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Motorola offers organizational capability for Android-powered devices

TORONTO – Motorola is asking Canadians to say hello to the first phones with social skills.The company will introduce Motoblur, a social service for Android-powered devices, to Canada with all three national wireless carriers in the first half of 2010.Motorblur organizes all messages from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, along with emails and texts, and streams them to live widgets for reply directly from a user’s home screen, eliminating the need to switch between different mobile applications.  It also backs up and restores contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, and email and social network messages on a server, allowing for easy...