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The discussion about the Super Apps increasingly strong made by RIM in the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, some time ago.

Super Apps is an application for BlackBerry devices more integrated with the existing capabilities of the device. This includes integration with Inbox, Calendar and other applications. Examples of this application is an application that allows Twitter tweet like Inbox sent via email, without having to open the Twitter application.

Some of the charateristics that take an app to the level of super app are as follows:

•The Always on Experience
•Tight Integration with the Native BlackBerry Apps
•Proactive and Notification-driven
•Highly Contextualized
•Social and Connected
•Designed for Efficiency

Here is video thought process behind building a BlackBerry Super App using new Twitter App as an Example:

The development process behind twitter for BlackBerry

Google Buzz has made a great impact on the social networking sphere within few days after its official launch. Most of the twitter and Facebook users have started using the Google Buzz even without leaving their existing Twitter, Facebook social activities.

Instead of switching between different tabs/windows to make your presence in Twitter, Facebook and Buzz, it would be better to have everything in one place.

There is a simple and easy to try method for integrating the Twitter and Facebook with Buzz in GMail using the GMail gadgets.

For facebook: add the below link in gadgets tab section,

“http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml”

and for Twitter: add the following gadget link in gadget tab section,

“https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml”

Don’t worry if you couldnt find the Gadgets tab in the GMail settings section, you need to enable it in GMail Labs tab.

Happy Buzzing!!!!

 
The 2010 Winter Olympics officially kicked off in Vancouver yesterday. You can keep yourself up-to-date with the latest Olympics news on your iPhone with these iPhone apps.You’ll find some of them useful if you’re in Vancouver to watch the games live.

CTVOlympics.ca

This is the official iPhone app for the Vancouver Winter Olympics that gives you complete coverage of all the breaking news and medal updates along with a comprehensive TV schedule. For those of you who cannot catch the action on TV, the app also gives you a play-by-play feed for all the events. However, for push notifications for medals and breaking news, you need to upgrade to the premium version for $1.99.

Check Here!

The Official Mobile Spectator Guide

This is a useful iPhone app if you are in Vancouver and plan to watch the events live. The iPhone app tracks your location to update you of events happening in your proximity. You can also use the app’s GPS based turn-by-turn navigation system to reach the venue location of your choice. Best of all, it’s free.

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SportLogik

This is an iPhone application that will be of great use to those of you who are new to the winter games arena. The iPhone app contains a list of rules, glossary of terms, equipments and a database of records for all the Olympic sporting events. A very handy iPhone app if you want to learn more about the foul that the commentator was just referring to. As you might expect, this iPhone app is free as well.

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Cowbell 2010

This is a fun iPhone app that lets you ring the traditional alpine cowbells draped in a national flag to cheer for your favorite team. But besides this, the iPhone app also offers a better way to organize the events schedule by letting you create your own favorites folder. Also, follow what all the participating athletes have to say by following their Twitter feeds from one place. The iPhone app costs $0.99.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

This is an interesting iPhone app for those of you who are in Vancouver for the games. The iPhone app is a great guide to take you through all the venues hosting the Winter Olympics. While there, the iPhone app also gives you an overview of the local attractions and restaurants where you can try the best of local cuisine. The iPhone app is available for $2.99 on the App Store.

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 We are excited to introduce you to the first version of Twitter® for BlackBerry® smartphones today. We’re launching Twitter for Blackberry smartphones in a limited preview through invite codes. If you didn’t receive a download code, DON’T WORRY! Head to www.blackberry.com/twitter and sign up to receive notification when Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones is available to all via open public beta later this year. To hold you over until that happens, We have put together this application preview of Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones.

 Integrating with the BlackBerry Platform

The Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones application has been designed to take advantage of the BlackBerry platform to create a user experience that will be familiar to both Twitter and BlackBerry smartphone users. Some of the areas that we have focused on are:

• Push technology and Message List integration to notify you of your direct messages as soon as they arrive.
• Send/Share BlackBerry menu integration along with bit.ly URL shortening so that you can share your favorite BlackBerry App World™ applications, interesting websites or a random picture from your camera with your Twitter followers.

It has been seen from tweets that various people are being forced to change their passwords on Twitter in response to possible phishing threats.

The message from twitter itself says:

“Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset.”

There have been a number of cases where phishers have targeted user accounts via DM sending them to a spoof login page that grabs passwords and then uses your account to propagate the phishing messages to more users.

In this case, it appears Twitter itself wants to be one step ahead of potential phishers and is asking people that it believes may have been a target to change their passwords immediately.

The screenshot below shows that it’s possible,that they may have gained access to users via NutshellMail, a service that lets you access and reply to Twitter messages as you would email.

Here is the screenshot:

Nintendo has just confirmed that they are working on the successor to the DS
new handheld will feature “highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing”. Is this the NVIDIA Tegra Tech powered DS rumored the past couple of months or is it something else entirely?
With Apple still not having a decent handheld platform for games and Sony PSP still struggling behind the DS in sales, Nintendo should be thinking widescreen gaming plus disc based games plus a robust storage system that supports downloadable games minus the friend code.

More features often requires more power and often mean more space within a case. Hoping that Nintendo’s engineer have already figured out a solution to those problems.

To compete with his competator Microsoft inovate MSN, By adding Twitter and Facebook. The comperison of main old and updated features of MSN.com are :

Old Features:

Heavy blue blackground
 Stack tiny text
 Menue across the top of the page
 Menue defiend msn.com for decade

New Features:

 Clean white background
 Colourful links news, entertainment, sports, money, lifestyle
 Slide show top five stories with headlies and photos
 
According to MSN executive producer Scott Moore, the site main gole is to increase Bing search share. Bing wich is launched in june, remains in third in search engine after google and yahoo Inc.

The redesigning of MSN shows Microsoft’s growing intrest in the popularity of sites, reather than trying to compete.
The main and for most featuer whic attrates me is that we are login on three different networks at one page. We receiv friends up dates from three different networks at one place.
This invention in msn.com rolling out large numbers of peoples from US our throught out the world. We wish for great success for msn.com .

Twitter has launched a set of new change on the “Following” and “Followers” sections of its website. These changes make it easier to manage who you fallow as well as take quick actions, such as instant replying someone or direct messaging them, directly from the page. It make possible for user to take quick and instant action without the reputation of page.

Twitter add two new views for looking at these areas. Compact “List” of the followers and “Expanded” offers to view more details about the user’s last tweet, their real name and location. On the Followers page, there is also a button that allows for one-click following of users who already follow you.

The interesting thing about these icons is that they exactly appear look like icons of Apple user of OS X — including some of the ones on the iPhone. Could this mean that we’re about to see a revamped mobile version of the Twitter site? Who knows, but it could sure use an overhaul.