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Facebook For Your Blackberry

Facebook For Your BlackberryCan’t get enough of Facebook? Have a Blackberry? Then you’re in luck. Yesterday Research In Motion introduced Facebook for Blackberry Smartphones, meaning you can access the social network wherever you are.   Unveiled at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisco, it’s a free download  software application that allows users to get straight ontoFacebook from their phones. T-Mobile will be the first to offer it.   And what can you do with it? You can send and view messages, photos, pokes and Wall posts, take and upload pictures, alongwith tags and captions, manage photo albums, update your status and invite friends – in other words, pretty much everything you can do from a computer.   “Facebook is one of thefastest growing web destinations among BlackBerry smartphone users and it has become an important element in the evolving fabric of personal communications,” said Mike Lazaridis, President andCo-CEO at Research In Motion in a statement. “Facebook and RIM share a vision for enhanced mobile communications and social networking based on open, standards-based platforms and this hasallowed us to produce a rich mobile application for Facebook users that leverages the push-based architecture, multimedia features and industry-leading usability of the BlackBerry solution.” 

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