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Multiplied Media has partnered with TELUS to add a new Live Search Agent feature to the Poynt application. TELUS will provide live agents to assist Poynt users if a business listing they were searching comes back without any results. The TELUS feature gives the user the option to talk to an agent to find the listing and push the found results back into Poynt. Continue reading ‘Poynt Updated with TELUS Live Search Agent Feature’
Mr. Number is a mobile caller ID and contact backup app that just announced 250,000 registered users and a new version for BlackBerry devices that can identify telemarketers automatically. Mr Number will back up all of your numbers (including PINs) and you can move them to any supported phone if you lose or break your device. Continue reading ‘Mr Number Free Crowd-Sourced Caller ID App with 250,000 Users’
At a press event last night RIM announced App World 2.0 details that included much of what we expected such as carrier billing and pre-installs on new devices. App World 2.0 will launch with the following features and enhancements:
Supports OS 4.5 and above
4.4 and below to still support App World 1.1
App World 2.0 app is smaller than 1.1 (in KB). This is due to dropped 4.4 and below support as well as general optimizations
Improved image caching so there will be icons and apps when you load it up right away
New BBM-style menu hierarchy categories with a new themes section (the whole system is called top 25). The top menu items are: Recently Updated, New, Top Free, Top Paid, and Themes.
Kik let users know that they have updated their IM client (and soon to be music sharing service) to support iPhone, allowing for more cross-platform usage. The app also has an Android version on the way which will make the app even more ubiquitous. Kik for BlackBerry has also been updated with the following: Continue reading ‘Kik Updates with iPhone Support and Improved UI and Battery Usage’
EzBillMaker is a cool app that lets you send professionally formatted bills, quotes and expense reports to any email or fax. You can also include a link on the bill so that your customers can pay with a credit card. With the EzB website, you can track balances, payments and provide basic small business accounting. All of your records are conveniently stored in one place.
Features of EzBillMaker include:
Reduce time spent making bids and billing
Capture every billable event – maximize billing – bill calls from call log
Fax or email professional documents
Accept credit card payments in a secure environment
Send estimates from the job – follow ups are a snap using “call customer”
Send expense, mileage, call-log reports to your boss, a secretary or expense department.
Customer Website – provides reporting, secure back-up and restore and keeps records in one place – easy for you or a secretary to follow up on bills or sales quotes
