We have great news for those of you who like your Fantasy Football ‘09. Yahoo now has a FREE Fantasy Football app for your BlackBerry, what a great combination! I can’t say I’m a sports fan outside of hockey, but I know there are a few football fans out there just like my brothers.

Yahoo has released their Fantasy Football app in the BlackBerry App World, which will allow you to monitor your team from your BlackBerry including checking your league and player stats, and changes to the roster.

Some of the features of the app are as follows:

Live Scoring! Follow your team scores in real time.

Add and Drop Players: It’s that easy…switch them out as you see fit.

Matchups: Can’t remember who you play next week? The schedule rests in your hands, for you to look at a bat of an eye.

The app is a little large but worth it if you’re a fan and you play. Read more about it from BlackBerry App World here >

And good luck to all you Fantasy Football ‘09 players, may the best team win!

It’s been a while since we last look at IM+, the all in one instant messenger. IM+ has just been updated to new version 8.0 and now sports a couple of great features we thought we would share. Not only does IM+ 8.0 have support for MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL, Google Talk, Jabber and MySpace IM but now also supports Facebook chat and Twitter. Basically IM+ is now your complete all in one application for IM on BlackBerry. It may not be the cheapest on the market but it sure packs a heck of a lot of features.

You can purchase IM+ 8 for $34.95 from the BlackBerry Sync Store, as well pick up a free trial >

Features:

• Stay online in IM Push mode and save the battery life! In this mode, IM+ is not running, you remain online and continue receiving IMs as e-mails pushed to your BlackBerry Inbox, so you can reply to them right away.
• Integration with BlackBerry Inbox. The last received IMs are placed BlackBerry message inbox and you get immediate notification of incoming messages on the BlackBerry home screen.
• Translate messages into English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese with integrated online translator.
• Send files, photos and voicemails.
• Incoming Skype call can be recorded and played back as a voice message for free.
• Twitter functionality: View friends� timeline, favorites, direct messages and replies. Post pictures and voice messages to your timeline!
• Sound notifications tuning in BlackBerry profiles.
• Send off-line message in MSN.
• Get IM+ now and get all further updates for free.

Compatible Models: BlackBerry 7130c, 7130e, 7130g, 7130v, 8100 (Pearl), 8110 (Pearl), 8120 (Pearl), 8130 (Pearl), 8220 (Pearl Flip), 8300 (Curve), 8310 (Curve), 8320 (Curve), 8330 (Curve), 8350i (Curve), 8700c, 8700f, 8700g, 8700r, 8700v, 8703e, 8705g, 8707g, 8707h, 8707v, 8800, 8820, 8830, 8900 (Curve), 9000 (Bold), Curve, Pearl, Storm

Check out IM+ All-In-One Messenger today at the BlackBerry Sync Store >

[Press Release]

Yahoo! announced at Mobile World Congress that they will unveiling a new Yahoo! Mobile Application for BlackBerry. The new application will include Opera mini included right in the app along with Yahoo! email, Pulse, Yahoo! Messenger, address book and calender. Keep an eye out for this new BlackBerry app to launch sometime in May 2009. Yahoo! will also feature a new version of the Yahoo! Mobile website is expected to launch in March 2009 with support for the BlackBerry Bold and Storm.

If your feeling up to a test and would like to enter to test out their closed beta head on over to mobile.yahoo.com from your BlackBerry browser and register.

Here’s a copy of the press release:

Introducing Yahoo!^® Mobile – Your Starting Point to the Internet

BARCELONA, Spain–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo! Mobile service – a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple® iPhone™, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia®, RIM®, Samsung®, Sony Ericsson® and Motorola® as well as those powered by Windows Mobile®. Yahoo! Mobile initially will be available today through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009.

“We believe the new Yahoo! Mobile will transform the way millions of mobile users around the world will interact with the Internet,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Yahoo! Inc. “Yahoo! Mobile will enable users to create their own Internet starting point on their mobile device so they can better discover, connect to and stay informed about the people and things that are important to them.”

With a rich design and interactivity that leverages the capabilities of today’s mobile devices, Yahoo! Mobile will offer an open environment within which consumers can bring together their favorite content and services from across the Internet. Consumers will be able to:

• Discover: via results from Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile search, editor-selected content, and new maps tools.
• Stay Connected: through access to their email and social network accounts from the most popular Web providers, as well as instant messaging, address book and calendar tools.
• Stay Informed: by bringing together favorite content – websites, sports teams, news sources, RSS feeds, weather, stocks, horoscopes and more – into a single location.

“Yahoo! Mobile represents significant and continued innovation by Yahoo! around creating a compelling and engaging user experience with mobile data services, and especially the mobile Internet,” notes Scott Ellison, VP Mobile and Wireless, IDC. “Rich and well-integrated offerings like Yahoo! Mobile, offered across a broad range of devices, will play central roles in the rapidly evolving mobile Internet space,” he added.

KEY FEATURES OF YAHOO! MOBILE

The mobile Web and iPhone™ versions of Yahoo! Mobile are planned to include the following features:

Discover

• Yahoo! oneSearch™ – Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile search service providing the most current, relevant answers you need.
• Today – The most interesting stories buzzing on the Internet right now, selected by Yahoo!’s editorial team.

Connect

• Yahoo! oneConnect™ – Yahoo!’s service designed to provide consumers everything they need to stay in touch with the people about whom they care:
  • Email – Access to Yahoo! Mail and other popular email service providers, including Gmail®, Windows Live™ Hotmail and AOL® Mail.
  • Pulse – Access to their social networks, including Bebo®, Dopplr™, Facebook®, Flickr®, Friendster®, Last.fm®, MySpace®, Twitter™ and YouTube™.
  • Yahoo! Messenger – An upgraded version of Yahoo!’s popular mobile instant messaging service.
  • Yahoo! Address Book – Keeps consumers’ contacts always handy and in sync.
  • Yahoo! Calendar – View, add and edit appointments when users are away from their PCs.

Stay Informed

• Yahoo! News – Breaking headlines across popular topics.
• Yahoo! onePlace™ – Access and manage your favorite content, all from one location. Its “Add Anything” functionality is a simple-to-use search and browse process that helps users find and add what they want. Consumers can add their favorite interests from a growing selection of popular categories including news topics and sources, RSS feeds, weather conditions, sports scores, stock quotes, websites/blogs, horoscopes and movie theaters.

The smartphone version of Yahoo! Mobile will include the above functionality, plus:

• Yahoo! oneSearch with Voice™ – Allowing users to launch searches by simply speaking.
• Maps – Powerful improved tools that let consumers locate, learn about and get directions to points of interest.
• Opera Mini™ 4.2 – An integrated version of the world’s most popular mobile web browser, with easy return to the Yahoo! Mobile app, that launches when web site access is needed.
• Widgets – Enhanced mobile-optimized experiences for services from Yahoo! and other brands. Users can browse, add and remove these at anytime according to their tastes.

AVAILABILITY OF YAHOO! MOBILE

A managed beta program for Yahoo! Mobile has started today. Consumers interested in participating should enter http://mobile.yahoo.com into their phone’s browser.

Details on the upcoming general public release for Yahoo! Mobile are as follows:

For the mobile Web:

• Launch timing: expected late March 2009
• Devices: those running WebKit-based browsers (e.g. iPhone and iPod touch, many Nokia Series 60 and Android devices), Opera Mini 4.x, Windows Mobile devices with Internet Explorer Mobile, and the BlackBerry® Bold™ and BlackBerry Storm™ browsers

For iPhone:

• Launch timing: expected late March 2009

For smartphones:

• Launch timing: expected late May 2009
• Devices: hundreds of select models from RIM, Windows Mobile, Nokia S60 and 40, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.

At launch, each version of Yahoo! Mobile is planned to be available for the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Versions for other countries will roll out over the remainder of 2009.

[via BerryReview]

Palringo is a free over the air download to your BlackBerry and has support for Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber and a few others. You can download it OTA by clicking here from your mobile phone.