The latest development in the legal battle involving BlackBerry hand-helds is forcing millions of people to confront an unsettling question: What would life be like without a BlackBerry?

Tel-Aviv, Israel (PRWEB) January 24, 2006 -- Claritude Software has released SpeedFiler™ 1.0, a productivity enhancing add-in for Microsoft Outlook, that is designed to help busy people cope with email overload. SpeedFiler does this by using patent pending technology to make it quick and easy to organize and file incoming and outgoing email messages, without forcing users to change the way they work.

Mobility Email is a portable open-source distribution of Mozilla's Thunderbird. It can be used on a desktop computer as a normal e-mail application, or it can run directly from a USB key (like the iPod Shuffle) without needing to be installed on a computer.

Cingular Wireless has agreed to offer OZ Communications Inc.'s new email client on some of its mobile phones, giving consumers a way to scan messages before deciding whether they are worth the cost of downloading, OZ said Monday.

A legal tussle has been avoided over Google's Gmail trademark. The internet giant has apparently bowed to pressure from a comparatively smaller British financial analysis firm, and from Wednesday is renaming its webmail as "Google Mail" in the U.K.