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LinkedIn Releases Mobile App for BlackBerry Devices

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LinkedIn expands it services further with the release of  its new mobile applications for all BlackBerry  devices including Tour, Curve and Bold models running OS v4.3 or later. The new LinkedIn for BlackBerry is a handy application that will be most useful for looking up professionals worldwide, in real-time.

The LinkedIn for BlackBerry gives you a full, rich feature set designed to bring the most useful features of LinkedIn to your BlackBerry devices. It has six modules:

  • Network Updates – for viewing and sharing crucial business intelligence and updates.
  • Search – for searching across 60 million global professionals, and get the answer back in seconds through a  unified search across both your direct connections and the entire LinkedIn network.
  • Connections – for getting  quick access to any of your connections to get their up-to-date profile information, and the ability to send them a message immediately.
  • Invitations – for accepting outstanding invitations immediately.
  • Messages – for integrated access to BBM and LinkedIn messages.
  • Reconnect – for bringing suggestions for new connections.

Of course, it’s major purpose is for quickly viewing LinkedIn profiles right on your BlackBerry devices, anytime, anywhere.  In the business setting, you can get an upper hand during board meetings  if you know some personal details about the people you will be negotiating with, prior to the meeting proper.

LinkedIn for BlackBerry is available now as a free download here. It will soon be available in the BlackBerryApp World as well.

Google Mobile App for BlackBerry Gets Email and Contacts Search Feature

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If you’re a BlackBerry user, you might be glad to know that Google is pushing out a new search facility that will let you find email and contact numbers on your BlackBerry devices. The new search feature allows you to just type in or speak the name of  your contact and Google Mobile app will search through your device to find the email or contact number. It’s a pretty useful application especially if you have amassed quite a number of emails and scrolling through each one of them is already a painful task.

Even better is the fact that you can reply to the email or forward it as soon from the search results that will be displayed by the Google Mobile App. The new feature also allows you to quickly call a contact or send an email or SMS just by typing the first few letters of your contact’s first or last name. The app will also suggest contacts as you type as well as present your most frequently contacted person on top of the suggestion list.

If you don’t want this feature, you can still download the app and just turn off Phone Search from the options screen. The new Google Mobile App search feature requires BlackBerry OS version 4.5 or higher.

To download the app, simply point your BlackBerry’s mobile web browser to m.google.com.