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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users can download one of many apps that will scan not only QR codes, but many types of bar codes. If you have BlackBerry Messenger 5.0,

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter Apps for Android and Blackberry are also available. Facebook has a mobile site ( m.facebook.com ), a touch site ( touch.facebook.com ), and Apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Sidekick and many more. TextPlus allows you to easily send group texts to your smartphone contacts. Foursquare.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We recognized the need for a messaging and voice application centered around the mobile experience and the phone book as your “social graph” or “contact list” We wanted something that would be “super easy to use” It would be the app you love and your grandpa can use without your help. The usual suspects.

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iPhone owners: Anyone solved the multi-Mac dilemma?

Judi Sohn

This is something I still miss about the BlackBerry. I’ll meet folks on my trip, enter their contact info into my phone and have no way of transferring that info to my laptop until I get home. 10 reasons I still love my Blackberry even though it isn’t an iPhone So if rumors are to be believed, the Blackberry 9000.

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The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched

The Verge

Blackberry Playbook. The BlackBerry PlayBook would have been an excellent place to close the book on BlackBerry’s chapter in the world of smartphones. Gone were the iconic physical keyboard and the email, calendar, and contacts applications — the main business-focused features on which BlackBerry had built its empire.

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Why I'm not interested in an Android phone. Yet.

Judi Sohn

Considering how much I love Google Voice (just wish there was a way to use it with two different Google Voice numbers and the same cell phone), and that all my email, contacts and calendar entries run through Google servers, you would think I'd be one of the first to jump on Android. Not so fast. Leave a comment »

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Apps for Disaster Planning

Tech Soup

FEMA App (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) contains disaster safety tips, interactive lists for storing your emergency kit and emergency meeting location information, and a map with open local shelters and open FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers. Got a personal favorite disaster preparedness app? Let us know in the comments!