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Today Adobe announced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices such as smartphones, netbooks, etc. This is a pretty big deal since it can unlock a host of programs and games right on your mobile browser. Expect a public developer beta for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS later this year. The public betas for Android and Symbian OS should be available in early 2010.

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All you Apple fans will be happy to know that the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac is now officially live. Sync your iTunes music as well as your contacts and appointments; easily backup, restore, and add/remove applications, all on your beloved Mac.

So what’re waiting feo? Grab it here.

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RIM and Tivo announced the availability of the Tivo app for BlackBerry devices. Yeah, you probably perked up and exclaimed, “Wow!” but the app only allows you to view the program guide and schedule shows to be recorded. Sorry to be a downer but like most of you I was expecting to watch my shows on the BlackBerry itself. Eh, perhaps in the next version.

You can now download the app through BlackBerry App World.

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Great news all you Palm Pre owners, Palm just announced the WebOS 1.2 update, which includes new features and enhancements. Here’s the lowdown:

• Improved Palm Synergy, now includes LinkedIn contact syncing
• Support for hetergeneous EAS policies
• Ability to filter emails in the current folder by typing a search term
• Ability to download files in the browser
• Amazon MP3 Store can now download songs from either WiFi or WAN
• Tap a phone number in calendar note to dial it
• Pause a podcast and, by default, you’ll pick up where you left off when you unpause
• Web pages and emails are now cut-and-paste-able

The webOS 1.2 update should be available as an automatic over-the-air update within the next few days.

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Navigon announced live, real-time traffic capability for its MobileNavigator for iPhone, available in October for North America. What’s cool is that it uses real-time speed data from drivers on the road as well as more conventional methods (traffic cameras, radio network, etc) to provide highly accurate traffic conditions.

The Navigon Live Traffic iPhone app will be available in October for $24.99 ($19.99 for the first four weeks).

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Opera announced their latest browser for mobile phones, the Opera Mini 5 browser. Although still in beta, the new browser boasts improvements including a user interface revamp, Speed Dial bookmarks and tabbed browsing. New features include:

• Tabbed browsing - Allow users to browser several sites simultaneously.
• Touchscreen or keypad browsing
• Password manager
• Speed Dial

Download the beta version here.

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Google announced the availability of their Android 1.6 “Donut” SDK to developers. So what’s new in this version? Quite a lot, actually. Check it out:

• New version of Android Market
• Re-worked search function with the ability to search browser bookmarks, history, contacts, and the web from desktop
• Redesigned camera, video recorder, and gallery applications (with an emphasis on speed)
• Revised VPN menu page
• Improved CDMA support
• Increased support for screen resolutions
• More telephony and gesture APIs
• Text to speech engine

Look for this release as early as October.

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Today Apple announced the availability of their iPhone OS 3.1 update. The update is free to all OS 3.0-enabled iPhones/iPods and includes the following highlight features:

• Genius recommendations for Apps - Get recommendations for apps you might like based on apps you’ve already downloaded
• Genius Mixes - Have iTunes create up to 12 playlists based on what’s already in your library. You don’t even have to choose a sample song
• Download ringtones wirelessly - Choose from thousands of iPhone ringtones on the iTunes Store and buy them with a tap
• Organize Apps in iTunes - Use iTunes on your computer to drag apps onto virtual Home screens, then sync them to your iPhone

But that’s not all, folks. The update also includes the following features/updates:

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Looks like the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac has been leaked, much to the applause of BlackBerry Mac users. Finally, some love for all you Mac fanatics, but expect bugs, glitches, and such since it’s only 1.0.0 beta. Click the link below for download links.

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Samsung’s Dong-hoon chan, head of mobile device design, confirmed they will be developing their own mobile OS based on the open source Linux OS. Up until now they’ve been using the proprietary Touchwiz interface built on top of mobile OS’s such as Windows Mobile. Could be a smart move by Samsung since Linux has a large, almost fanatical user base that’ll be all too willing to develop cool apps/games…

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