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Xobni (that’s inbox spelled backwards), a company that makes an e-mail management plugin for Microsoft Outlook, is officially releasing Xobni Mobile for the BlackBerry platform today, bringing the power of Xobni to your mobile device.

Xobni is a killer tool for anyone who deals with tons of e-mail, because it makes finding messages and attachments, getting widespread contact information about a person and even searching through multiple PST databases easy. Plus, it integrates with social media tools like Facebook and Twitter.

Think of Xobni as kind of a cross between something like what Apple’s Spotlight search, Google’s contact tools and a synchronized address book like Plaxo. Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry is designed to make it possible to access all of your most important contact info — irrespective of whether or not a person is in your BlackBerry Address Book — directly from your phone.

Outlook users who use Xobni Mobile can also link the tool with a new service that Xobni is launching called Xobni One, which means that from the app — which has been integrated deeply into the core BlackBerry OS — you can get the contact information for every person you’ve ever communicated with in Outlook on your device. So if you’ve ever sent, received or been CC’d alongside another person, you can find and have access to their contact info — without having to have them in your address book.

Because you can store lots of social information alongside e-mail info within Xobni’s contact system, that information is also available in the BlackBerry app. The app also offers one-click access to Facebook and LinkedIn profiles and photos. You can also track back through SMS, phone calls and shared appointments with users on your phone, plus send your availability to a group of people that you choose.

If you don’t use Outlook — say you use Gmail — you can still use Xobni Mobile on the BlackBerry, but without Xobni One. You won’t get the historical information like Outlook usres do, but it will index the e-mail on your BlackBerry device from the time you install the app, which means that you can still take advantage of the algorithmically optimized stuff that makes Xobni super cool.

Check out this overview of Xobni and demo of Xobni Mobile from CES 2010:

Xobni Mobile is available today from Xobni.com/mobile and will soon be in the BlackBerry App World. Xobni Mobile as a stand-alone app is $9.99. If you want to use Xobni alongside Xobni One for Outlook, it’s $6.99 plus a recurring fee of $3.99 per month. You can also get a year of Xobni Mobile and Xobni One for $39.90 a year.

Xobni Mobile works on the Blackberry Tour, the Curve 8900, the BlackBerry Bold and the Storm and Storm II phones.

What’s your favorite contact management tool for the BlackBerry?

Tags: blackberry, Outlook, xobni, xobni mobile

Performance monitoring service Gomez has released its annual list of major websites with the best overall responsiveness as measured by Gomez over the entire year 2009. Surprise winner: IRS.gov, a site that uses images sparingly and pushes off large documents to PDF format for downloading, rather than trying to serve them as Web pages.

Gomez spokesman Frank Cioffi says the Lexington, Massachusetts consulting firm, which was acquired by Compuware last year, has learned an important stat over the past year. “It used to be that you had eight seconds to engage your customer before they hit the back button. Today, that’s down to two or three seconds,” due to the proliferation of broadband sites and the examples set by Google, YouTube and the IRS.

The chart below shows which mass-market sites fared the best over the year in Gomez’ tests. For 2010, perhaps Gomez can add a mobile performance category.

Companies: Gomez

The aggressive incentives offered by Toyota (NYSE:TM) appear to be working, bringing shoppers back to Toyota dealerships—and the automaker back from a recall-related sales slump. For the first half of March (through 3/14), Toyota has more than 14 percent of the market, according to the pricing and market-analysis firm TrueCar, which supplies…

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Here’s a clever solution to an aggravating problem. Apple’s Magic Mouse ships with all new iMacs and features the first multi-touch surface on a mouse. As you would expect, it’s got a sleek, tidy design that looks great on your desk.

But doesn’t necessarily feel great in your hand. It’s no hockey puck, but for some users the ergonomics aren’t what they should be.

Will, an Apple fan and part owner of hybridracing.com, decided to do something about it. After some testing, he came up with a small chunk of silicone that sits atop the Magic Mouse with the help of a suction cup. Hence, the Magic Mouse, Fixed was born. This US$10 accessory sits between your palm and the mouse, and can be positioned just so. Watch the video after the break to get an idea of what it feels like. Nice work, Will!

To get even more out of your Magic Mouse, check out our picks for must-have utilities.

Magic Mouse Fixed from mmfixed.com on Vimeo.

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Got the three red lights? Send your bricked Xbox 360 off in style.

Are you ready for your Windows Mobile 6.5 update, Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 owners? You should be — given that every other carrier threw 6.5 on the Pro2 months ago, you’re probably champin’ at the bit by now.

We knew it was coming this month — we just didn’t know when. Thanks to your friendly neighborhood Sprint store spy, we’ve now got an exact date.

PPCGeeks forumgoer 99accordv6 just posted the screencap you see above. “A software update is available for the HTC Touch Pro 2 on 3/19/10.” Doesn’t leave much to the imagination, does it?

Along with all of the WinMo 6.5 goodies, the update should also bring a few tweaks to HTC’s Sense UI, a few bug fixes, and vaguely referenced “social networking integration.” Check back for more news come Friday.

[via PocketNow]