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SANTA CLARA, CA (MARKET WIRE) PinStack.com, a leading BlackBerry community with more than 500,000 registered members, today announced the release of its official application for BlackBerry smartphones. PinStack partnered with Instango to facilitate the development of this Application, which enables users to make use of PinStack's free BlackBerry support, enhancement and PIN-based (BlackBerry Messenger) networking services while on the go. To download this free application, please go to: http://www.pinstack.com/app.

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO and MONTREAL, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) After a successful three month test pilot in Calgary stores, Future Shop is expanding its used gaming offering across the country. Future Shop, Canada's largest retailer and e-tailer of consumer electronics, announced today the national used gaming program is now available in 55 stores across the country and plans to offer the program in most stores in 2009. Unlike other used gaming retailers, Future Shop's customers can trade-in used video games for a Future Shop gift card, allowing customers to turn their used games into the coolest, newest technology(i).

SANTA CRUZ, CA (MARKET WIRE) Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) announced today the availability of the highly acclaimed Plantronics Discovery(R) 925 Bluetooth(R) earpiece at AT&T retailers nationwide.

Sony has delayed sales of "LittleBigPlanet," one of its most widely anticipated video games, by at least one week in the United States, after finding potentially offensive background music in the game.

COLUMBIA, SC (MARKET WIRE) For the first time in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history, a major sponsorship of a race car is being made available on eBay.

LOS GATOS, CA (MARKET WIRE) Mark/Space, developer of the award-winning synchronization software 'The Missing Sync,' today announced its new Fliq application is available on the Apple App Store. Fliq is a free social networking application that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to instantly send, or "beam," photos and contacts to one another.

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) M-Audio(R), a part of Avid technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), and a leading provider of creative tools for musicians, is proud to collaborate with premier electronic music resource Beatport to co-sponsor the Viva Music Tour. Having started in Montreal on October 16, 2008, artists Steve Lawler, Tiefschwarz and Audiofly are touring North America with a host of M-Audio gear. M-Audio has furnished the Viva Music tour bus with a complete music production studio, which will enable Lawler, Tiefschwarz and Audiofly to create original tracks and remixes while traveling between shows.