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SimplyHeadlines is a free, personalized daily email newspaper featuring news from thousands of sources such as the New York Times, iVillage, Men’s Health, Bloomberg, and the BBC, among others.  Users can also add non-news related items, such as local weather, personalized stock quotes, keyword news clippings, comics, sudoku and other features to make their SimplyHeadlines a truly customized, personal newspaper—saving you time and effort when treading to stay afloat in today’s busy world.

SimplyHeadlines is delivered by email for computer or mobile device reading.

“We found that the majority of people are extremely busy and don’t have time to sit around clicking on multiple web sites for news stories to stay informed. Simply delivering the headlines and abstracts of only the stories they care about to their email is the natural evolution of dropping a newspaper on their doorstep – they wake up and it’s waiting there for them on their computer, Blackberry, Treo or mobile phone. It’s that simple.”

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Microsoft will integrate Live Search into its Mobile Search platform, enabling Nokia consumers access search directly from their Nokia Nseries and S60 handsets in 14 languages.

Microsoft will provide search results for web search, as well as access to information such as stock quotes, movie times, and common facts via Encarta Instant Answers. The Mobile Search experience from Nokia allows users to find search results more quickly than by using the browser and finding the web page of an internet search provider, since in many cases search will be accessible directly from the menu screen.

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TV Guide and 4INFO are getting together to bring TV listings directly to cellphones. You will now have the ability to quickly search for channel listings, specific programs, and time-based programming from any mobile phone via SMS or WAP. The service is available to all mobile phone users regardless of carrier, and will allow TV fans to easily locate air dates, times, and channels for their favorite programming while out of town, or just on the go.

This builds on 4INFO’s ability to deliver sports scores, yellow page listings, stock quotes, movie times, hotel reservations, weather forecasts, horoscopes, flight status, package tracking, fantasy sports, drink recipes, and yes, even pickup lines.

So this solves the problem of how to get the girl but why can’t we have a DVR in the U.S. that is programmable over your phone. If 4INFO can do that for me I will be screaming accolades all the way home (while managing my baseball team, grabbing some drinks, on my plane, while tracking my Fedex, managing my portfolio...)

[Thanks Bob]

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The service requires you to sign up and then call 1-888-EZ-ASKME (392-7563) or text message your question and the answer is sent directly to your cell phone within moments. There is a free trial that we tested out and after that answers are $.49 cents, but if you can make a wager vs. Mr. Know-It-All on your next question then it is surely worth it.

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