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Facebook has announced its Messenger service which is available for both iPhone and Android devices. It offers instant messaging among your Facebook friends directly on your mobile.

So what makes it different from the Messaging via native Facebook app? It promises faster access with supposedly instant delivery and response. Basically taking on the likes of Whatsapp and Kik. The key differenciator we can see is that your conversations are both available on both web and app. This means no messages to lose in case of hard resets or when switching devices.

In addition, you can do group conversations, enable locations and attach photos. The Messenger app is now available and you can get it by searching for “Facebook Messenger”.

iPhone users can get it at iTunes while Android fan can download it from the Android Market.

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For those who can’t or don’t want to wait for the official release of the Facebook app for iPad. We’ve added a video that guides you through the steps required to install the unreleased app in your iPad. Again, we’re cautioning you to proceed at your own risk. Video after the jump.

Apparently Facebook is working on an HTML5-rich iPad app and TechCrunch claims that they’ve been using the app for hours now. There’s no official word from Facebook on this but the screen grabs look real and they look good. Real good.

For a screen grab smorgasbord of the yet to be released (as well as confirmed) official Facebook app for iPad, head on over to TechCrunch.

If you have a jailbroken iPad, you should be able to access this hidden Facebook app for iPad. All you need to do is change the UIDeviceFamily to 2 for iPhone on the Facebook app. A word of caution, proceed at your own risk.

It’s no secret that iTunes is due for a UI upgrade, and this should come true with the release of iTunes 11. A reliable source of ours has stated that iTunes 11, the next major update to iTunes, will be revamped from the ground up.

The basic layout of the iTunes UI hasn’t changed since the first version. This new update will have a completely different UI and better iCloud integration. iCloud is also going to be more closely integrated with iTunes. Rather than the iTunes Store being essentially a web browser, the Store will actually be integrated into the entire app— much like Spotify is currently.

Are you eager for iTunes 11? Are you going to use iCloud for syncing your data when it releases this Fall?

As Google promised in May, Google TV is about to get a taste of some sweet Honeycomb. According to some reports, users are already seeing their Google TV devices appear under “My Devices” on the Market’s web app. This is most likely Google’s handiwork as they put the final touches before rolling out the update.

Further proving Google TV 2.0 is upon us, some Android enthusiasts over at GTVhacker have managed to update their Logitech Revue to Android 3.1. How did they do this? We’re asking ourselves the same question. However, they did post a photo as proof and promised to shed more light on how they did it over the next few days. We can’t wait.

Looking at the photo from GTVhacker, you can see not a lot has changed since Google first showed Google TV 2.0 to us back in May. That blue bar along the bottom is back once again. I’m guessing this will appear by pressing the “Home” button on your Google TV remote. As you might remember, we recently saw this bar thanks to a leak via Geek.com. Although, this time some of the icons seem to have gotten a bit of polish by Duarte and co. Always a good thing.

The space above that blue bar will supposedly house widgets, as demonstrated at Google I/O. It’s still unknown whether or not users will have access to various home screens like we have on phones and tablets. While that might seem like an obvious thing to do, I’m not so sure Google will do it for Google TV. But I could be wrong.

In summary, here’s everything we know Google TV 2.0 will have for sure:
* Access to the Android Market
* Widgets
* Notifications
* Improved Media Player
* Overhauled user interface
* Google TV emulator for developers
* ADB support
* Support for USB devices like game controllers and keyboards
* Honeycomb’s graphics engine
* Improved performance and stability
* ARM support

That should be just about enough to turn those Google TV doubters into believers. Now we just need to sit and wait for Google to roll this out. Hopefully that’ll happen some time next week.

Touch screens? That’s sooooo 2011. In the future, we can launch apps simply by making a few silly hand gestures. Well, that might be the future Qualcomm has in mind thanks to some new gesture related IP’s the company recently acquired from GestureTek. Steve Mollenkopf executive vice president of group president of Qualcomm announced via press release:

“Applications processors are enabling a range of new ways for consumers to interface with their home entertainment and mobile devices. Our acquisition of key technology and assets from GestureTek will strengthen Qualcomm’s smartphone product portfolio and enable our customers to launch products with new and compelling user experiences.”

With all the mobile processor competition going around these days, Qualcomm may be trying to get an early leg-up on the competition with some gesture enabled Snapdragon chips. The new gesture recognition tech will by integrated into Qualcomm’s current and next-gen Snapdragon processors.

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