Outage notification

We are currently experiencing an outage with our upstream carrier for phone calls in Australia and some other regions. Estimated restoration time is 3pm AEST Tuesday 6th July 2010

Service fully restored 2:38pm AEST

If you have any remaining issues please contact our support email

support@bigtincan.com

BuzzMe Beats Football Edition

Is now live on App World and Mobihand.

If you want to really get behind your team you need BuzzMe Beats Football Full Edition

BuzzMe Beats Full Edition includes 10 unique football tones that match with customised LED colors and vibration patterns on your phone. Everytime you receive a phone call your phone will flash the colors of your team, play a specially selected football ringtone and vibrate in a pattern specific to your team - and it also includes bonus downloadable wallpapers and links to the latest team information.

The Full Edition lest you control your tone, LED, and vibration for phone calls, SMS/MMS. each email account, and all your social media including BBM, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, MSN chat and over 9 other service types.

The app includes 10 different tones that you can select, or turn off the BuzzMe Beats volume and use your own tone.

Everytime you receive a phone call, SMS/MMS. each email account, and social media including BBM, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, MSN chat and over 9 other service types. your phone will flash the colors of your team, play the alert tone (including whistles, crowd sounds, soccer balls being kicked and more) and vibrate in a pattern specific to your team.

The FULL edition includes links to flag wallpapers of each of the teams.

Get BuzzMe Beats with Football Edition now and get into the spirit of the game.

Want to get Off your Face - well look out for BTC FaceOff

We have been working hard since Christmas on a new app for the BlackBerry Storm that takes advantage of the accelerometer in the Storm and Storm 2.

That app is FaceOff.

And just like the 1997 Movie Staring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, BigTinCan FaceOff lets you escape the bad guys and go undercover when ever you turn your BlackBerry Storm or Storm II "face-off"

FaceOff is something cool for BlackBerry Storm users that uses the built in accelerometer to let users easily manage the ring process on their phone.

With FaceOff you simply need to turn your phone "face off" and the phone will not ring and vibrate when you receive a call. Ideal for when you are in a meeting and don't want to be disturbed or on the bedside table at night.

And FaceOff is a lot more than that. You can select and control the ringtone and vibration, have a different ringtone volume or vibration when the phone is set "face off" and best of all you can use the FaceOff WhiteList to setup numbers that will cause the phone to ring when they call.

With WhiteList you can be in a meeting with the phone set "FaceOff" and be able to feel confident that you wont miss that important call from home, your best client, or the kids school.

As you have covered BigTinCan products in the past we would love to let you do a "preview review" of FaceOff.

The Beta is available for download now at this link

http://bit.ly/amm1l2

We would love to have your comments

and screenshots of the app are at this link

http://gallery.me.com/roegrif1#100289

FaceOff is set for release mid April 2010 on BlackBerry AppWorld and Mobihand for $4.99.

Requirements: FaceOff works on the BlackBerry Storm I and Storm II with OS v4.7 and OSv5.0

BuzzMe v2.6 now ready for download

BigTinCan is please to announce that BuzzMe v2.6 (in the Standard, Pro and Premium flavours) is now ready for download at BlackBerry App World and Mobihand app store.

BuzzMe v2.6 adds some key features people have been asking for since we released BuzzMe v2.5 earlier this year.

In the Premium Version , and supported in the free trial of Premium features that comes with BuzzMe Standard and BuzzMe Pr, BuzzMe v2.6 adds support for three key new plugins

- support for GoogleTalk IM

- support for Yahoo Messenger IM

- support for ICQ

In addition now BuzzMe v2.6 also is aware of your phone startup and will not vibrate upon phone startup for 2 minutes - giving your phone the time it needs to complete the startup process before you start getting BuzzMe alerts.

And BuzzMe v2.6 includes a number of small but important bug fixes and performance improvements.

BuzzMe Standard Edition is available now from BlackBerry AppWorld

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/1019

and Mobihand

http://www.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=34176&n=BuzzMe-Standard

BuzzMe Pro Edition is available now from BlackBerry AppWorld

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/1804

and Mobihand

http://www.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=31050&n=BuzzMe-Pro

BuzzMe Premium Edition is available now from BlackBerry AppWorld

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/4662

and from Mobihand

http://www.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=51551&n=BuzzMe-Premium

And remember we would love you to leave your feedback at our forum

http://forum.bigtincan.com

or on our Twitter account

http://www.twitter.com/bigtincan

Great review of BigTinCan Connect on Gizmodo

Our friends at Gizmodo have published a great review of BigTinCan Connect.

Its going to be very interesting to see how the market in Australia begins to adopt the idea of getting a fixed line replacement from a mobile oriented service like Connect.

Whenever I talk to people about their telecom needs there is this constant bitching about the fixed line, its cost, and mostly its inflexibility.

People need mobility - they love their mobile phone, but they also want to have a traditional landline phone number. They can do that by paying Telstra or their local carrier $40 a month just to receive a few calls - and then they are stuck when they move - its not that easy to relocate a land line.

Not only that, sure you can forward your calls from the landline to the mobile, but then you are paying the huge cost of diversions to mobiles and you get absolutely no control of who get diverted, who doesn't and if you wanted any more advanced call rules your out of luck.

What we think services like Connect will do is to really free the millions of people around the world who have had enough of landlines prices and services, but still want to have a landline - and let them manage who gets diverted to where, when and more.

There are also many people who we talk to who are using Connect as a "front end" to their mobile - so they only give out their Connect number but map that to their mobile - this means they can change their mobile number anytime they want to without having to tell their friends and business partners of a number change.

Oh, and services like Connect save you money on outgoing calls too.

Are you looking at ditching the fixed line number? Tell us more here about what you need to make the switch.

BuzzMe Premium 2.5

BuzzMe Premium has just hit the App World and is already making an impact. We woke this morning to find that on App World UK its already hit No 19 - within 24 hours!

And we have had a few really good reviews including this one by AppBoy

So its off to a good start, but now we are thinking about what to add to the next version :)

We have had a good post on our forum and the suggestion is to add

1. An option to have the LED blink for a period of time for the plugins.
2. Plugins for IM+/IM+ lite
3. Plugins for Windows Live Messenger

Pretty good and doable idea.

If you have any others please post here or on our forum.

We would love to hear hear what you think

BigTinCan Connect 2.5 Launched

We are pleased to announce that we have released the newest version to our Web site - WebCan v2.5

This new update includes improved performance, better quality phone calls and lots of new features including

• Incoming Calls: You can now get a phone number in over 40 countries worldwide and connect that number to your mobile phone and even implement advanced call rules, like callerID based routing, time of day call control and multiple voicemail accounts
  
  
• Conference/Group Calling: Sick of having to get people to dial in to a conference call ? Do you want to have a system where the conference call can dial the participants for you? Want the conference call recording emailed to you right after the call is completed? Our new Group Calling feature does that and more ...

All you need to do is login at http://www.bigtincan.com to take advantage of these new features.

If your account was created in 2009 you will need to sign up again to use the new features of WebCan v2.5. Just visit http://www.bigtincan.com/signup.php and re-create your account and you will get 50c FREE CREDIT to try these new features.

Give it a try and post here or on our forum what you think