Nimbuzz, the mobile social messaging application for cellphone is ready for a download on an Android OS with a number of rocking features that have the capability to make Nimbuzz one of the most admired message applications out there. That happens after the Symbian version, the iPhone VoIP app and the TG01 version.

It comes with a smart buddy list layout which displays the avatar and presence information in one in combination with community and resource information.

Another great feature is a time sensitive user interface where a light touch will open your buddy’s profile and a stronger touch will instantly begin a new chat.

There are home screen notifications which make you aware of any activities (incoming chats for instance) while Nimbuzz runs in the background. Just in case you wish to switch between 2G, 3G and WiFi networks, there is an auto-reconnect feature that makes things easier for you.

Since the Android users are getting a chance to use Nimbuzz for the very first time they get a unique opportunity where only Nimbuzz integrates Skype IM and local social networks such as Hyves in the Netherlands.

Looks like a nice thing to play with, eh? It’s free to download at the Android Marketplace.

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Is Apple finally targeting the lucrative Social Networking business? The big question has a lot of confusing answers and the latest speculation to add to that long list of answers — after the Paypal killer, is that Apple is keen on tying iTunes with a social application that should release to the market in the near future (whatever that means).

The application will be similar to Yahoo One Connect and will be capable of consolidating all social networking services.

As a consequence you will be able to broadcast what music you are listening to and you could even share music with people on your network. Not just that, you could connect with your friend’ friends and update all your statuses at one go. In combination with iTunes 9, your music status could also be broadcasted.

The problem with all these is that nothing is confirmed, which just leaves us in a state of jeopardy for now.

[via BGR]

Is there is an Apple PayPal Killer in the ranks!? That’s the question on everyone’s minds these days.

After being rumored to come up with the Apple Tablet and a bunch of new iPhones, the newest thing we’re itching to know is if Apple is planning a service that would allow the iTunes Store account holders to make purchases on participating third-party sites across the Internet.

Considering that behind the rumor are the Wall Street gossips, you’ll have to take it with a pinch of salt before getting too excited. There’s no official word from Apple, but if we’re to consider the success of Paypal and the fact that Facebook recently introduced a “pay with Facebook” feature, Cupertino may want to cash in on their amazing user base in the online payments business.

Could it be that Apple depends too much on their hardware products (iPhones, Macs, iPods) — which may see a drop in sales, soon — and they’re looking for a way to diversify their business?

No matter whatever the reason is, we’d love to get it tested out.

[via BusinessWire]

Google has acquired On2 Technologies in a stock for stock transaction which will see each outstanding share of On2 common stock being converted into $0.60 worth of Google class A common stock.

The overall acquisition cost for Google is $106 million and Google has taken this step to thoroughly use On2 futuristic video compression techniques for its own expansion. YouTube currently lacks ways that could assist High-Definition HD Video conversions and compressions, which means that the deal is much needed considering the bright future Google sees for their service.

The deal is expected to close by the fourth-quarter of this year and the investors look already pleased as the On2 stock closed 62% over the premium at the close of yesterday.

Google is certainly feeling the pressure with its contemporaries expanding its domains and this deal will have surely relaxed the nerves a bit. Now it can further evolve the immensely successful YouTube to newer heights.

[via TechCrunch]

Yesterday was probably a day were you had to unwillingly keep away from your favorite social networking site, Twitter. Hell you were being restricted in opening your Facebook or your Livejournal account … Getting back to Twitter, the glitch was a courtesy of a denial-of service attack but thankfully the service is now back-on-track. The recovery though hasn’t been fully made as there is still degraded service for some people.

The ddos has been defined as a single massive coordinated attack and Twitter has been working closely with other companies and services affected to recover completely. As a motivation behind this event, Twitter prefers not to speculate. The good news however, is that no user data was compromised in this attack and that is as far as we should be bothered.

Just to clear out things — it is an activity about saturating a service with so many requests that it cannot respond to legitimate requests thus succeeding in denying service to the intended customers. This attack has made Twitter realize that there is still a lot of work to be done to safeguard the site against such attacks and the company fully acknowledges the fact.

So we can’t help but wonder if Twitter isn’t too big for the infrastructure they’re using at the moment. It’s somehow unacceptable for a site at this size to go down on a ddos attack! We hope for the better!

24.com have successfully secured the 24.mobi mobile domain name, making it the first South African company and first publisher worldwide to be awarded a .mobi domain name with only two alphanumeric characters.

dotMobi, the company behind .mobi — the only Internet address created specifically for locating content that works on all mobile phones – began allocating .mobi domain names with one and two alphanumeric characters earlier this year. dotMobi is one of the very few registries who have made one and two character names available.

“South Africa is one of the leading countries in adopting the .mobi domain. That’s why it’s exciting to see South Africa’s 24.com becoming the first news portal in the world to advertise its mobile site with a two-digit .mobi domain — 24.mobi. Like its PC sister, 24.mobi is bound to be a major destination for all South Africans to get relevant news and lifestyle information,” said Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi domain that helps consumers find content that works on mobile phones, regardless of operator or handset.

“24.com is pleased to have been able to secure the 24.mobi domain.” said JP Farinha, CEO of 24.com. “It is an important enabler in extending our leadership position from the PC to the mobile Internet, and allows us to present a clear mobile brand to our audience. We are constantly looking at ways to improve the mobile Internet experience for our customers and the .mobi domain is a great way to do that.”

(Via Ronald/24Labs)

Microsoft and Google always try to get the better of each other with launches and campaigns brought forward with a targeted motive. Google Search was targeted with the Microsoft Yahoo amalgamation, Google targeted the Internet Explorer with Chrome and now it intends to challenge the might of the Microsoft Office with its ‘Going Google’ Campaign.

This campaign wants to inspire people to use or rather switch to the Google Applications. For that purpose Google came up with a series of advertisements that will tell you how and why around 3,000 organizations are signing up to use Google Apps each day. Advertisements that will show on billboards on four major U.S. highways for a month.

The environmental aspect will also be taken care of as the vinyl used for creating these messages will be recycled or reused into either computer bags or shopping bags.

The 2010 version of the Microsoft Office is already in the ranks and Google wants to give it their best shot to curtail the sales of the upcoming version and that is why it is busy telling people ‘why it is better than the Office’.

Other promotional platforms will include Twitter and there is also ‘spread the word’ campaign in place.

[via TechCrunch]

The FCC has been questioning who has been behind the termination and rejection of Google applications from the App Store — to be more exact the rejection of the Google Voice Mobile (a VOIP solution for mobile phones that offers free text messages and really cheap international calls) by Apple, from last week.

It is pretty obvious that Apple was prompted to react the way it did owing to the persuasion coming from the AT&T camp but it never realized that they’ll have to come up with an explanation for all these. The answer could be that Apple is yet to recognize Voice as an application and not as a service, but then why did Skype get a preferential treatment?

Also, there is chance that both Apple and AT&T want to curtail the rise of the VoIP inside of WiFi hotspots on mobile devices. But then again, the allowance to Skype hints double-standards for Skype has a business favor as it is purchasing some of their US termination from AT&T.

The answers sure might be kept confidential but we will still get a lot to know from this development and we are delighted over FCC to stamp its authority by intruding in a way it always should.

[via Pulver]