“We are excited to bring some of EA Mobile’s most popular franchises to the BlackBerry App World where BlackBerry customers can easily download them from one location,” said Adam Sussman, VP Worldwide Publishing for EA Mobile. “We look for the BlackBerry App World to become an important channel for EA Mobile, providing convenient access of our great games to BlackBerry customers everywhere.”

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Shazam identifies and provides information to the user about the track, artist and album from its ever-expanding music database; currently consisting of over 8 million tracks, including the largest collection of undiscovered music and pre-release tracks.

“We continue to see increasing demand for multimedia applications and services from our customers and we believe Shazam adds multidimensional value to the mobile music experience for BlackBerry smartphone users,” said Jeff McDowell, Vice President, Global Alliances at Research In Motion. “Shazam’s unique features are perfectly suited to the BlackBerry platform. We are very pleased to prominently feature this innovative application in BlackBerry App World.”

The lite version of Skype delivers core Skype capabilities to BlackBerry smartphones, including:

• Make Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world
• Send/receive instant messages to/from individuals or groups
• Make Skype calls at low rates to people on landline or mobile phones
• Receive calls to your online number on Skype
• See when your Skype contacts are online/available to chat

The lite version of Skype will be available to BlackBerry users worldwide. The ability to make calls will be available in 10 countries: Australia, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United States and the UK. English will be supported first, with additional languages to follow. Those who download the beta version will be able to provide feedback on the application via an online survey.

The beta of the lite version of Skype will be available as a free download to BlackBerry smartphone users beginning in May from www.skype.com/m using their BlackBerry® Browser.

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“We established an innovative and collaborative partnership with RIM to address a key desire of consumers to have greater mobile connectivity and interaction with their friends and the global community at large,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace. “This record shows just how much of a force in the mobile consumer space RIM and MySpace have become.”

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is fully optimized to deliver rich content and data to users on the go. MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones integrates MySpace’s primary social networking components with the BlackBerry platform to provide instant, push-based messaging to users. It is available for download at www.blackberry.com/myspace or m.myspace.com from your BlackBerry Browser.

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With the mobile business solutions offered by Cortado, users have access to their corporate network and flexible output options via their BlackBerry smartphones. The Cortado solutions are completed with the award winning mobile Office suite Documents To Go Premium Edition from DataViz. Documents To Go provides customers with the ability to view, edit and create native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and attachments directly on a BlackBerry smartphone. Other features include a native PDF viewer, PDF To Go, support for Microsoft Office 2007 files, password protected Word and Excel files, advanced track changes, InTact Technology for retaining 100% file formatting when editing files on the smartphone, spell check and other advanced editing features.

For more information, and to download a free 30 day trial (BlackBerry smartphone software 4.5 or higher is required), please visit: www.cortado.com/bundle

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is designed with features including:

• A full messaging interface, including comments, bulletins and messaging
• Real time status and mood updates.
• Find, add, and respond to friend requests
• Camera integration and optimized photo management allowing users to snap, sort and upload pictures anytime and anywhere.
• View and comment on friends’ albums and photos
• Notification of new MySpace events (message and friend requests.)

According to the faq, “If you currently log in to your MySpace account using an email address that is not associated with your BlackBerry smartphone, you will not have access to push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests. To enable push-based MySpace Mail and friend requests, add your MySpace login email address to your BlackBerry smartphone.”

RIM plans to launch the application storefront in March 2009 and BlackBerry application developers can begin submitting their applications and content for inclusion in the storefront in December 2008. The storefront will allow developers to set their own prices for applications and developers will retain 80 percent of the revenue generated from their applications. RIM is working with PayPal to provide consumers with a convenient and trusted way to pay for applications within the new application storefront, right from their BlackBerry smartphone.

RIM is also working with its carrier partners to provide carrier-customized, on-device application centers to help foster after-market application downloads. The BlackBerry application center will allow each carrier to offer a convenient catalog right on the device where a customer can discover and download applications.

Key features of the complete solution, which requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1.6 or higher, handsets running BlackBerry Device Software 4.1 or higher, and the new BlackBerry IM client for use with Office Communications Server 2007, include:

• One-to-one or multi-party instant messaging – Engage in one-to-one or multi-party instant messaging sessions from a BlackBerry smartphone. Users can also send instant messages with hyperlinks included that can initiate an email, phone call or launch a web page and can save conversations to the smartphone for archiving or sharing via email.
• New presence statuses – In addition to setting their presence status as Available, Busy, Do Not Disturb, Be Right Back, Away, or Offline, BlackBerry smartphone users can now create a customized notification about their location, such as “home” or “office”.
• Auto presence setting based on activity – View the presence of others automatically based on activity from their desktop computer, desk phone, and activities scheduled in their Microsoft Outlook calendar, which can show a more granular level of presence with notifications such as “Out of Office” and “In a Meeting”.
• Control access to presence and contact information – Users can control who sees their presence by setting their availability to individuals, teams, the entire company, and people outside the organization, or they can block the information outright.
• Click to communicate from contact list – From within the BlackBerry IM client, users can click on a contact in the contact list and select to initiate a phone call, email, MMS or SMS with the contact. Users can also initiate an instant messaging session with a contact from within the BlackBerry Address Book.
• Picture association in contact list – Users can associate a photo to each contact in their list.
• Determine presence of contacts from address book, receive alerts – View the presence information of a contact in the BlackBerry Address Book and receive an alert when a person becomes available.
• Usage controls for the enterprise – New IT settings and controls have been added to BlackBerry Enterprise Server allowing administrators to control access by individual users or groups as well as control specific functionality, such as the ability to save conversations.
• Market-leading security – Leverages the market-leading security and encryption of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution to help ensure that presence information and conversations remain protected and secure.
• Ease of deployment – The BlackBerry IM client can be easily deployed via side loading or over the air. IT administrators can also ‘push’ the application to users through BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
• Optimized for mobility – BlackBerry smartphone users benefit from the BlackBerry platform’s push-based architecture, supporting battery efficiency, network optimization and automatic delivery of instant messages, even while the application is running in the background.

Support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1.6 or higher, handsets running BlackBerry Device Software 4.1 or higher, and the new BlackBerry IM client for use with Office Communications Server 2007.

eOffice 4.5’s allows users to easily access and view Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF and graphics files in a rich media format that looks exactly like their desktop documents. Users also have editing capabilities for Word and Excel documents. eOffice 4.5 users can additionally fax or print their documents directly from their BlackBerry device, giving them control over their office files while they are on the road.

The software also includes support for Google Docs and Spreadsheets, enabling multiple users to collaborate on a project at the same time. The eOffice 4.5 solution is compatible with phones running BlackBerry 4.5 and pre-4.5 operating systems.

eOffice for BlackBerry is part of the suite of productivity solutions offered by Quickoffice. To purchase eOffice, please visit www.dynoplex.com.

via [lewiswire]