Samsung has announced a new messaging platform of their own dubbed as ChatOn. Unlike BlackBerry Messenger or iMessages, Samsung’s ChatOn works on multiple platforms, thus allowing communication with a user using any device. ChatOn will be launched in September in over 120 countries and will support sending data like texts, images, video, contacts etc.

Samsung will release two variants of the ChatOn app which will be meant for feature phone users and smartphone users. ChatOn on feature phone will allow to do basic functionality like sharing of text, images, calendars and contacts but the functionality will be greatly enhanced in the smartphone version that will bring features like Interaction Rank, user profile comments and Animation Messages.

Samsung will showcase the service at IFA 2011.

[Via Sammy Hub]

Google has announced a new initiative dubbed as the Cloud Print. The service will allow users to print their important documents from anywhere without needing to install the printer drivers.

It currently works on smartphones, Windows PC and Chrome OS and after the setup, user can go to their Gmail account from their iPhone or Android browser and select “print.”

Users can learn more about the service from the link below.

Google Cloud Print

It’s curtains for Nokia’s Ovi Music Unlimited service in 27 countries. Few countries that Nokia will continue to sell devices bundled with the the yearly unlimited music service will be China, India and Indonesia whereas Brazil, Turkey and South Africa consumers will enjoy 6-months subscription service.

Ovi Music Unlimited was Nokia’s way to give consumers a year-full of legit music from labels like Vivendi’s Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music Group and Sony Music.

The service was touted as an iTunes challenger but has been crippled due to one major reason – DRM. The songs were DRMed, which means it won’t work on any other device than Nokia and is restricted to a single PC and Nokia phone at one time.

Good thing is that Nokia acknowledges this fact and has confirmed to add DRM-free music to its store but the bad thing is a similar service with DRM-free music won’t come anytime soon.

For users who are using the unlimited music service will be able to continue the service until their subscription runs out.

[Via Reuters]

MobileMe Mail web app has been revamped by Apple and is currently available in beta for existing MobileMe users. Users can request for an invitation and with the new beta, they’ll get access to a better layout suited to the target device, faster receiving and sending of emails, improved SSL security and better filtering of email messages.

However, the service is not free and a user needs to pay $99 a year to avail Apple’s push service.

MobileMe Mail

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Nokia today announced the launch of Comes with Music service in the world’s biggest mobile market. The all-you-can download service will be known as Yue Sui Xiang in China and though rest of the markets have DRM-ed access to the service, Chinese users will get DRM-free music, allowing them to download and play unlimited legal music on number of devices.

The initial phones that will take advantage of the service will be Nokia X6 32GB and Nokia X6 16GB, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5330, Nokia 5800w, Nokia 6700s, Nokia E52 and Nokia E72i.

Mike McGuire, Research Vice President from Gartner feels Nokia’s move of providing DRM-free music in emerging markets is crucial for music industry.

“By getting the Comes with Music service up and running in China, and with India coming on shortly, Nokia is taking important steps in continuing to expand its Comes With Music ecosystem. It’s also playing an important role in developing compelling alternatives for both artists and labels, and consumers.”

Press Release

Nokia today unveiled its new mobile financial service dubbed as the Nokia Money. The disparity of 4 billion mobile phones and 1.6 billion bank accounts has made Nokia to provide basic financial services that can be accessed from mobile phones. Users will be able to do a lot of things like sending or receiving money that can be collected or deposited at Nokia Money agents, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, recharge mobile accounts and more.

Nokia Money service will be operated in co-operation with Nokia invested Obopay, which is a global mobile payment solution. In fact, we think this service will work in a way like mChek and ngpay and the only novel factor are the agents.

Nokia is planning to show the service at the Nokia World on Sept 2 & 3 and will roll out gradually from early 2010.

Press Release

UK residents will be the first one to get Nokia’s Music service called as Comes with Music. This new service gives people a year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog with the ability to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over.

Nokia has appointed Carphone Warehouse as UK’s exclusive pre-pay channel and they’ll be selling Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phones to promote the new service. Rest of the details are pretty scarce which will be revealed by Nokia at an event next month.

Press Release