gwabbit is very happy to announce a free upgrade is now available for both the Premium and Free versions of gwabbit for BlackBerry. gwabbit now includes our exciting new “Flashback™” feature! Flashback assures you’ll never miss a contact by placing a note in your inbox — just look for the gwabbit!

gwabbit Flashback™
In this latest version of gwabbit, version 1.0.63, the Flashback™ feature works like this:

· If you close an email before gwabbing the contact and adding it to your address book, no worries! gwabbit adds an item to your inbox with the contact name. Just open it and you will see the familiar gwabbit alert — just click and save as usual.

· When you save contacts, you’ll find an item in your inbox, marked with the gwabbit wabbit. This keeps you informed of the contacts you added to your address book.

· In addition, you will see a gwabbit counter at the top of the screen showing the number of unopened/unsaved contacts detected by gwabbit, similar to the counter for unopened emails or SMS messages.

Availability:
· The new features of the customized item and the top counter are supported from OS 4.6 and up for non-Storm users, and from OS 4.7 and up for Storm users.
· BlackBerry users with OS 4.2.1 up to 4.5x, will not have access to the latest version with the customized item and the counter. The previous version of gwabbit, version 1.0.51, is still available to this group of users.

Don’t forget that the previous upgrade of gwabbit to version 1.0.51 included some great improvements based on customer requests, including
· improved parsing of postal addresses into the appropriate address fields for city, state and zip.
· suffixes (e.g., CPA, MD, Esq.) placed appropriately with the last name.
· capture of the “+” sign for international phone numbers.

Download:
You will get a notification on the gwabbit application via BlackBerry App World, with an asterisk that indicates when the upgrade is available for you to download from App World. Or, you can download the upgrade directly at: http://www.gwabbit.com/blackberry .

Are you ready to take advantage of this exciting new gwabbit feature at no additional cost? Come on, upgrade and Flashback™ with gwabbit, to keep your address book current, and your business moving forward!

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We are pleased to announce that gwabbit for BlackBerry has been upgraded, with some big improvements to our recognition engine! The new version, 1.0.51, is now available for both the Premium and Free versions of gwabbit for BlackBerry.

You will get a notification on the gwabbit application via BlackBerry App World, with an asterisk that indicates when the upgrade is available for you to download from App World. Or, you can download the upgrade directly at: http://www.gwabbit.com/blackberry .

Responding to your requests, we’ve improved gwabbit to allow for better parsing of U.S. postal addresses, better handling of suffixes, and improved capture of international phone numbers:

You asked for improved parsing of postal addresses into the appropriate address fields for city, state and zip. You got it!

You asked for suffixes (e.g., CPA, MD, Esq.) to be placed appropriately with the last name. You got it!

And you wanted gwabbit to capture the “+” sign for international phone numbers. You got it!

We at gwabbit truly appreciate the feedback from our customers, and we are happy to give you what you ask for. Please keep your feedback and suggestions coming — we’ll do our very best to deliver what you want!

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We are pleased to announce that gwabbit for BlackBerry has been upgraded, and includes some important improvements that we are sure you will be happy about! The primary benefits of the upgrade are:

• Improved auto-recognition
• Faster performance
• Improved handling of email signatures with HTML (for techies: the latest version is more forgiving of improperly formatted embedded HTML)

This is a free upgrade for customers of both the Premium and Free versions of the gwabbit for BlackBerry application. You can get the latest version, 1.0.46, via BlackBerry App World, or you can access using the following link on your BlackBerry device browser: http://www.gwabbit.com/blackberry .

The sooner you upgrade, the sooner you will enjoy the improvements!

As always, we appreciate and welcome your feedback. It helps us to bring you improved performance from the gwabbit application. Keep it coming, we’re listening and responding!

If you need any assistance with the upgrade, or just want to let us know what you think, contact gwabbit Customer Support at support@gwabbit.com.

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GWABBIT DEBUTS NEW FREE VERSION OF ITS AWARD-WINNING AUTOMATIC CONTACT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

New Release of Gwabbit for BlackBerry Smartphones Available Exclusively On BlackBerry App World

San Francisco, CA – Dec., 08, 2009 – gwabbit, LLC, the only provider of automated solutions for the contact cloud, today announced the availability of a free version of its highly popular contact management solution. Winner of numerous awards, including DEMOgod and Inc Magazine’s “Top Business Apps – 2009,” gwabbit automatically searches and identifies contacts embedded in emails on your BlackBerry® smartphone, and adds or updates that information to your BlackBerry® Contacts, in a single click.

The free version of gwabbit includes a new alerting feature that informs contacts via email when their contact information has been added to a friend or colleague’s address book using gwabbit. This service is invaluable, particularly for sales and business development.

“The fact that gwabbit for BlackBerry has been the #1 paid productivity application on BlackBerry App World for 12 consecutive weeks is a tremendous validation of the value we are bringing to mobile users,” said Todd Miller, founder and president of gwabbit. “In these cost-conscious times, a free version of gwabbit is the perfect solution for users who are looking to leverage free software.”

The free version of gwabbit joins both the Premium version of gwabbit for BlackBerry smartphones and gwabbit for Outlook, as an automatic email contact management solution for both desktops and mobile phones. The original Premium version of gwabbit will remain available for all BlackBerry smartphones for only $9.99 annually. gwabbit for Outlook is available for a one-time fee of $19.95. These products together deliver complete email contact management for any professional on the road or at their desk.

Pricing and Availability
The free version of gwabbit is available for all BlackBerry smartphones, and can be downloaded on BlackBerry App World™ (www.blackberry.com/appworld)

About Gwabbit, LLC
Founded in 2008 gwabbit (formerly Technicopia, LLC) is the only provider of applications designed to manage the contact cloud. Its flagship product gwabbit, grabs contact information embedded in emails and automatically updates or creates new contact files. Recipient of the DEMO 09 DEMOgod awards, gwabbit for Outlook and gwabbit for BlackBerry are the fastest ways to manage contacts on a mobile device or desktop. Whether you are on the road or at the desk, gwabbit delivers Email Contact Management (ECM) solutions at a price point you can afford. For more information or to purchase gwabbit, visit www.gwabbit.com

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The gwabbit recognition engine has been upgraded, and realizes many improvements based on the feedback and issues reported by our customers. We truly appreciate and welcome your feedback – it helps us bring you enhanced performance in a better, stwonger gwabbit!We’re listening and responding.

Both our gwabbit for Outlook and gwabbit for BlackBerry now incorporate our latest version 2.0 recognition engine. The following is a list of items that have been addressed in this latest upgrade:

• The engine now correctly handles the text added by anti-virus programs such as AVG
• The Improve Results feature (gwabbit for Outlook) is greatly improved, now recognizing a much higher percentage of contact blocks
• Better recognition of non-US phone numbers and non-US addresses
• Better recognition and parsing of HTML emails, taking into account the formatting of the signature block, including stylized text
• Improved handling for new varieties of signature structures, based on the feedback submitted
• Better separation of the “thread” (older email in the same conversation) so as to more accurately identify contact information of the sender. This improvement is especially noticeable in gwabbit for BlackBerry
• Overall improved recognition

We at gwabbit thank you very much for your input and feedback. Please keep it coming! We’ll keep making gwabbit better!

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Merzbach Law

Merzbach Law has always prided itself on being “business lawyers with an uncommon amount of business sense.” Based in Rochester, New York, Merzbach Law specializes in corporate law with a focus on a sensible, problem solving approach that aligns closely with clients’ business goals and objectives. Founded by Ralph Merzbach in 1998, the firm’s strategic goal continues to be to cover the legal territory that is of core interest to businesses and their owners, and to institutionalize skills, work habits and methods that support businesslike approaches to business law projects.

The challenge

In many businesses, contacts are king. The legal profession is no exception. Ironically, law offices have traditionally housed critical case information and contacts in archaic filing systems requiring searches through files every time information was needed on a client—with no guarantee that the information was the most current. The challenge of keeping information up-to-date can be compounded by multiple lawyers and administrative assistants “touching” the data at various points.

Having previously worked for a large law firm for twenty years, Ralph knew right from the beginning that he didn’t want a 19^th century law office for the 21^st century. Ralph didn’t want to have information for contacts, billing, case information, etc. entered separately into disparate database systems. Instead, he wanted to create a centralized database to house all client and case information to ensure that critical information was easily available and up to date. His firm adopted a networked practice management database, Amicus Attorney that synchronizes with MS Outlook contacts to serve this purpose. Still, this left firm personnel with the onerous task of entering vast amounts of contact data, and required them to manually update revised contact information.

The solution

Enter gwabbit. gwabbit streamlines the management of new relationships and the updating of existing ones, allowing users to efficiently maintain a centralized current address book without the time-consuming chore of cutting and pasting. The email contact management solution automatically scans incoming Outlook emails, finds new or updated contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within the address book.

Ralph felt that gwabbit provided the functionality that he needed to streamline the data flow process at his firm. Acting as a gateway to the law firm’s networked practice management database, Amicus Attorney, gwabbit is often the first point of entry for Ralph’s new contacts. “With any new client, opposing counsel or other contacts, I ask them to send me an email. gwabbit then grabs the new client’s person’s contact information and automatically adds it to my address book. From there, the new information flows into my other databases for case information, billing, etc. Without losing billable time with administrative work or billing clients for menial tasks, we’ve added and updated all of our databases—effortlessly,” says Ralph.

Beyond initiating new contacts, gwabbit is invaluable in keeping all Ralph’s contact information up to date. “I love that gwabbit is always looking for updated information. In my business, contact updates can be critical to the legal services we provide. For instance, we might have a client that requires we use his personal email instead of professional email due to a pending case against a client’s company. With gwabbit, we’re able to update that information quickly across all of out networked databases. Beyond the time savings, it gives me peace of mind that we are always working with the most current information.”

“Our motto at Merzbach Law has always been ‘enter it once, enter it right, and keep it updated in one place’,” Ralph adds. “That’s the only way to run a business with so much critical data. gwabbit has allowed us to make good on that vision.”

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gwabbit Ranks Number One Paid App on BlackBerry App World

Automatic Email Contact Manager Tops the List in ‘Professional and Business’ Category for 4th Straight Week

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ — gwabbit, LLC, the only provider of automatic email contact management (ECM) solutions for the contact cloud today announced that gwabbit for BlackBerry is the number one paid application on BlackBerry App World’s “Professional and Business” category. For the fourth week straight, gwabbit for BlackBerry has received top ranking among other well known apps like SalesForce Mobile, ZDNet and BNet. gwabbit automatically searches and identifies contacts embedded in emails on your BlackBerry smartphone, and adds or updates that information to your BlackBerry Contacts, in a single click. For those users syncing their contacts to Outlook, gwabbit’s automated capture keeps contacts updated globally.

“Serious business professionals are finding that gwabbit gives them a decisive competitive edge,” said Todd Miller, president and founder of gwabbit. “Since launching on BlackBerry App World, the response from BlackBerry users has been overwhelmingly positive. We’re very pleased that BlackBerry users are embracing gwabbit’s simple and elegant way of helping users collect and organize their contacts.”

gwabbit for BlackBerry smartphones joins the award-winning gwabbit for Outlook, as an automatic email contact management solution for both desktops and mobile phones. gwabbit for Outlook automatically identifies signatures in incoming emails and creates them as new or updated contacts in your address book. gwabbit for Outlook is available for a one-time fee of $19.95. The two products together deliver complete email contact management for any professional on the road or at their desk.

Pricing and Availability

gwabbit downloads in less than a minute on BlackBerry smartphones and is available for only $9.99 annually on BlackBerry App World (www.blackberry.com/appworld), and online at www.gwabbit.com. gwabbit is available for all BlackBerry smartphones including the BlackBerry(R) Bold(TM), BlackBerry(R) Storm(TM), BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) series and BlackBerry(R) Pearl(TM) series of smartphones.

About gwabbit, LLC

Founded in 2008 gwabbit (formerly Technicopia, LLC) is the only provider of applications designed to manage the contact cloud. Its flagship product gwabbit grabs contact information embedded in emails and automatically updates or creates new contact files. Recipient of the DEMO 09 DEMOgod awards, gwabbit for Outlook and gwabbit for BlackBerry are the fastest ways to manage contacts on a mobile device or desktop. Whether you are on the road or at the desk, gwabbit delivers Email Contact Management (ECM) solutions at a price point you can afford. For more information or to purchase gwabbit, visit www.gwabbit.com.

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