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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 the live scores, standings, schedule, breaking news and more for free on your BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device.

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!

The US Open is in full swing and with Viigo at your side you won’t miss any of the action. Can Federer win his 16th Grand Slam title and distance himself in the record books or will the return of Nadal put his #1 status on the line? Get live game, set and match updates, follow the official ATP Twitter feed (without even having to access Twitter), player rankings and schedules.

To add tennis to your Viigo, from the home screen enter the Sports module and select Add Sport. From the list choose tennis.

At this point you are presented with a choice of adding men’s tennis (ATP), women’s tennis (WTA) or tennis news. Of course, you can add them all. For both tours, you can follow live matches, see the upcoming schedule, see the player rankings, and the official twitter stream.

Once the channels have been added, the next time you enter the sport module the tennis service will be available to you. Follow the matches as they are played, view the rankings, read the Twitter stream, view the tournaments that are coming up or that have past and access the breaking tennis news.

Advantage Viigo!

Whether you’re sending or receiving a courier package it never fails that you want to know how the delivery is progressing. Whether you’re using FedEx, USPS, or DHL you can now keep tabs on the process from your smartphone via Viigo.

Following is what you need to do to track your packages in Viigo.

Enter the Local Interest module and select Add Channel.

From the list select Packaging Tracking. You will then be asked to provide a tracking number. At this point we provide you the option to associate a label or name with the package in question. If a label is not provided the reference you will see when you return to see the delivery progress will be the tracking number itself.

Once a number has been entered, when you return to the main Local Interest screen you will see that the package tracking service has been added. Enter the service to see the packages you are tracking.  Select a package to see where it is at that moment in time.

Neither rain, sleet, snow or hail can stop Viigo from knowing where you mail is.

With the addition of new titles such as Frankenstein, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Last of the Mohicans, Viigo now boasts a total of almost 100 FREE eBooks to choose from.

By delivering books in installments on a daily basis, DailyLit has been set up to make it easy to read an eBook on your smartphone. Here is how it works.

Enter the Entertainment module from the homepage and select Add Channel.

From the list choose eBooks from DailyLit then choose a folder from which you would like to make your book selection. Of note, with this update there is a new folder, Contemporary Reads.

The last step is to pick the books you want to read. The next time you enter the Entertainment module you will see the DailyLit service has been added and within it you will see the books you had requested.

Select the book that you want to read and you will see that the first installments are available. Click on the first one and start reading. Installments will continue to be delivered to you on a daily basis until the book has been completed.

All the classics, all the time from you friends at Viigo and the DailyLit.

Team Viigo
Daily Literate!