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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Award-Winning Automatic Contact Management Solution Wins With Most Online Votes

San Francisco, CA – January 12, 2010 – gwabbit, LLC, the only provider of automatic email contact management (ECM) solutions for the contact cloud, today announced that it has been named winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown, one of the most fiercely competitive contests at CES. Thousands of consumers and tech enthusiasts voted online and ultimately selected gwabbit as their favorite mobile application.

“We are very honored and excited that gwabbit has been selected as winner of the CES Mobile Apps Showdown,” said Todd Miller, president and founder, gwabbit. “This is particularly special, in view of the remarkable apps chosen as finalists in this year’s competition. We are very appreciative of our fans for making this happen.”

The Mobile Apps Showdown featured the top 10 mobile finalists in five categories: Education, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Productivity and IT. The NetShelter participating partner publishers who helped select the winners for Mobile Apps Showdown include PocketNow.com, PreCentral.net, PinkStack.com, Windows Phone Thoughts, SprintUsers.com, CrackBerry.com, NokiaExperts.com, TheiPhoneBlog.com and IntoMobile.com.

About gwabbit, LLC Founded in 2008 gwabbit (formerly Technicopia, LLC) is the only provider of applications designed to automatically feed 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 capture and 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 that boost productivity and increase your competitive edge. For more information or to purchase gwabbit, visit www.gwabbit.com.

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