If you would sum up all the things that this app brings to the Blackberry, then perhaps most businessmen and managers would be looking to have one on their Blackberry. Perhaps a dilemma that most business professionals face today is on how to make the right business moves and investments that are key towards being productive and of course making a profit.

With this new app called the ProTrak Mobile, this popular CRM application promises to put the business-minded people towards the right direction. ProTrak Mobile, the BlackBerry component that was developed by ProTrak exclusively for the ProTrak Advantage CRM system, features completely secure wireless access to the ProTrak database for searches, retrieval and updates to the central data store.

“BlackBerry is an essential tool for the investment management professional in today’s marketplace, said Simon Koziel, president of ProTrak. We are extremely pleased to be able to offer the absolutely best, tailored solution for our clients.” With ProTrak Mobile, users can:

• Conduct searches for investors, contacts, consultants, managers or funds
• View and create activity notes
• Create and assign follow-up tasks
• View and edit the ProTrak calendar
• Ensure full audit capability so compliance can see which updates were done from the Blackberry and by whom
• Have complete security based on ProTrak’s extensive user permissions matrix
• Easily send Call Reports to colleagues within the organization
• Assign contacts to mass mail lists while traveling

Well, today all business honchos need all the leads they can get. And this new app for Blackberry users is certainly something they can do with!

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Since we are in the age of touch screens, here is another one that can be put to good use. Microchip Technologies announces a new solution that will allow designers to quickly and easily develop capacitive touch user-interface applications using Microchip’s 8- and 16-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs).

The flexible, comprehensive kit includes two main boards—one populated with a PIC16F72X 8-bit MCU and the other with a PIC24F256GB110 16-bit MCU; four daughter boards for developing capacitive-touch keys, sliders and a matrix; a PICkit™ Serial Analyzer; an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI); and several code and schematic examples. The modular kit makes it easy for designers to try different keypad configurations, and experiment with touch-pad sizes and shapes using the mother boards.

The mTouch Capacitive Touch Evaluation Kit (part # DM183026) is available for $84.95.

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AT&T has a few campaigns running to increase the sale of cellphones, and now that Christmas is pretty close, the more they sell, the better.

One of those deals is a 2-for-1 offer, also known as buy 1 get 1 for free. The two handsets included in the deal are the following: Samsung Propel, and Pantech Matrix. Every good deal has a negative detail, and in this case it is translated to a mandatory 2-year contract, plus a $35 monthly package.

How does it work:

To take advantage of the offer, customers pay $129.99 for the first device and receive a $50 AT&T promotion card after mail-in rebate, bringing the total cost to $79.99(1). A two-year service agreement and up to a $35 monthly data or messaging package are required. To get one free, customers pay $49.99 and receive a $50 AT&T promotion card after mail-in rebate.

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In case you don’t remember, we talked about the Pantech Matrix at AT&T a couple of weeks ago back in Septemer, and the cellphone was officially launched today. It is already listed on the AT&T website with a price tag of $80 with rebate + service agreement, or $280 if you want a free phone.

Like previously mentioned, the Matrix cellphone has an interesting and unique detail - dual slide out keypads. It means there are 2 sliding keyboards, one is numeric while the other is QWERTY. In terms of multimedia, the Matrix can read MP3, MIDI, iMelody, MMF, WAV, SMAF, and AAC+ format files.

The battery on this Pantech cellphone can last 3 hours of talk time, which is below the average and should be improved in the next version. On stand-by mode it works up to 10 hours.

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The Pantech Matrix phone is schedule to arrive in the U.S. from AT&T soon. The handset a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard which should be heavily used by all those hardcore text and internet users. The phone also sports UMTS/HSDPA support, a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and Video Share support.

We obviously don’t have any pricing and availability yet but when the Matrix hits it will arrive in three colors, red, black and blue. Wonder why it’s called Matrix though.

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According to a report released by ABI Research, Nokia is ranked the top ranked Smartphone Vendor, based on the new Vendor Matrix released by the research company. The results are based on the most recent evaluation of worldwide smartphone vendors. Trailing the Finland-based company are Motorola and Research In Motion at second and third respectively.

With a market share of over 56% in 2006 in the global smartphone market, Nokia leads the pack, while according to analysts, Motorola, RIM and Sony Ericsson lag behind in implementation. The numbers are slightl different for North America, where Palm and RIM account for over 66% of the smartphone market thanks to the Treo and BlackBerry devices.

Rounding up the top 10 list of smartphone vendors:
1. Nokia
2. Motorola Inc
3. RIM
4. Sony Ericsson
5. Palm

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