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Just in time for the 2009 holiday gift giving season, FlightView announces the immediate availability of its real-time flight information application for BlackBerry Smartphones. The new software application for BlackBerry Smartphones helps users plan, monitor and make informed decisions about travel plans. Flight View brings together information that air travelers and their friends and family need, aggregating real-time flight data and current weather conditions into one simple view, allowing them to save and quickly revisit flights for updates. The BlackBerry Software application costs $4.99 and can be downloaded from BlackBerry App World.

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Nuance Communications announced the availability of its Dragon Search App on the App Store. The intuitive voice enabled search app for Apple iPhone handset gives users a smarter way to search. Dragon Search is an advanced form of Nuance’s world-renowned Dragon Naturally Speaking software, optimized to service millions of speakers’ simultaneous open-ended search queries, regardless of whether they are first-time or experienced voice application users. The app is currently free for a limited time.

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U.S. Bank has launched the Mobile Wallet, its new free downloadable mobile banking application that allows more convenient banking access on the go to its customers. The bank is collaborating with Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company, to provide the technology behind the Mobile Wallet. The Mobile Wallet allows U.S. Bank customers to check balances, review transaction history, transfer funds between accounts, check rewards balances and view special offers from U.S. Bank. The downloadable mobile banking application is optimized and certified for a variety of the most popular mobile devices, and U.S. Bank and Firethorn are adding new supported devices each week.

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The hands-free Apple iPhone experience is propelled to the next level thanks to Hearing Components’ Comply NR-10i Noise Reduction Earphones, now available at the official Apple Web site. Currently boasting a five-star rating the Apple UK site, the Comply NR-10i iphone earphones are a hit. As one consumer states, “I absolutely love these ear buds… They make my commute down Oxford Street enjoyable since I can actually hear my music or mobile conversations.” Designed with Apple iPhone users in mind, the Comply NR-10i earphones utilize the same patented Comply Foam Technology used by U.S. Army helicopter crews to offer amazing noise reduction, superior comfort and secure in-ear fit, providing clear conversations and music experiences.

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Research and Markets: “The Future of Mobile Retailing on the High Street”. The last 24 months has seen rapid change on the high street for mobile phone retailers, particularly in the United Kingdom. What had been a vigorous and vibrant independent sector is now looking diminished and under threat. In a bid to improve customer relationships and thereby increase sales, some network operators have trebled their retail presence in town centres, to the detriment of independent dealers and resellers. Mobile markets elsewhere in Europe, and in North America, are seeing their own changes in the retailing landscape, brought about by ever-increasing competition and the fight for market share.

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Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co Inc, will give the gift of additional holiday savings on a slew of mobile products aimed at satisfying wish lists. There are special savings on four hot Blackberry Smartphones, the AT&T Xenon and the groundbreaking Nokia Booklet 3G. With the popularity of smartphones soaring, Best Buy Mobile will offer tremendous savings on four AT&T Blackberry smartphones with new two-year activations. Customers looking to upgrade to a Smartphone are in luck with the AT&T Xenon. Effective December 12 and running through the holidays, the popular smartphone will be free with a 2 year activation at Best Buy Mobile.

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