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Push Notifications Come to the Android and Blackberry

We just released a new version of Personal Assistant this week for Android and Blackberry. The major improvement over previous versions is the addition of a push notification system. With this feature, you will now receive notifications and alerts regarding updates on your various accounts delivered from the Pageonce servers without having the actual Personal Assistant application operating in the background.  This feature allows you to stay up-to-date on all your life essential information without having to keep the application running–improving both battery life and your life!
Sample of Alerts you will get:

  • Credit Card Fraud Protection
  • Bills Due
  • Low Bank Checking Balance
  • Flight Time Information
  • Cell Minutes and Texts Overage
  • Stock/Investment Gains/Losses

Check out the new versions in the Android Marketplace or the Blackberry App Store to download it now.

Just in time for Summer – a New Look for Pageonce

With summer just weeks away, we thought it was about time to unveil the sleeker, sexier Pageonce you’ve been waiting for. Voilà! Pageonce 3.5 is here, it’s free, and it’s only a click away. By simply updating your iPhone, you’ll be able to enjoy all our exciting new features:

• Brighter, bolder interface
• Larger text size for greater legibility
• More detailed information
• Easier-to-navigate menus
• Improved performance
• Images, graphics, charts and more

This major update reflects over six months of testing and feedback from thousands of Pageonce users. “Our goal from the beginning was to make Pageonce as easy to use as possible on any smartphone,” says Pageonce’s CEO and founder Guy Goldstein. “I’m proud of the growth we’ve seen in our first year, with over half a million registered users.”

Download or update Pageonce today and discover why it’s easier (and more fun) than ever to manage your life on the go. Happy Summer!
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Say Hello to Cell Minute Tracker!

We created our Personal Productivity Assistant application so that all aspects of online life could be managed through one application. However, not everyone’s needs are the same. usageFor some users, keeping track of their bank accounts and credit cards online is more important than anything else, while others need extra help keeping their travel information organized. With these different types of users in mind, Pageonce is rolling out a new series of applications that focus on boosting productivity in specific areas. The first of these is Cell Minute Tracker, released today on iPhone and soon to be released for BlackBerry.
Cell Minute Tracker incorporates all the functionality of Pageonce’s Personal Productivity Assistant application and adds more detailed billing information, a sleeker interface, and new features such as the ability to view balances for each family member on a plan.

With recent research indicating that cell phones have surpassed landlines as America’s preferred method of communication, it’s harder than ever to keep track of how many minutes you’ve been using, but just as easy to get hit with a fee for exceeding your limit. Cell Minute Tracker helps you avoid unexpected charges by putting all the important details at your fingertips. Cell Minute Tracker also makes it possible to monitor usage for all the accounts on your family plan in real-time (if only this Wyoming family had it, they could have saved $4,000!).

Put simply, Cell Minute Tracker provides effortless control of mobile phone usage and bills. From alerting you to upcoming bills and fees to monitoring your daily minute usage, Minute Tracker keeps track of your cell phone plan for you, ensuring that you’ll never exceed your minutes or miss a bill again.

Features of Cell Minute Tracker include:
bills•    View current minute balance, rollover minutes, data plan, SMS use, billing cycle, and previous payments on a single page
•    Receive alerts when you reach 90% of your limit or when your bill is due
•    Breakdown information by family member
•    View and pay your phone bill directly from Cell Minute Tracker
•    128 bit SSL encryption, insured by a top 10 A+ rated insurance carrier
•    Four digit passcode lock capability for enhanced security and convenience

* Cell Minute Tracker is currently available only for AT&T users.

To get Cell Minute Tracker working for you, download the application from the Apple app store: Click Here

Price reduction for Pageonce BlackBerry application

We know that our users have strong views on whether the BlackBerry application or the iPhone application is superior, but to us at Pageonce, all of our applications are created

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equal. That’s why we’re lowering the price of the Pageonce BlackBerry application from $4.99/month to $9.99/year – a yearly saving of almost $50. Now Pageonce’s revolutionary personal internet assistant is available to BlackBerry users at the same low price as our iPhone application.*

Since the launch of Pageonce Blackberry just few months ago we have witnessed an overwhelmingly positive reaction to our application. On the back of rave reviews from sources like C-Net, CNN, and Venture Beat, Pageonce has become one of the fast-growing applications for the BlackBerry, and the release of version 2.0 will only add to its popularity. The success of Pageonce on BlackBerry means that we’ll be putting even more time and energy into improving it. And now with our competitive yearly rate, maintaining your life online and on the go is not just easier than ever, it’s also cheaper than ever.

Under our new pricing, users who currently pay $4.99 for one month of Pageonce will get 12 months (starting from the end of their current month of service) for just $9.99. Current users of Pageonce BlackBerry need not take any action to switch to the new pricing; your next bill will reflect the new yearly price. For those who bought perpetual Pageonce BlackBerry at its original price of $29.99 there will be no change at all.

We’re also rolling out a special offer for those of you who took advantage of our free 14-day trial but decided not to purchase Pageonce at its previous monthly rate We’re offering you an additional free 14 days – so you’ll have plenty of time to decide whether to purchase Pageonce at its new low price. We hope you’ll agree that Pageonce BlackBerry is an essential application that makes life easier all year round. To take advantage of the additional 14-day trial, simply download Pageonce for BlackBerry again directly from your BlackBerry at http://m.pageonce.com.

If you have any questions about our new pricing, your free trial, or about Pageonce BlackBerry in general, don’t hesitate to contact us at support@pageonce.com.

* Pageonce’s iPhone application, currently available for $9.99, will be making the switch to yearly pricing when iTunes is updated to support it later this year.

Pageonce BlackBerry App Version 1.5

We are very pleased to bring you the Pageonce BlackBerry App Version 1.5. , which features a number of exciting new additions and enhancements.

With this app, we have decided to make the switch to a paid subscription service in order to improve our product and provide better support to paying users.

So how have we gotten better? Just in time for the busy holiday season (and to help survive the current economy), Version 1.5 allows you to keep a much better handle on your finances. A financial balances summary section credit-cards2shows you a summary of balances from each of your financial accounts. In addition to this new feature, a transaction summary section and a credit card summary section help you keep track of those dollars and where they’re going.

We have also created a brand new communication infrastructure which has enhanced both the stability and performance of our app.

We know the switch from a free app to a paid app may come as a shock to some of you. Aside from the improvements and better support we will be able to provide now that the app is paid, we also like to think of our application as one that can ultimately help you save money in the long run.

One of our users, Mike from Flower Mound, Texas had this to say about a money-saving experience he had with Pageonce:

“Pageonce is fantastic. A week ago I got an email from Pageonce titled ‘A change that might interest you’,” he said. “The message indicated that a charge of over $500 had been charged to one of the credit cards I have. Knowing that I hadn’t made any major purchases recently this email got me to explore the charge deeper. It turned out to be a fraudulent charge for almost $800 that we were able to get addressed almost immediately. If I hadn’t had registered for Pageonce it would have been a month before we were alerted to this fraud. Pageonce saved us $800 and because of the immediate alert we caught the thief red handed (it was an internet order that was in process). I cannot express the feeling of confidence, security, and comfort having Pageonce watching over me provides. Thank you Pageonce.”

Thanks to all of you for using Pageonce! You can get Version 1.5 for a
14-day free trial or you can purchase the app for a $4.95 monthly subscription fee. For a more detailed description of the app visit the Pageonce website.

And heads up — Version 1.0 and 1.1 of our BlackBerry app will expire in approximately 2 weeks. So be sure to purchase your Version 1.5 before then and start enjoying preferred support and all the other great new features of our personal productivity assistant.

How do you stay organized?

Personal Organization. It keeps us up at night, writing endless to-do lists and constantly struggling to come up with better ways to achieve this seemingly elusive state of life. Its a full time job in and of itself.

InsomniaI mean I think its hard managing my own life which consists of me, me and me: single lady just out of college, studio apartment, groceries and a couple monthly bills. Whatever’s left over goes to dining out with friends, even though everyone keeps telling me I should start investing that money now in some kind of retirement plan… I’ll open one soon, promise! But anyway, no cell phone bill (thanks mom and dad for putting me on the family plan). No car payment (thanks mom and dad for the car). No car insurance (thanks mom and dad…until I turn 25). I’m lucky and thankful to have so much support, but the stuff I do have to manage can still seem like a headache at times. I can’t imagine having to plan and manage for a family: school, pets, play dates, activities, family trips, appointments, a mortgage! I think my utilities, Internet and cable bills are annoying enough to keep track of. Really, I don’t know how you grown-ups do it…

Anyway, we created Pageonce to help ease the pain of managing all that stuff (at least all the stuff you can do online) by organizing all your online accounts into easy to read screens on your BlackBerry, your iPhone and your web browser.

Out in the blogosphere, there are tons of ideas on how to get organized. We know that sometimes even the search can be overwhelming as you’re faced with lists and lists of blogs that link to more and more blogs and sites. In an effort to stream line ideas (or maybe we’ll just be adding to the mountain of information already out there??), we would like to ask our productivity-minded readers: Whats your best organizational tip — besides Pageonce of course — that you would like to share with others? It can be online or offline, just as long as its tried and true and helps you rest easy at night.

BlackBerry App Day 2

Our new BlackBerry app has been available for 2 days now. So far we are happy to have been been covered by CNET, KCBS news, VentureBeat, the Industry Standard, and on the homepage of PinStack.com.

A main concern of users who are new to our service (and with good reason) is security. If you have a chance you can read about how we keep you safe, and you can also check out some third party validation which we’ve received on the strength of our security from CNN and on the Kim Komando Show’s Cool Sites of the Day.

Thank you to all of you new users out there and please keep up the great feedback!

Welcome to the Pageonce Blog

Welcome to the Pageonce blog. Just wanted to give everyone an update on where we’ve been, where we’re at and where we’re headed.

Thank you to all our private beta users – your great feedback helped us greatly enhance and improve our app for our public beta launch.

Our public launch also brought us continued daily response from users on feature enhancements, new requests, and overall product ideas. This feedback too has been invaluable.

The release of our iPhone application, A Personal Assistant, in mid-July upped our daily registrants to the tens of thousands and we realized that, like many sources are pointing to, mobile technology holds great potential for the future. So we set to work on creating our first BlackBerry application, dated to be released very soon, although we can’t say exactly when yet.

Thats about it for now, more posts to come shortly. As always we welcome your feedback and look forward to hearing from you. Other than our blog, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere.