While doing mobile payments, consumers trust credit cards sucha as Visa, MasterCard and American Express over technology brands, including Facebook, Google and Apple, according to a recent study conducted by Ogilvy & Mather.

In the study, 500 U.S. online users were asked to select as many brands as they wanted in answering the question, “Who would you trust with mobile payments?”

GLMPS is an iPhone camera app for photo sharing. It allows users to capture an image and then share it with their friends on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. GLMPS can also capture five seconds of the video that precedes the shot. So instead of just sharing a static image, users could share a snippet of an actual moment. Source

The British Library is set to make digital copies of 40,000 classic novels, historical accounts and poems that will be readily available for the Apple iPad tablet. The British Library 19th Century Historical App, created in collaboration with software media firm Bibliolabs, offers iPad users a range of classic works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe and many, many others as well as a fair few long-forgotten works, including Victorian travel writing, poetry and scientific texts. Source

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) that nationally operates its telecom services under the MTS brand with over 12 million wireless customers, announced ‘MTS Monsoon Dhamaka’, an exciting proposition for its prepaid voice customers in Karnataka circle. Both existing and new MTS customers across the circle stand to win a host of exciting prizes.

To be a part of this initiative, new customers just need to buy the MTS colour handset worth Rs 599 with connection, while the existing customers can participate by recharging their number with Rs 51, Rs 101, or Rs 201. The entries will remain open till 31st August 2011. The eligible customers will receive a pre-recorded voice prompt within 24 hours asking a simple question with 4 options to choose from. Customers, who answer correctly, will enter the “Monsoon Dhamaka” initiative. A computer generated lucky draw will be conducted every week on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th August 2011. A total of 214 Lucky customers will win from a range of exciting prizes.[source]

Google confirmed in a blog post on Friday that its two services, Google Health and Google PowerMeter are both officially dead. The Google Health and Google PowerMeter services were launched in 2008 and 2009 respectively with a hope to make a serious impact on healthcare and people’s power usage. But neither saw the level of adoption that made them worth maintaining over the long term. As a result, the company is giving users an opportunity to download their information before shutting the services down for good. [source]

In a first for any Internet company, Google hit one billion unique visitors in May in the United States, according to the results of a comScore report. According to the comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report for May 2011, Google Sites scored Explicit Core Search Share percent of 65.5%, Yahoo! Sites scored 15.9% and Microsoft Sites 14.1%. [source]

To address the requirements of the SMBs in Kochi better, Microsoft will work directly with select partners and distributors in Kochi. The engagement, under which Microsoft partners will replicate Microsoft’s direct work in upcountry markets, will help address 4 million SMBs across the country in 18 months. According to a recent Microsoft SMB Insight Report, SMBs are indicating an intention to leverage technology to reduce costs and Microsoft will work with them in Kochi to make their business processes more efficient and improve their employee productivity. via [MS India].

National Geographic Channel will now connect with the over 72 million Tamil speaking community across Tamil Nadu, after successfully connecting with audience in Telugu and Bengali less than a year back.

National Geographic Channel through the 24 hour Tamil feed of its fast paced, youthful and edgy programming will showcase their award winning properties across science, technology, history, culture, nature and wildlife. As a part of the aggressive regional strategy of the channel, Nat Geo is now present in Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi apart from English.[source]

Paypal sues Google claiming that Google stole its technology for turning smartphones into digital wallets. PayPal alleges that Google obtained trade secrets from Osama Bedier, a former PayPal executive who is now Google’s vice president of payments.

Google intends to launch Google Wallet in the US in the summer on mobile phones that use its Android operating system.[source]

BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet is being prepared to be launched in India on May 18, RIM may launch the event with Airtel, reports. [via]