Samsung launches ChatOn messenger

Samsung made stunning revelation by declaring the launch of its possess cross-platform messaging service called Ch@tOn.  It will be accessible in more than 120 countries and also sustaining approximately not more or more than 62 languages and will be functioning on approximately each and all device from facet phones to Smartphones. A PC and Tablet client is also in function mode will be revealed at IFA.

Ch@tOn offers two choices for users varying on the kind of phone they are functioning. A fundamental functionality alternative is obtainable for characteristic phone users who favor uncomplicated and simple practice, permitting users to distribute and allocate text, pictures and calendars from an easy-to-access client.

Smartphone users can now have much to be happy as with advanced feature choices. They can permit users to look how often they talk with their friends using the Interaction Rank feature, and also as post comments on pal’s profile pages.

Users will be competent enough to talk face 2 face and one 2 one conversation, group chat, group messaging and even share images, videos, voice messages, contacts over the platform.

It will be accessible steadily crossways all devices such as Smartphone’s, tablets and laptops following the platform at IFA 2011. 

YouTube cracks Adobe’s Flash video format and transfers videos To WebM Format

In an attempt to develop the feature of its video streaming service YouTube, search engine giant Google schedules to transcode most accepted videos on the web site to its WebM format.By now almost thirty per cent of the web site has been transformed to the WebM format which by the way exercises an open compression technology and is also royalty free. While the alteration of the complete catalogue might take years, the fact that most popular videos have been transformed fundamentally and that the latest format covers almost 99 per cent of YouTube viewing.



This decision by Google comes at a time when they have stopped using the H.264 standard from its Chrome web browser. The H.264 standard is reportedly preferential by technology majors Apple and Microsoft at the same time as Google it seems is at the present appears at chasing an open standard.

This move will directly or indirectly also is expected to unfavorably influence the popularity of Adobe’s Flash video format while Google schedules to transfer the entire old videos present in Flash format to the WebM standard.



As all knows that there is supremacy of YouTube in online video streaming market, over time the reputation of Flash is going to take a noteworthy hit, more so with YouTube firming up strategy to increase its own HTML5 video player.