HTC’s Beats Electronics is tipped to acquire MOG, a music subscription service, for an undisclosed amount, according to a Reuters report. The two companies have been in talks for weeks and the acquisition could happen within the next fortnight. HTC has been rumored to launch its own music subscription service in order to differentiate its products from other Android vendors. (more…)Google+

Nuance announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Vlingo, a voice-to-text and voice recognition technology firm that was once the subject of a Nuance lawsuit. Nuance senior manager Mike Thompson said the decision was made after his company realized there’s a $5 billion market opportunity as demand increases for voice engine products such as Apple’s Siri voice engine, which is powered in part by Nuance technology. “Inspired by the introduction of services such as Apple’s Siri and our own Dr...

I have been using the Lumia 800, Nokia’s first flagship Windows Phone smartphone. for almost a week now and find it to be the most usable of the couple of Windows Phone smartphones from other vendors currently available in the market. Not only does the Lumia 800 have a better build quality, it also comes pre-installed with a turn-by-turn navigation app that can give voice prompts in Hindi. However, one killer service that won’t be available when the Lumia range is launched in India later in the co...

YouTube served up more than 20 billion video views during the month of October — 49.1% of all 42.6 billion video views on the web during the month. The research was recently published by comScore, which also found that Google and YouTube had a total unique audience of 161 million viewers, nearly three times that of Facebook, which served up the second most video views during the month. Facebook had 59 million unique viewers and 346 million video views. VEVO, the popular music video website, was the No.3 sit...

Google on Wednesday took the wraps off a new and improved music service. Building onto “Music Beta by Google,” Google has launched Google Music, a publicly available cloud-based music services that will be free to users in the United States. Google Music users can add up to 20,000 songs from their local libraries to the cloud and stream them to any number of supported devices over the Internet. “Pinned” albums and songs are downloaded to devices and cached for local playback without th...

Research In Motion (RIM) announced a few minutes ago its services in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa are currently operating normally, via its Twitter page. Earlier in the day, subscribers in these regions reported delays in delivery of emails and BlackBerry Messenger messages. A few hours ago, RIM announced it was investigating reports of delay, sparking fears of a repeat of last month’s outage that left millions without BlackBerry’s online service for days. However, this time RIM ruled out...

Research In Motion (RIM) has confirmed to AllThingsD that some users in India, Europe, Middle East and Africa are experience delays in the BlackBerry services. The BlackBerry manufacturer, however, denies it being a system-wide outage like the one that lasted three days and eventually resulted in a global outage for a few hours. Last time’s outage also initially affected the same regions, which would point the cause of the current delay to the same server in UK that was responsible for the earlier servi...

Uh, oh! BlackBerry users are facing delay in email and BBM message delivery. It is not clear how widespread the delay is but we are already getting reports from India and UK about users complaining about BBM messages not getting delivered and delays in getting mails. RIM has promptly sent out a Tweet it is investigating the matter, a lesson it learnt from last month’s outage where it kept mum for the first few hours. We are following this closely and will be updating this post as it develops. Do comment...

Beginning January 1st, Google will start charging a fee to developers and websites that frequently access its Google Maps API service, BBC reported recently. Developers will apparently be charged $4 for every 1,000 views after Google Maps is accessed more than 25,000 times in a single 24-hour period. BBC said Google expects the changes will only affect 0.35% of its user base. “We understand that the introduction of these limits may be concerning,” Google Maps product manager Thor Mitchell said. &#...

The eventual arrival of iMessage on OS X, in some form, is almost a foregone conclusion at this point, but a new report claims to confirm that Apple is indeed working on bringing it to the Mac platform alongside AirPlay Mirroring. Citing multiple anonymous sources, 9to5 Mac says Apple is already hard at work bringing the services to OS X, though it is apparently unclear whether or not the efforts will bear fruit. AirPlay Mirroring will theoretically allow OS X users to mirror their Mac display wirelessly to a...

We’ve been big fans of WhatsApp’s cross-platform messaging service ever since it first launched, and directly outside of Apple’s own iMessage or RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger service, WhatsApp is our favorite mobile solution. We’re apparently not the only ones who think so, as WhatsApp just told us that the company is now delivering more than 1 billion messages each day, a huge milestone. Here’s a quote from WhatsApp team:The mobile messaging market is moving, choices around p...

Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis on Thursday issued a public apology to BlackBerry subscribers around the world following a major service outage that has now entered its fourth day. “I apologize for the service outages this week,” Lazaridis said in a video posted to YouTube by RIM. “We’ve let many of you down.” He continued, “You expect better from us. And I expect better from us.” After initially believing the issue causing the outage was resolved late Monday...