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Welcome to the second of our app showcase lists, in which I’m highlighting some of the finest apps currently available for each of the various mobile platforms. After yesterday’s Android focus, tonight I’m looking at Blackberry Apps, which by and large tend to generate slightly fewer headlines than those of their iPhone and Android counterparts (perhaps understandably so – Google and Apple are pretty much the biggest tech players in town).

Nonetheless, there is of course plenty of cracking apps out there on the Blackberry platform and, with it still being summer in the UK (technically at least, if not actually weather-wise), what better theme than a focus on handy holiday travel apps? Without further ado, here’s my top 7 Blackberry…

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With Android’s market share having risen to almost 15% over the past year, there are now thousands of apps available for the platform – many of which can be extremely useful over the course of a typical working day. Having recently written about the respective value-for-money offered by the different mobile OS platforms’ app markets, I thought it would be logical to follow this up with a sort of app showcase feature, ‘zooming in’ on exactly what some of the better apps out there can do.

So, this is basically the first of a series of such compilation lists, each of which will have a different OS platform and theme. This inaugural post will focus on Android and work-related apps for…

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There’s been a few interesting developments and further discussions on some of the topics we’ve been covering recently, as well as the odd bizarre web-related story in the past few days, all of which I’ve decided to compile into this bumper miscellaneous post. It might be somewhat of a scrambled mish-mash of incongruent pieces – or a perfectly digestible round-up of key opinion and news from the past few days: I’ll let you be the judge…

First up, it’s worth mentioning that the massive gaming expo that is/was Gamescom 2010 went off this weekend with excellent attendance figures, leaving the blogosphere buzzing with anticipation about some of this autumn’s forthcoming titles. By the looks of it, the last quarter of the…

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The gang over at Techcrunch have been covering Facebook places pretty well since its launch yesterday and have, amongst other things, produced a very useful clarification of exactly how participation in the feature will work – since it’s not simply a case of you’re completely out until you choose to opt-in. Turns out that there’s actually three levels of engagement with the app – one for those who’ve opted in, one for those who’ve explicitly opted out, and a third for the majority who have not given FB any instructions on Places whatsoever.

For more detail, see the aforementioned TC blog, with results of their trial experiment of Places. The general gist however is that, unless you explicitly opt-out of Places,…

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So, once more the biggest global annual Gaming expo, Gamescom, is underway in Cologne, Germany (yes, indeed it is even bigger than both E3 and the Tokyo Games Show – which both have a longer history). Anyway for Europeans, those two long established events are unfortunately somewhat distant, geographically-speaking, and so when Gamescom comes around, there is understandably a genuine excitement from gamers in this part of the world (especially those lucky enough to live in Cologne, and have the event right on their doorstep).

With 505 exhibitors from all around the world, over 200 premieres, and the promise of enjoying ‘the city of Cologne as an interactive playground’ it’s no wonder that gamers from all round Europe are hopping onto…

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