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Popular business card reading app for the iPhone, ABBYY Business Card Reader, is now in version 3.0, updated with features that go beyond the classic “capture data from business cards and save it to the address book” functionality.
Here’s the trick – ABBYY Business Card Reader 3.0 will not only perform its basic task, but will also search for information about new contacts across popular social and business networks and Google Maps. So in the process of scanning a business card, the application will query Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as check in Hoover’s business database so that you get more information and a better picture about the person “behind the card.”
In addition, the new version of ABBYY Business Card Reader further simplifies work with the application by highlighting uncertain characters in the captured text, eliminating the need to visually check all the data. Plus there’s a new more intuitive user interface included in this release…
All in all, this is an app that’s definitely worth $9.99, at least in my book. 
ABBYY Business Card Reader ($9.99) [iTunes link]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
