What's New in Viigo

The puck is about to drop to start a new NHL season and Viigo wants to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Comprised of live scores, stats, schedules, standings, rosters, and news channels, the enhanced hockey service will allow you to follow the league like never before. The 2009/10 season is almost upon us so add hockey to your Viigo today.

It only takes three clicks to access the hockey feed library. 1) from the home screen click on Sports, 2) click on “Add Sports”, 3) click on hockey.

From here you can see all the folders and feeds you have to choose from. By selecting the feeds you will have access to the content once you return to the hockey service. Once the season starts an additional feed for league wide statistics will also be available.

You can also elect to receive team specific information by entering the Team Channels folder. There you can access team scores, schedule and roster. And once the season starts, you will also be able to add team specific statistics.

And, of course, you are also able to select from a number of hockey news sources to be sure you stay on top of all the happenings across the league or as it related to your team.

Kick save and a beauty!

We have something special for those of you who either just want your News & RSS feeds only, and/or are running on memory constrained devices.

Announcing Viigo News! Available  immediately at www.getviigo.com/news, the application allows you to select from hundreds of popular business, finance, sports, entertainment or headline news directly from the Channel Library so that you can stay current with the world around you. We now also make it possible for you to get the content you love from our Content Partners such as BBGeeks, BerryReview, CrackBerry.com etc. all in one place.

With Viigo News, we’ve also updated the UI to make a few things easier.

You’ll notice the new buttons across the bottom of the Channels screen. Now, you can just click the “Add Channel” button to take you directly to the Channel Library. There, 13 newly organized categories are immediately available to you to select from.

We’ve also made it easier for you to add content not already in our channel library. If you want Viigo to search for feeds associated with a particular web site, for example, from within the Channel library, click on “Add Your Own Channel” then select “Check a website for RSS”

And, the News version of Viigo, of course, allows you to share what you find interesting with your social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Viigo News now also supports dedicated WiFi! Those of you who are not on large data plans can update the app for free while you are on WiFi. Check in OPTIONS/Network Settings and select WiFi … for WiFi only connectivity.

Lighter and faster, with Viigo News you’ll always be in the know.

Important Note: If you are installing Viigo News, please remove your current version of Viigo first, and reboot your device. Then once, you’ve installed Viigo News, just sign in with your existing user name and password, and your feeds will re-appear,

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When Just The News Counts

Viigo and Research in Motion are bringing all the news and events of London Fashion Week to BlackBerry smartphones. The London Fashion Week version of Viigo is available for download at www.getviigo.com/lfw.

With the London Fashion Week version of Viigo you can access catwalk schedules, designer biographies, photos from the runways, live news reports, the official Twitter streams and more.

The Catwalk Schedule provides a day-by-day event listings with associated designer and the designers biographical information.

The Designers channel features biographical information of each of the designers.

If you are visiting London for the event you will also benefit from having local bar, hotel, restaurant and shop information.

All the breaking news from the event is immediately available to you as well.

Follow London Fashion Week’s official Twitter stream. And, not only can you view a post, you can retweet it, reply to it and reply to all mentioned in the post.

And, of course, what fashion show would be complete without photos? Get the best shots on your BlackBerry smartphone.

On the runway with Viigo.

The top 32 teams in Europe have begun their run to the UEFA Champions League title and Viigo has all the matches, teams and news covered. Who do you think will be playing for the title in Madrid next May?

Get it all … live scores, standings, schedule, breaking news and more.

To follow the EUFA Champions League on Viigo, enter the Sports module and select “Add Sports” and from the list select “Soccer” then “UEFA Champions League”.

At this point you have the option of getting the feeds for league wide schedule, Live Scores, Completed Games Scores and Standings. Further, you can enter the Team Scores & Schedules folder to get team specific information. Once in the folder, select the group your favorite team in is, for instance Group H for Arsenal and then choose the Schedule and/or Live Scores feeds.

Once you have added the feeds, they will be available to you the next time you enter the Sports module. And you can follow your team and the league.

Bend it like Viigo!

We recently passed a couple of important milestones that I thought were worth mentioning.

A few days ago, the server team informed me that we’d passed the threshold of 1.5BB articles delivered … a stunning number if you think about it. Clearly, Viigo users are voracious consumers of information.

Secondly, we recently surpassed 2MM downloads of the app itself. In fact, the download pace has been increasing rapidly, with the vast majority of downloads having actually occurred in the past 8 months.

Kudos to the team here, and to our many partners … these numbers are the direct result of a lot of hard work from a great group of talented people.

And … thanks to all of you for making Viigo so popular!

Mark Ruddock

CEO
Team Viigo

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