on your non-driving commute? The National Film Board of Canada’s NFB Films iPhone application brings access to hundreds of free animated movies, documentaries and experimental films to your iPhone. More »
Travel
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 »
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 » 
