Phea Duch, one of the founders of wGarage, dropped me an email the other day offering to let me test drive their reverse lookup application for Blackberry. When you receive a phone call from a number that isn’t in your address book, this little utility lets you perform a reverse lookup on the number, and add it to your address book. Very slick. You can see a flash demo here, and the company also offers a trial.
It works well for regular land lines, but because cellular phones have no directory listings, it doesn’t work for those. But if you’re a Blackberry user looking for a quick and easy way to populate your address book, based on who calls you, this is just the ticket.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
