Version 3.30 of the Berry411 mobile search tool is now available from the Berry411 download page.

The new version remembers the name and phone number of any business you call or add to your phone book using Berry411. The next time you search for the business, you can call the business directly from the search history without having to hit the web at all, or go directly to the driving directions and details page for that business without having to scroll through other results.

This means that getting information for your favorite businesses is even faster.

[You can see that the end game is that the local address book, local search, and search history blend into one seamless experience, though we still have a way to go before getting there. From a technical standpoint, the interesting feature in this release is the ability to update the Berry411 client search history from the B411 web site (but not any other web site, for security reasons.) I am toying with the idea of creating address packs that would populate your address book and/or search history with useful sets of businesses, such as the 800 numbers of all the US airline carriers for instance. Going with a flexible browser + scripting language approach for the results makes this sort of thing trivial to add.]