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• Do you live in the San Francisco area or plan to be there on 5th of August?
• Do you want to go to an awesome conference that brings together youth, entrepreneurship, startups, the web and technology?
• Do you want a free ticket?

Yes, Yes and Yes?

Awesome , because we have 10 free tickets for the 2011 Teens In Tech conference . We will give the tickets away to the first ten of you who will leave a comment below saying why do you want to attend the event. (make sure you you fill in your email address so we can contact you).

You can find more information about the Teens In Tech conference of their official web page.

Good luck everybody.

As promised last week, we’re back with a Nimbuzz Theme for Nokia Symbian phones that run on s60v3.  You can get it here.

As you might already know there are two screen formats available for s60v3, the tall format – 240X320 – like on Nokia e51 and the wide format – 320X240 – like one Nokia E71-72-73. This means you need to install the right theme format on your phone to look good .

The themes are bundled together in a .zip file, so you need to extract them before you install them.

To install it on your phone you can either transfer it via Bluetooth or via the Nokia PC Suite. Once installed you can activate it from Themes menu. You can find the Themes menu by going to Menu>Control Panel>Themes.

We hope you will like this theme. If you have any idea for the next Freebie Friday let us know in the comments .

This week was awesome. The Nimbuzz community just reached 50 Million users worldwide and we also launched a super cool update for Nokia Symbian phones .

To make it even more awesome we are giving away a very stylish Nimbuzz desktop Wallpaper. We have optimized this for six different screen resolutions and you can download it here. We hope you like it.

Next week, we will  make something for our Symbian users so stay tuned!

For all you Google Chrome fans we have a nice surprise. We designed two cool looking Nimbuzz branded themes that you can install and use with your favorite browser. (Click on the above image to see it in full size).

How to install Google Chrome themes?

1. Save the files on your computer
2. Unzip the files
3. Pick the right version for you (Mac or Windows)
4. Drag the file in Chrome
5. Click Continue (bottom left)
6. Done – you can enjoy the brand new themes.

We hope you will like them and use them as your default theme .

Do you have any ideas for Freebie Friday? Do you want any custom Nimbuzz graphics? Let us know in the comment section below!

PS: The brand new Nimbuzz Webchat is already available in the Chrome Store. Check it out.

This week for Freebie Friday we are giving away a really awesome Nimbuzz iPhone wallpaper.

This comes in 20 versions, each customized to fit the a different app position. With this wallpaper no matter where you place the Nimbuzz icon on your screen it will always shine . You can get them from here.

We hope you will enjoy it!

PS: I already have it on my iPhone and love the fact that Nimbuzz shines even when I open the task bar . Take a look:

Nokia’s Ovi store is a great place to discover cool new apps. With over 5 million downloads each day and plans to offer WP7 apps in the future, the daily download number can only go up.

Having so many apps to choose from it can be difficult at times to find the best Nokia apps.

Because we want to help out, we did our own research and created a list of top Nokia apps, for a category we called web tools .

We hope you will enjoy it…(and check even more cool apps at the end of  post)

Best Nokia Apps – Web Tools

• Vlingo – the free Nokia app uses voice recognition to let you send a text or email message, call a friend, search the web using Google or create a note to yourself just by speaking into your Nokia smartphone.

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Last week we have received great story from one of our fans. He told us how Nimbuzz helped him make a lot of new friends, when he moved from India to Japan.

Everybody please welcome Appy!

Hello Nimbuzzers,

My name is Appy, I am 18 years old, I am originally from India and now living in Japan.

I discovered your application 3 years ago, when my informatics teacher told us about Nimbuzz in class. Ever since, the way I communicate and how I meet new friends, improved a 1000 times.

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Last week, we promised we will pick three of your questions and answer them on our blog. With over 740 questions, that wasn’t an easy task .

Without any further do, let’s see which were most frequently asked questions.

• What does Nimbuzz mean?

The dictionary meaning of Nimbuzz is “halo” – or “a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth”, a definition that fits our vision of “mobile freedom” very well.

Of course, Nimbuzz means so much more. For us Nimbuzz is the place where we can meet, share and connect with all our friends and we see Nimbuzz being the free call and messaging app for the connected generation.

Here is what Nimbuzz means from your point of view.

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We are proud to tell you that the global mobile Nimbuzz community has reached the staggering milestone of 40 million registered users.

Imagine… if  Nimbuzz was a country it would be bigger than Ireland, Norway, Switzerland,  the Netherlands and Hong Kong combined. Impressive, right ?

With around 100,000 people joining the Nimbuzz family every day, we are growing extremely fast, especially in regions like Asia-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, where Nimbuzz is the number one communication app for many , (e.g. Egypt and Saudi Arabia).

The Nimbuzz community is young, engaged and sharing a common passion for free mobile communication. With Nimbuzz on you mobile you will never be alone, if your friends are not online you can always visit the Nimbuzz chat-rooms and meet new friends to chat with.

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Being smack in the middle of next generation mobile communications we want to reveal the trends we see emerging from our global user survey with 48,000 respondents.

Based on our findings people in the West (Europe, North America), using Nimbuzz on their mobile, prefer asynchronous (text messaging) means of communication, as opposed to respondents from MENA (Syria, Libya, Saudia Arabia, Egypt), who prefer synchronous (voice calls) ways of mobile communication.

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