Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers from around the world together for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online chat (video, audio and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat by initiating another random connection.

Now you can get the iPhone version of the Chatroulette that let you Random chat with strangers.  The app is free and was made by SKJM. It uses the iPhone 4's front camera and makes an ad hoc connection with another camera on the network. It works over Wi-Fi.

Thanks to Crungear for this update

NTP is doing it again, if you haven't hear about NTP, NTP won a case against RIM a few years ago over Wireless Email Patents.  It's now trying to do the same thing to Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola, hoping to get some green papers to the its bank.

NTP Incorporated is a privately-held intellectual property firm based in Richmond, Virginia that was founded in 1992 by the late inventor Thomas Campana, Jr. and his partners. NTP's intellectual property includes patents relating to technologies involving wireless email which Mr. Campana developed as lead inventor in 1990.

Here's the press release

NTP Incorporated, the company founded by Tom Campana, the inventor of wireless email, yesterday filed lawsuits against Apple, Inc., Google Inc., HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Motorola, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for infringing NTP's eight patents related to the delivery of electronic mail over wireless communications systems. Each of the defendants is a manufacturer or developer of either wireless handheld devices or software applications used in the delivery of email across wireless communications systems.

Donald E. Stout, NTP's co-founder, said, "Use of NTP's intellectual property without a license is just plain unfair to NTP and its licensees. Unfortunately, litigation is our only means of ensuring the inventor of the fundamental technology on which wireless email is based, Tom Campana, and NTP shareholders are recognized, and are fairly and reasonably compensated for their innovative work and investment. We took the necessary action to protect our intellectual property."

NTP is best known for its long litigation and eventual settlement with Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry® wireless devices. In that litigation, all the claims asserted at trial were found to be valid and willfully infringed by RIM, and the verdict was ultimately affirmed on appeal by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Spurred by that litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) moved to re-examine NTP's patents. In December 2009, in spite of the massive effort by the USPTO to overturn NTP's patents, the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals (USPTO Board) ruled that 67 of NTP's patent claims in four patents are valid, including three claims that RIM was found to have infringed. Infringement of a single claim is all that is needed for a patent to be deemed violated.

NTP has also filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn the USPTO's remaining rejections of NTP's patent claims.

"The filing of suit today is necessary to ensure that those companies who are infringing NTP's patents will be required to pay a licensing fee," Mr. Stout continued. "In view of the USPTO Board's ruling, the debate over whether Mr. Campana was an originator in the field of wireless email is over. No patents in U.S. history have received as much scrutiny as NTP's patents. We are delighted that the USPTO Board has recognized the groundbreaking innovation of Mr. Campana by confirming 67 of NTP's patent claims. We are also confident that the USPTO's rejections, which are on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will be overturned."

Source: PRnewswire

Mozilla announced that they have submitted "Firefox Home" to the apple store.  Firefox Home is a free application that provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Firefox Home enables access to the websites you need on the go by picking up where you left off with your desktop browsing.

Firefox Home uses your browser data, securely synced from Firefox on your desktop to the cloud, to let you search and browse it quickly and efficiently. You can view the sites you want directly in Firefox Home, open them in Mobile Safari or share them with friends via e-mail. Your Firefox data is private and only you have access to it.

Check out the video below to see features of the Firefox home.  It's not been accepted yet by Apple, but they will let everyone know when it is.

source: engadget

No official words coming out from HTC or Sprint, but folks are theunwired.net was able to get a live pictures of the upcoming HTC Evo 4G running Sling Player.

Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile, the mobile client for the company's Slingboxes, is already available for a while for several mobile platforms like Windows Mobile, the iPhone or BlackBerry, not Android wasn't one of the options, but looking at these screenshots, I think it's safe to say Android version is coming soon.

Still no words on if the SlingPlay mobile will be running on Android as a independent app or will it depend on Flash Player for Android.

Definitely a great addition, just another excuse to get the HTC Evo 4G :)

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ZumoDrive offers free storage app for your smartphone and PC. Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre

What is ZumoDrive?

ZumoDrive is a personal content mover that easily gets ALL your content onto any of your devices, including your netbook, tablet and smartphone. With ZumoDrive, you can now take your music, photos, videos, documents and other files wherever you go regardless of where the files originated, how much on-device storage capacity is available, or whether you're online or off. We designed ZumoDrive to be extraordinarily simple to use, transparent when it comes to your device experience, and equally functional on whichever platforms your various devices may run on.

Check it out at http://www.zumodrive.com/tour

So far we have seen many third party twitter apps on the Android App market, but none are official.  Now that Twitter has release it's official twittter app on Android, would you get it?

Twitter for Android is a fantastic application to use, and sharing any link or photo is super simple too - just look for the share button in your favorite application and choose Twitter.

(The Twitter for Android app is available for phones running Android 2.1 and above - just scan the barcode to the right. Don't forget, you can always visit http://mobile.twitter.com/ on your phone to use Twitter)

source: http://mobile.twitter.com/

Skyfire makes your mobile internet experience richer, smarter and more fun!  Check out the latest version of Skyfire 2.0, it's currently the best browser available

Experience the world's hottest mobile browser with Skyfire 2.0 (BETA) for Android. Check out the all new SkyBar which features:

• VIDEO: magically offers up videos that appear as broken links on all other mobile browsers, enabling Flash video to play quickly and smoothly.

• EXPLORE: reads your mind and presents smart recommendations for related media content from sources such as YouTube, Twitter, Google, Digg and more.

• SHARE: makes browsing social, with one-click share features to help you get the word out.
  Other Skyfire 2.0 features

• Supports Flash web video with patent-pending adaptive streaming technology for smooth playback

• Pinch to zoom (on Android 2.0 and above)

• Multi-tab browsing - open up to eight windows and browse simultaneously using visual tabs

• Choose to load full desktop webpages or mobile optimized versions

• Clear session history easily upon exit to maintain anonymous browsing

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs escalated his fight with Adobe Systems Inc. over the software known as Flash, a battle that could shape the evolution of video and gaming on mobile devices.

Mr. Jobs-after months of criticism from Adobe and software developers for his company's decision to ban Flash from iPhones, iPods and iPads- Thursday took the unusual step of posting a lengthy essay on Apple's Web site criticizing Adobe's software as a flawed throwback to a time before smartphones caught the fancy of consumers.

"Flash was created during the PC era-for PCs and mice," Mr. Jobs wrote in an essay totaling more than 1,600 words. "The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards-all areas where Flash falls short."

source: wsj

In an average month during the December through February 2010 time period, 64.0 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 1.9 percentage points versus three months prior. Browsers were used by 29.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 2.4 percentage points), while subscribers who used downloaded applications made up 27.5 percent (up 1.8 percentage points). Access of social networking sites or blogs continued to grow, increasing 2.9 percentage points to 18.0 percent of mobile subscribers.

source: comscore

Today comScore released its February market share data for the US. Smartphone penetration is now 19 percent, with 45 million total smartphones now active in the US. Google's share jumped to 9 percent; however, RIM continues to lead with 42 percent market share.

Smartphones keeps on increasing market share as more people are moving to smartphones instead of traditional handsets. 

source: admob