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Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Beta Now Available
PUBLISHED: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Microsoft is launching Office 2010, and this includes a version for Windows phones. Like its predecessors, this suite of apps lets users edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The latest version has a new tools for sharing documents and ensuring they look as expected.

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Mark/Space Releases Beta of Desktop Sync Software for Android
PUBLISHED: 11/16/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Mark/Space has introduced a beta version of its desktop synchronization software for most smartphones running Google's operating system. This can sync contacts and transfer music and video between Android 1.x phones and a computer running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X.
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Microsoft's Smartphone Software Store Expands to Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.0
PUBLISHED: 11/16/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft's on-device app store for smartphones, was once available only for devices running the latest version of Windows Mobile, but support has now been extended to models running previous versions.
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Adobe Flash Player for Android, webOS Will Be Available in 2010
PUBLISHED: 11/14/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Adobe Systems has promised users of phones running Google's Android and Palm's webOS that they will get a browser plug-in with Flash support in the first half of next year. This software is also coming to many other mobile devices, with one notable exception.
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Windows Marketplace for Mobile Now Lets Consumers Shop on their PC
PUBLISHED: 11/12/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Microsoft's software shop debuted with the release of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices last month. Although it was created to be an on-device way to get apps, there is now a Web-based version for PCs, too.
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DataViz Documents To Go 2.0 for Android Review
PUBLISHED: 11/11/2009  BY: Magellan
DataViz Documents To Go 2.0 lets users of Android-based phones work view and edit Microsoft Office files. Mark Shryock brings us a review of this app that includes support for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as Adobe PDF files.
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Slacker Radio Now Available for Android
PUBLISHED: 11/9/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Google's Android is the latest mobile OS to get a version of the Slacker Radio app. This gives users of smartphones like the Motorola Droid and HTC Hero free access to one of the most popular streaming radio services.
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Nokia Learning Many Lessons from Ovi
PUBLISHED: 11/8/2009  BY: Antoine Wright
Nokia's Ovi platform has taken its share of knocks for poor service, implementation, and weakness as a competitor to the Apple iTunes platform. In a recent interview, one of this company's executives talks about the lessons learned, and plans for moving forward.
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Photoshop for Android Now Available
PUBLISHED: 11/7/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Adobe Systems has released a version of Photoshop.com Mobile for Android, giving users of smartphones running Google's OS some basic image-editing tools and photo-sharing capabilities.
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Palm Demos Graphical webOS Development Tool
PUBLISHED: 11/6/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Palm demonstrated an upcoming development tool for webOS apps yesterday. This graphical tool has been designed to simplify the process of making software for devices like the Palm Pre and Pixi.
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Verizon Doubling the Cost of Tethering the Droid
PUBLISHED: 11/6/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Verizon has promised that Motorola Droid users will be able to tether their smartphone at some point next year. This carrier has also revealed that it's going to ask customers to pay twice the regular price for this service.
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Photoshop Mobile for iPhone Enables Photo Editing on the Go
PUBLISHED: 11/5/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone debuted not too long ago, and quickly proved to be popular -- it was downloaded over 1 million times from Apple's App Store in the first week. This app allows users to edit their photos on their smartphone.
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Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the iPhone App Store
PUBLISHED: 11/4/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Apple has just announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store, the official source for iPhone and iPod touch software
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