Our gwabbit ears have read you loud and clear! We are excited to announce the release of gwabbit for Outlook v.1.2, including new features you’ve been asking for.

The award-winning gwabbit for Microsoft Outlook and BlackBerry automatically finds, gwabs and adds contacts from your emails to your address book with a single mouse click!

• Filter domains - this feature lets you filter out emails from domains you pick, selectively disabling the gwabbit alert from popping up for spam, etc.

• Choose your save folder - now you can save contacts in any folder, not just the default

• 64-bit support - gwabbit now supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Outlook

• Improved internationalization - gwabbit now recognizes the “+” sign in phone numbers

• Cloud-enabled - gwabbit can now automatically handshake with our upcoming “gwab-o-sphere” contact cloud. The gwab-o-sphere will be the world’s first automatic contact cloud, enabling you to sync contacts with your key contact repositories, like Salesforce

• Better contact recognition - including suffixes, like Esq, CPA, and MD

• gwabbit contact indicator - lets you see which contacts were gwabbed by gwabbit. This is a new contact field that can be seen by selecting “All Fields” in a contact form.

• gwabbit Alerts - this optional feature lets colleagues and friends know when you’ve added their contact to your address book. More about gwabbit Alerts can be found here.

You can get the upgrade here, or from the gwabbit toolbar, click on Options, then Upgrade.

You should install the version that is compatible with your version of Office. If you do not yet have Office 2010, you should install the 32-bit version of the application. If you do have Office 2010, you need to determine whether you have the 64 or 32-bit version. Note that the 64-bit version is for users with Office 64-bit. Users on 64-bit Windows with 32-bit Office should use the 32-bit version of gwabbit.

In other words, the bitness needs to match the bitness of Office, not the bitness of Windows.

To determine the bitness of your Office 2010 installation, in Outlook 2010, click on File + Help. The bitness of the application is specified there, under “About Microsoft Outlook”. If you are running a 64-bit version of Office, you need to install the 64-bit version of gwabbit. Otherwise, install the 32-bit version of gwabbit.

We are very excited to provide these enhancements to you, and hope that this makes gwabbit even more useful as you use it to build your address book! Please continue to provide us with your feedback and enhancement requests, we want gwabbit to be the best productivity tool it can be. If you need assistance with your upgrade, or have any questions or comments, feel free to contact our support department at support@gwabbit.com.

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It’s been a year now since we first started sending our gwabbit alerts as part of our Free gwabbit for BlackBerry product. Obviously, we were all very curious to know how the alerts would be received. Frankly, the results have exceeded our expectations – we have information to share for the first time here.

First some stats:

Opt-outs – only .16% of all alert recipients opt out of the alerts. Based on this, combined with comments we’ve received, the vast majority of alert recipients (over 99.8%) like to know when a colleague or friend has added their contact information to their address book.

Complaints – less than 1/1000th of 1% of recipients have complained about the alerts – fewer than one in 100,000 recipients.

It’s true that when we started the alerts, we hoped that we would see a promotional benefit from this additional exposure. gwabbit is a small business that does not have the benefit of tens of millions in VC funding. We are growing our company organically, which means that we have needed to get creative about promoting our products.

And yes, it’s also true that we have seen a positive effect from the alerts. One percent of alert recipients download trial versions of gwabbit, and over a third of those purchase the product. We are indeed very appreciative of this. It’s challenging to grow a little company in today’s economic environment, and we can use all the help we can get.

In spite of the promotional aspect of the alerts, we do not believe that they would be either as successful or as popular if they were not viewed as being useful in some way. Most seem to find them useful. Remarkably, several Free gwabbit users have emailed to let us know that the reason they have not purchased the premium version is because it does not have an alert function.

Based on the response we’ve seen over the past year, we’ve made the decision to include the alerts as an option on our Premium gwabbit for Outlook product, as well as our free gwabbit for BlackBerry product. The difference between the products is simple: the alert function on gwabbit Outlook has an “off” switch – the free version of gwabbit for BlackBerry does not.

The Alert comes switched “Off.” I would like to ask you to turn it “On” and let your colleagues and friends know when you’ve added them to your address book – based on the response we’ve seen so far, most will be glad you did. Of course, all of us at gwabbit appreciate it too.

Please keep in mind that recipients can opt-out at any time. If they do, they will not receive another alert from gwabbit.

Thank you very much for using gwabbit — we greatly appreciate your support.

Todd Miller
Founder and CEO

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We’re gwowing like wabbits here at gwabbit world headquarters, and the head gwabbit has decided that it’s time to expand our vocabuwawy right along with the company.

Sewiouswy. This stuff is important.

That’s why we’re calling on our fellow gwabbits to help us come up with new words for our gwabbit dictionawy.

Do you have the gift of gwab? Share your favowite new gwabbit words and you could win a gwabbit coffee mug!

Contestants with the Top 2 new vocabuawy words (and definitions) will get a gwabbit mug, and the entries will become permanent additions to our dictionawy. Submit your ideas on Twitter (@gwabbit), FaceBook, gwabbitat (blog) or email: dictionawy@gwabbit.com. One winner will be selected by our gwabbit fans on Facebook. The other winner will be selected by Team gwabbit.

Here are some examples of the exotic gwabbit dialect:

gwabba dabba doo!
What Fred Flintstone said when Mr. Slate turned him on to gwabbit

gwabifer n.
What the celebrity paparazzi called gwabbit and Jennifer Anniston when the two were dating

gwisten v.
What snowflakes do while children listen, to sleigh bells in the snow

We’ll respond to the winners via the forum in which the entry was submitted, and will contact them for shipping information for the gwabbit mug. We will accept entries from anywhere, but the mugs can only be shipped within the 48 continental US states. If the winners hail from elsewhere, we will give a free gwabbit for Outlook license or 1 year free premium gwabbit for BlackBerry subscription. So come on, share your gift of gwab with us, and win a gwabbit mug! We are looking forward to all your gweat ideas!

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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!

Features Add new tag, BlackBerry, BlackBerry App World, contact capture, Contact management, Email Contact Management, gwabbit, gwabbit Flashback™

GWABBIT LAUNCHES CONTACT CAPTURE SOLUTION FOR BLACKBERRY ENTERPRISE SERVER AT WES 2010

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CES Mobile Apps Showdown Winner Poised to Support Enterprises with Automatic Email Contact Capture Solution

WES 2010, Orlando, FL and Carmel Valley, CA - April 26, 2010 - gwabbit®, LLC, the only provider of automated solutions for the contact cloud, today announced its latest contact capture product, gwabbit for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). gwabbit BES (TM) is the enterprise sequel to the award-winning gwabbit for BlackBerry(TM) launched in May 2009. gwabbit for BlackBerry automatically scans for contacts embedded in emails on your BlackBerry smartphone, and adds or updates that information to your BlackBerry Contacts in a single click. gwabbit BES enhances this capability by providing the security and IT administration tools required for serious enterprise applications. Demonstrations of gwabbit BES can be seen at WES 2010 in Orlando, Florida at Demo Pod # 917, April 26-29.

gwabbit BES places its recognition engine securely behind the enterprise firewall, securing information within the organization. gwabbit BES enables IT administration to easily distribute the gwabbit BlackBerry client using the BES Application push. All client settings, including server location are transferred to the client through the secured, IT admin controlled IT Policies of the BlackBerry platform.

“gwabbit BES is the first of a suite of products we’re introducing to support the enterprise space,” said Todd Miller, president and founder, gwabbit. “gwabbit BES provides IT managers the tools they need to efficiently install and manage this valuable contact management tool-all in a secure environment.”

About gwabbit, LLC

Founded in 2008, gwabbit is the only provider of applications designed to automatically feed and manage the contact cloud. Its flagship product, gwabbit, grabs contact information embedded in emails and automatically updates or creates new contact files. gwabbit has received numerous awards for its contact capture and management solutions, including DEMOgod 2009 & 2010, and winner of the CES Mobile Apps Showdown 2010. gwabbit for Outlook and gwabbit for BlackBerry are the fastest ways to manage contacts on a mobile device or desktop, saving time and boosting productivity. For more information or to purchase gwabbit, visit www.gwabbit.com

News BES, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, CES Mobil Apps Showdown Winner, contact capture, Enterprise, gwabbit for BlackBerry, Todd Miller, WES

Earlier this week, we reported that gwabbit is used in 60 countries around the world. Now make that 70 countries! Our unique two-stage recognition engine enables gwabbit to recognize contact blocks in virtually any language. Here’s the latest list of countries where you can find gwabbit users:

Antilles (St. Martin)
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bavaria
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
Egypt
France
Germany
Ghana
Great Britain
Greece
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Kuwait
Lebanon
Malaysia
Martinique
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
New Guinea
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
PRC
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
UAE
Uganda
UK
US
Venezuela
Vietnam

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Did you know gwabbit is used in 60 countries? Our unique two-stage recognition engine enables gwabbit to recognize contact blocks in virtually any language. Here’s a list of countries where you can find gwabbit users:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bavaria
Belgium
Bermuda
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Kuwait
Lebanon
Malaysia
Martinique
Mexico
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
PRC
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
St. Martin (Antilles Islands)
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
UAE
Uganda
UK
US
Vietnam

News contact capture, Contact management, Email Contact Management, gwabbit

2009 DEMOGOD WINNER GWABBIT DEBUTS WORLD’S FIRST AUTOMATIC CONTACT CLOUD AT DEMO SPRING 2010

gwab-o-sphere Automatically Syncs with Key Contact Repositories; Acts as a “Universal Remote Control” for all Your Contacts

DEMO Spring 2010, Palm Desert, CA – March 22, 2010 – gwabbit, LLC, the only provider of automated solutions for the contact cloud, today announced gwab-o-sphere™, the world’s first automatic contact cloud. Acting as a “universal remote control” for all your contacts, the gwab-o-sphere automatically receives contacts from gwabbit contact capture products, and then syncs with key contact repositories and social networks like Salesforce.com®, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The gwab-o-sphere automatically monitors contacts for changes, maintaining the most current and accurate source of contacts available. The gwab-o-sphere also offers the ability to mash-up its contact data with key communications service providers like FreeConference.com. The gwab-o-sphere can be seen at booth #36 during DEMO Spring 2010. gwabbit also announced today its partnership with FreeConference.com (See separate announcement titled, Gwabbit Teams With FreeConference.com).

The gwab-o-sphere contact cloud is the latest from 2009 DEMOgod winner gwabbit®, maker of award-winning gwabbit contact capture products for Outlook® and BlackBerry®, which automatically search and identify contacts embedded in emails and adds or updates that information to your address book.

“gwabbit wowed us at last year’s DEMO with its elegantly useful contact management solution,” said Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO. “With gwab-o-sphere, they are taking it to the next level with a cloud-powered contact management solution that allows users to keep all their contacts— wherever that information lives— updated automatically in real-time.”

A Universal Remote for Contact Management

Today the challenge of keeping your contacts updated and synced is compounded by the many devices, social networks and databases people use to store their contact information. The typical person can have their contacts stored on their smartphone, Outlook address book, CRM database and various social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Keeping this information current and in sync is an onerous and manual task that most people don’t bother with or do poorly.

This is where gwabbit contact capture products come in. Contacts grabbed by gwabbit for Outlook and BlackBerry are automatically added to the gwab-o-sphere, and then synced with contact repositories and social networks like Salesforce.com, Facebook, etc. The gwab-o-sphere then allows all the various contact repositories to “talk” to each other so contacts can be automatically added and updated, ensuring that they are always current no matter where the information lies.

“The gwab-o-sphere solves a nagging problem in contact management that no one has been able to answer until today,” said Todd Miller, president and founder, gwabbit. “How do you keep your contacts fresh, current and synced without tedious and time-consuming manual updates? The gwab-o-sphere is the only solution that does this all automatically so you don’t have to.”

Pricing and Availability

The gwab-o-sphere will be available in Q2 2010 free of charge to all gwabbit users, including gwabbit for Outlook and the Premium and free versions of gwabbit for BlackBerry, and can be downloaded from www.gwabbit.com or 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 gwabbit.com

About DEMO

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying cutting-edge technologies and helping entrepreneurs secure venture funding and establish critical business. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit demo.com.

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DEMO Spring 2010, Palm Desert, CA – March 22, 2010 – gwabbit®, LLC, the only provider of automated solutions for the contact cloud, today announced the integration of FreeConference.com® phone numbers to the gwab-o-sphere™, the world’s first automatic contact cloud (See separate announcement today titled, 2009 DEMOgod Winner Gwabbit Debuts World’s First Automatic Contact Cloud at DEMO Spring 2010). The gwab-o-sphere automatically loads contacts from its gwabbit contact capture products for Microsoft Outlook® and BlackBerry®, and syncs contacts with key repositories and social networks like Salesforce.com® and LinkedIn®.

In this partnership, FreeConference phone numbers that appear in gwab-o-sphere contacts will be automatically identified and highlighted with FreeConference’s icon and link to its website. As part of the partnership, instantconference.com and globalconference.com® numbers will also be highlighted.

“Partnering with an innovator like gwabbit is a value-add for our large customer base,” said Ken Ford, president and CEO, Global Conference Partners. “Our users will now have their critical conference numbers available on the gwab-o-sphere, ensuring that they always have the most current information when they need it.”

“With the gwab-o-sphere, users can automatically keep their contacts fresh, current and synced without having to do a thing,” said Todd Miller, president and founder, gwabbit. “And since we have the ability to mash-up contact data from premier communication service providers like FreeConference.com, we will continue to have the most robust information available in your contact cloud.”

The gwab-o-sphere contact cloud is the latest from 2009 DEMOgod winner gwabbit®, maker of award-winning gwabbit contact capture products for Outlook and BlackBerry, which automatically searches and identify contacts embedded in emails and adds or updates that information to your address book.

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 gwabbit.com

About FreeConference®

FreeConference originated the free teleconferencing concept with highly automated, enterprise quality conferencing services for businesses, organizations and individuals requiring top-tier performance at little or no cost. FreeConference continues to lead the industry with innovative value-added audio and web conferencing options that let users customize the conferencing features they need, just when they need them. FreeConference is a service of Global Conference Partners™. For more information, visit freeconference.com or globalconferencepartners.com.

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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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