The issue of the two icons and/or the errors updating/running Viigo were caused by a bad file upload to App World. Although the error was on our side, we’d like to thank the amazing team at RIM for helping us get it resolved so quickly.

App World users should now be OK upgrading to the new version of Viigo.

If you have encountered the problem, to be extra safe, please remove Viigo and re-boot before re-installing from App World.

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Failure to remove Viigo first, may result in installation issues.

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The new version, which has been available from http://GetViigo.com or any of (our partner sites) for a few days is NOW available on App World. To update from App World go to My World (which is the 4th icon along the bottom) … click on Viigo For BlackBerry … and then choose Upgrade. If you’re not running the App World version, simply head to http://GetViigo.com or the appropriate Partner site.

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Onwards

Located in the folder “Social Networks” you will find support, not only for adding multiple Twitter accounts, but also for adding a number of other social networks including Jaiku and Identi.ca.

Add this to the ability to Tweet an article from Viigo with a single click, and you have the one app to help you stay connected!

A reminder that the latest version of Viigo is available immediately from BlackBerry App World, via OTA from http://GetViigo.com or from any of our partner download sites (e.g. http://GetViigo.com/CrackBerry, httpGetViigo.com/BBCool, http://GetViigo.com/BerryReview, http://GetViigo.com/BBGeeks, etc.).

Note: if you are changing to or from the App World version of Viigo for the first time, please delete your current version of Viigo first before downloading or installing.

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Communication and Community - Powerful Stuff

Note: The new version has also been submitted to App World, but has not yet been released … this can take 48 hours or so to make it through the system, so please keep an eye on App World for it’s availability, and for a one-click upgrade.

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Faster, Better, Stronger

Ever wanted to quickly check recent transactions/account balances in your Credit Cards and/or Bank Accounts … get confirmation of an executed trade … lookup your mileage balance on your Frequent Flyer account … check your Wireless Bill to see if you are close to your usage limits … or see if your Starbucks card needs topping up?

You can now do all of this from the palm of your hand with Viigo, thanks to our relationship with the groundbreaking PageOnce service.

Within the Business and Finance Service, you will see a new folder called “My Accounts“

Due to the sensitivity of the information available in the “My Accounts” service, you are required to enter your credentials every time you use the service.

Here are some examples of the types of information you can access with the My Accounts Service (obviously a fictitious account):

Although the My Accounts service costs $9.99 a year, we’ll let you evaluate the service for free via by allowing you to set up a fully functioning trial account, right from inside Viigo. Once you have your trial account, head over to the PageOnce site to start configuring your account. It takes a few seconds … You can find this at http://www.PageOnce.com.

Note: If you want to explore My Account without signing up for an account, feel free to play with the Sample Account we have set up for you.

Obviously, security is key to this system. Here are some of the ways in which PageOnce carefully protects your data.

Military level security

Pageonce employs military level security - the highest standards in internet security. Our independent, multiple security layers include 256 bit data encryption, 128 bit data encrypted SSL systems and multiple firewalls.Proactively monitor against identity theft and fraud

Not only does Pageonce alert you to critical activity in your accounts, but you can view all of your accounts in one website.

Protects your passwords

Because you no longer have to remember all of your logins and passwords, Pageonce makes it easier for you to create different user names and passwords for each account and access them directly through Pageonce.

Anonymity

Pageonce will never require personally identifiable information that connects you to your accounts. All you need is your email address and zip code.

Certified by the security experts

Pageonce maintains state of the art security practices and is certified by TRUSTe, McAfee Hacker Safe and VeriSign.

Ongoing security optimization

Pageonce hires the best security experts to conduct periodic security reviews and vulnerability assessments.

Insured by the best

Pageonce is insured by a top 10 A+ rated insurance company.

Read only financial accounts

Financial accounts are a read-only service. Pageonce’s system cannot manipulate any of the information in your financial accounts.

Pageonce NEVER shares or rents your data with or to anyone

Pageonce is designed so that you are the only one who can access your account. You can delete any or all of your accounts at any time and Pageonce erases it from the system.

Prevents phishing

Because you access all of your online accounts through the secure Pageonce site, you are no longer exposed to criminal attempts by strangers to access your personal accounts and sensitive data through fraudulent links that mimic real provider website logins.

One of the most important aspects of the service is that it alerts you (via eMail) to suspicious activity within your accounts. They have numerous success stories already published … here is just one from the PageOnce web site.

“…A week ago I got an email from Pageonce titled “A change that might interest you… It turned out to be a fraudulent charge for almost $800 that we were able to get addressed almost immediately…” Mike, Flower Mound, Texas

We hope you enjoy this powerful new service …

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Looking out for your financial future.

Those of you running the latest version of Viigo will have noticed a new folder called “Deals”.

Thanks to our partnership with Gazaro, you can now subscribe to live feeds of the hottest deals across a wide range of consumer electronics. Alternately, you can choose to subscribe directly to feeds from your favorite stores, including Wal-mart, Amazon, BestBuy, etc.

Opening the Deals folder and clicking on “Add Channel” gets you a diverse list of Deal Channels …

Once you have selected all the deals you are interested in, they appear in your deals folder.

The deal page also includes a very useful price trend graph which helps you make instant and informed buying decisions.

If you want to purchase the item (before the deal expires!) you can do so right within Viigo …. click “Buy Now” and we’ll take you to the Vendor’s purchase page!

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“The Engines Are At 200% Captain“

Our weather service, which is delivered in partnership with Accuweather, is one of the most popular services within Viigo. Each day, hundreds of thousands of people check the weather on Viigo, and we owe them the best weather experience we can provide.

Earlier versions of Viigo’s weather service suffered from a couple of key issues … (1) for cities with few subscribers, collection times were often long, resulting in the weather being out of date, and (2) for detailed information, we forced you to open a web page (a slow and sometimes arduous process).

We’ve not only improved both of those things, we’ve actually added some important features.

Here’s a look at the new weather screen for a city (in this example New York). You’ll see live current conditions … and a 5 day forecast, including a summary of the expected conditions.

Clicking on the Current conditions, brings you additional details, delivered without the need for you to launch an external browser.

For cities within North America, scrolling down further will get you a live radar image, so you can see what storms might be approaching.

Note: in order to fully take advantage of Weather 2.0, you’ll need to remove your current weather cities and add the new ones, and you’ll need to be running the latest version of Viigo.

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“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah …”

We will be doing a number of posts over the next few days highlighting some of the new features, but for the moment, we’ll just let the following pictures speak for themselves.

The hottest deals from your favorite retailers!

It is available immediately on BlackBerry App World, via OTA from http://GetViigo.com or from any of our partner download sites (e.g. http://GetViigo.com/CrackBerry, httpGetViigo.com/BBCool, http://GetViigo.com/BerryReview, http://GetViigo.com/BBGeeks, etc.).

Note: if you are changing to or from the App World version of Viigo for the first time, please delete your current version of Viigo first before downloading or installing.

Enjoy!

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Onwards!

Within this folder you will find a diverse collection of the top VC blogs from across the world ordered by popularity (as per Google Reader).

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Improving Your Pre-money Value

To add tennis, just open the Sports folder, click on Add Sports … select Tennis and then WTA or ATP. From here you can choose to subscribe to Live Matches, Schedules and/or Rankings.

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For those who are more interested in the European game all this functionality is also available for UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, English Premier League, Serie A and La Liga.

To add any of the soccer features go to Sports and select Add Sports. The list of currently supported sports is presented. From the list select Soccer or European Football. The following screen presents the list of leagues you can choose from.

At this point you can add the channels that represent the entire league. Because we are FC fans we also want to make it easy to get access to our team’s info.

The MLS schedule feature presents all the upcoming games. Click through to one more level and info on the venue and start time and more is presented. To add this to a schedule simply by clicking on the menu button and selecting add to Calendar. This can also be shared with the folks in a social network using the one-click tweet feature.  The schedule feature is also available on a team by team basis.

Live scores unables you to follow the game as it is happening while completed game scores gives you the results from games past. Further to that is the ability to get greater detail on the venue and share the score with your friends via Twitter.

Both the live scores and complete game scores are also available on a per team basis.

Also available is standings. This has been broken up in to Eastern standings and Western standings. If you were to click on any of the teams, you will get the details on their season to date, including home record, visiting record, record in the conference and versus the other conference, goals for and against and more.

Viigo also provides a great deal of news within its Soccer channel.

In FIFA.com you can see the headlines that provide a run down on all the breaking stories. One click further brings you a synopsis. From there you can send the story to a friend or yourself via email, Tweet the story, post it to delicious or view the entire article.

Goal.com has similarly keep you current on the world of soccer.

Viigo’s got the world of soccer at its feet.

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Adding any or all of these features is quick and easy.

First, enter Sports and select Add Sports. You are then presented with a list of sports currently supported in Viigo. From that list select Golf. At this point you will see 6 folders, 5 for each of the tours you can now follow in Viigo as well as one for golf News & Blogs.

Each of the 5 tours covered is setup in an identical manner. You can add the Schedule, the live leaderboard and previous tournament feeds. And you can also enter the stats folder where you can add Fedex cup points, money leaders and scoring average standings from the stats folder.

The live leaderboard will give you updates on the progress of the players as they make their way around the course.  Round, hole, stroke and position are presented. One more click and you can see more detailed information on how they are performing in the tournament.

The schedule also contains event information such as the purse and the location and one click brings you to details such as the defending champion and course length.

Previous tournaments lets you see who has won the events on the year and one click will give you a full rundown on the leaderboard from that event.

And finally there are the stats channels for details on FedEx Cup points standing for instance.  Here you will see how many points the players have collected and where they are positioned in the field. And one click will give you more information on what they’ve achieved to earn their spot in the rankings.

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Viigo’s got you covered from tee to green.

We’ve integrated with OpenTable to bring you live bookings for your favourite cities. With access to more than 10,000 restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Japan you’ll be sure to find a place to eat wherever your travels take you.

It’s easy to use.

Simply head to the Local Interest Folder and hit Add Channel … and select Restaurant Reservations.

Once there, select the city and locale (or locales) you are interested in.

Now, whenever you look in Local Interest, you will see a folder called Restaurant Reservations.

Within this folder you will see all of the locales that you’d like to keep handy.

Clicking on a locale gets you the restaurants in that region.

Clicking on a restaurant gets you the booking screen from Open Table.

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Always Something Yummy on the Viigo Menu

On Tuesday at 3:15PM in Grand 6, Viigo will be unveiling its new release, highlighting a suit of powerful Enterprise features, in addition to some long awaited functionality such as Streaming Audio, post to Facebook and FULL Twitter Integration… oh … and we’ll have a few surprises.

Viigo’s CEO Mark Ruddock, and CTO Jay Steele will be on hand to answer your questions about what’s in store for Viigo in the coming months, and to hear from you about what you’d like to see in the app.

The Session is WW03 for those of you who are starting to play your schedules.

Jay and Mark are also very active on Twitter, so feel free to reach out to them any-time. @RuddockMH for Mark and @JayDSteele for Jay. @Viigo is also on Twitter.

Note: we will shortly be making the WES Conference service available across all Partner versions of Viigo, so you won’t

to have switch from your favorite version of Viigo in order to access the on-line calendaring and scheduling, speaker bios, company backgrounds and breaking news from the show. It’s WES in the palm of your hands.

  

Also available in Black.

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Cheeky is Good

Anchoring this section is a rich portfolio of content from the Sugar Network.

When it comes to getting cool info on subjects like Pop Culture, Fashion & Style, Home & Family and Happy Living, there is no source like the Sugar Network. And Viigo is excited to have formed a partnership with Sugar Inc. to make all the Sugar Network content easily accessible on your BlackBerry or Windows Mobile smartphone. The conversational and witty editorial voices that create the content read by over 8 million unique visitors on the web can now be found in no fewer than 16 feeds, including PopSugar, FabSugar, GeekSugar, BuzzSugar in Viigo.

Complementing this is a wide range of other content our Female editorial team has pulled together covering topics from Babies to Business and from Beauty to BlackBerry. They want to hear from you! Please send suggestions for new content to feeds@Viigo.com.

To get to the Channel Library, open the News & RSS folder and select “Add a Channel” from the menu, choose the Interest & Lifestyle folder and select the For Women option.

Oh, and Men, we’re working on one just for you too …

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Never a Dull Moment

Call it a Cinderella story if you will but with only 4 invites he was able to upset the higher seeds and take home the prize. Congrats to Andra’e!

We greatly appreciate that you are willing to put us in front of your friends, family, co-workers, peers, acquaintances…, well, you get the picture. And we want to continue to do our part in repaying the favor by carrying forward our contest. We love awarding one of our Viigoians a prize for their referral.

Inviting people is easy! Just click on the Send Viigo To a Friend option on your Viigo home screen.

Good Luck!

All the best,

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C’mon Your Mother Told You Sharing Was Good!