Samsung is all set to launch a new mobile messaging service called ChatON. The service is scheduled to debut at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany, the first week of September. The app is essentially a group chat app that combines texts, images and video messaging from Samsung’s Bada OS,  iOS, Android and BlackBerry. So, through this move Samsung...

Research in Motion (RIM) announced BBM Music, a BlackBerry Messenger-based music service. According to RIM, BBM Music is a cloud-based music service that enables BlackBerry Messenger users to discover and share music through a community-based music library. Research in Motion, (RIM) Blackberry’s parent company, is hoping the social aspects of the service will appeal...

Skype announced about its plan to acquire GroupMe, a group messaging smartphone app for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7 that lets you create group texts, make conference calls, and share photos and your location. GroupMe is just about a year old, started by Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht. While Skype did not say how much it is going to pay. But the...

According to a Bloomberg report, in the next four months, Google will be testing its Near Field Communications (NFC) payment systems, in the New York and San Francisco areas.  Google plans to pay VeriFone Systems Inc. to install thousands of cash register systems made specifically for the use of NFC technology. Google’s new service may group a user’s financial...

Market research firm ComScore has said in a report that Android has a 26 percent market share in the US, snatching the second position after Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry while Apple was relegated to the third spot with 25 percent market share. In number terms, 61.5 million people owned smartphones in the US during the three months ending in November 2010, up...

Google has launched a location-sharing Latitude app for the iPhone, Google Latitude app for iPhone, which lets you share your location with friends. Google Latitude lets a user share his or her physical location with friends, and locate friends on a map, the company said in their official blog. Though Latitude first launched in early 2009 via smartphones and a desktop...

The disappointment with the first Tablet launched by Sprint Nextel Corporation is the sole compatibility with 3G. Sprint based in Overland Park, Kansas, is the third largest wireless communication network in the US which has been providing 4G technology since 2008. Sprint is planning to cover up the lack in its first Tablet launch introducing a Tablet with 4G support in...

BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired Swedish company The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), an interface specialist that played a part in the development of the basic appearance of several Android phones. As RIM’s smartphone market share is falling, it is vital to acquire companies like TAT for a brighter future. By downloading the TAT software, even those...

Dish subscribers can watch live satellite TV on their iPhones, iPads, and Android handsets at no extra cost. It appears to be a trend now with the news following announcement from Verizon and Motorola that they are working on a mobile-TV tablet. Dish Network Corp. will offer the feature on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry devices in September and on Android...