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Verizon's just made what it calls a comprehensive mobile resource management solution to manage workers in the field available to business customers. Called Field Force Manager, the service is now available on the BlackBerry Curve 8330 – with support for other BlackBerry models scheduled to follow.

Through the Web application, a main office can map locations of employees, jobs and other activities in real-time; schedule and dispatch jobs; and receive fleet, job and employee reports. Managers can also capture customer service requests, dispatch field personnel and track job progress in near real-time.

Field Force Manager also allows remote employees to submit timecards, customer and job completion information to the business office, plus get turn-by-turn driving directions to new jobs from their BlackBerry Curve.

The solution starts at $15 per month. It comes with unlimited e-mail on a BlackBerry Internet Service only plan.

This isn't the only new BlackBerry service Verizon launched this week. It also rolled out a Mobile Banking Application for the aforementioned Curve 8330, in addition to the 8830 World Edition and Pearl 8130. With the service, users can check their account balance and transaction history; transfer funds between accounts at the same bank; view and pay bills and look up the last five transactions completed on the device.

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More on BlackBerry Curve 8330
With the Curve series, RIM brought many of the multimedia advancements first found in the BlackBerry Pearl to a full-size RIM smartphone.

It also sports a QWERTY thumb-keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera for picture and video, QVGA screen, and Bluetooth 2.0. High-capacity microSDHC memory cards and Verizon's 3G EV-DO cellular-wireless data network are also supported.

The Curve 8330 weighs 4 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches.

Its battery, a 1150 mAH type, is supposed to last for 260 minutes talk and 264 hours standby time.

This Curve model also integrates a GPS chip to support location-based services like Field Force Manager (of course) and Verizon's VZ Navigator mapping service.