While messaging app MessageMe just raised $10 million in funding, that announcement was missing key info about the app’s growth. Now the company has come forth with some new stats that are impressive including that the service now has 5 million users just 75 days after launch.

Competing with popular apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, MessageMe offers iOS and Android applications that let you share rich messages and content with family and friends. On top of standard text, you can also send images, YouTube videos, iTunes tracks, voice recordings, and more. Ten days after launch, MessageMe users were uploading two images per second. Today, they are uploading eight images per second. More than 1,500 notifications are sent to Message users each second. Read More

Samsung is expected to soon bring the new Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean wrapped firmware update for Galaxy S III smartphones. SamMobile got their hands on a test build of the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean firmware update that packs a few software features of the Galaxy S4 Smartphone. Along with that several other functions and under the hood improvements will be added.

Samsung may have impressed several million with the new Galaxy S4. Meanwhile, the company is also going to take care of Galaxy S III owners with a new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update. This update will also bundle a few software features present in the Galaxy S4 Smartphone.

The lockscreen will be updated and will get two unlock modes – Ripple and Light. The ripple effect will be improved compared to the current version. Even the personal message box on the homescreen will be available wherein users will be able to set a custom text with a coloured background.

Adapt Display and Professional Photo are the new Screen modes that will be added to the existing modes. The settings app will have a tabbed user interface, just like the one in Galaxy S4.

The voice-driven digital assistant system has also been updated with the new S-Voice. Apart from that, the update will also bring new voice control that will let the user control several parts of the smartphone interface. The Gallery mode will have a white background. Many more features have been packaged in the leaked build.

From this build we assume that the final build could arrive in a couple of weeks, though Samsung’s plans are unknown.

More software vulnerabilities exist in iOS compared to the other operating systems, and a SourceFire executive said this is due to the iPhone’s popularity, and Apple’s strictly controlled app store which drives cyber criminals to find vulnerabilities in the operating system instead.

According to SourceFire’s “25 Years of Vulnerabilities” study released in early March, which analyzed vulnerabilities from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) data and National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the majority of mobile phone vulnerabilities have been found in Apple’s iPhone. The database provides 25 years of information on vulnerabilities to assess, spanning from 1988.

210 vulnerabilities were found in Apple’s smartphone, giving iOS 81 percent of the mobile phone vulnerability market share. This is more than the total number of vulnerabilities in Android-based, Windows-based and BlackBerry-based smartphones combined, at 19 percent. Read More

Blackberry is planning to win the battle again with some great announcements last week on its Jam conference. Blackberry is planning to launch its Blackberry Messenger (BBM) is a messaging app open for multiple platforms. It is not only a messaging app but also a social networking service provider app  with channel features.

The company is constantly working on Blackberry mobile development by adding and enhancing it’s  features and services. According to the chief executive Thorsten Heins, Blackberry is planning to make a messaging app for multiple platforms across the globe. This free BBM messaging app will initially available for Android and IOS platforms soon in this summer. Initially BBM will offer only messaging services for mobile platforms but soon it will allow sharing voice and screen.

He added that BBM will support the Android devices with ICE cream sandwich and the above versions and IOS-6 for iphones. This app is free for all and will cover all the other mobile platforms soon as a premier messaging app around the globe. Read More

Japanese researchers have developed two new robots that can warn people if they suffer from bad body odour or stinky breath. The researchers have come out with two robots, a female human and a dog, that can tell you without mincing words if your breath or feet smell bad.

The robots make snarky remarks and exaggerated reactions to encourage offenders to do something about their odour.

One of the robots resembles a woman’s head and ranks the operator’s breath, declaring an “emergency” if it falls into the worst category.

The female robot, Kaori-chan, has brown hair and blue eyes. When a person breathes in her face, she analyses and quantifies components in their breath, and evaluates the smell on a scale of one to four. If their breath smells good, Kaori-chan says, “It smells like citrus!” Read More