Google Wallet launched yesterday but with only the Nexus S 4G handset supported so far and no mention of the NFC sticker system revealed last May, reports SlashGear. The stickers were originally intended as a workaround for those without the WiMAX Android phone but now Google’s Wallet site and the official launch announcement are conspicuously vague on the stickers. READ MORE
Google launched its mobile payment service today, Google Wallet. If you haven’t heard about it, that’s because Google wanted it like that. READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition is showcasing entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups, all vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Tuesday featured three more sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Customer-Friendly Enterprise, Local Networks and Increasing Understanding; here are the start-ups presented in session six: Increasing Understanding. READ MORE
If you travel to remote places but need business-critical access to e-mail or the Internet, satellite phone provider Iridium Communications has introduced a new product that might be able to give it to you. READ MORE
Mobile business is booming. Between eliminating unlimited service, exacting huge early cancellation fees, collecting on in-app payments and soon providing mobile payment systems, revenues are looking up for mobile providers. READ MORE
Forget those small gray Dish Network satellites you see mounted and hooked into the building. It seems Dish Network may soon fore go any of those old-fashioned connections. READ MORE
Samsung has announced that it will be rolling out a new messaging service that will allow users to chat across multiple devices, reports SlashGear. ChatON, which will compete with iMessage on iOS 5 and the BlackBerry Messenger service, supports photos, video, voice messaging, location, contact sharing, calendar, and other multimedia content. READ MORE
You would think that Research In Motion’s tablet, the PlayBook, would accommodate email as nicely as the BlackBerrys handle it. Not so, and BlackBerry had to go back to the drawing board to fix the problem. Next month it will issue an update that corrects the situation. READ MORE
Evernote has added another app in its arsenal of note-taking tools. The company announced that it has acquired Skitch, an OS X image-sharing app. Skitch, which currently sells for $20 in the Mac App Store, lets users add visual notes to images than can then be saved to a PC or uploaded. READ MORE
Swype users are in for a real treat. The touchscreen keyboard app for Android phones is getting a major update. Just out of Beta, Swype “gestures” will let users more easily cut/copy/paste text, connect directly to Twitter, and access and search Google Maps—essentially, users will be able to access an almost limitless set of gesture functionalities using Swype. READ MORE
