The messaging app imo instant messenger for iPad, by imo.im, has been with support for group chat and more.

With imo instant messenger, it's easy to stay in touch with friends on your existing IM accounts. imo currently supports Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Myspace, Hyves, and Vkontakte.

• No need to create a new account with imo
• Option to link accounts or save passwords to log in faster
• Push notifications sent for 72 hours after you close the app
• Searchable chat history on the app and on imo.im
• Links from buddies open directly in app
• Voice IM
• Concurrent sessions on different devices
• Favorite buddies and optional buddy icons

The update includes:

• Support for imo and Skype Group Chat
• Allow sending pictures and videos
• Added a menu to select emoticons
• Allows user to page through chat history from chat window
• Added browsing of chat history with any particular buddy
• Added protocols Hyves and Vkontakte
• Improved look of tabs

imo instant messenger for iPad is available for free. Screenshots after the break.

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Here’s another app to add to your Shark Week collection – SeaHD.

SeaHD brings you on a journey through several oceans around the globe. View real dolphins, sharks, eels, clownfish & more. Watch tranquil footage on your desktop or HDTV for an entertaining experience. Learn facts about the marine environment. Construct your own video playlist to watch your favorite clips.

• Multiple Locations: Dive Points Around the Globe
• Over 20 Stunning HD¹ Videos
• Original Portrait Videos
• Fish Identification: Learn Facts About Species
• SEAquence: Create Your Own Playlist
• Music: Select From Included Ambient Soundtracks or From iTunes
• Export clips to iMovie
• In App purchase bundles (download over 20 more amazing creatures)
• Output to Your TV² with HDMI
• Airplay Support (Single Dive Points Only)

SeaHD is available on the iPad for $2.99. Screenshots after the break.

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I had the great pleasure of being on TUAW TV Live with the one and only Steven Sande today, and we discussed all things Mac and iOS, and also delved into podcasting and some of the joys and consternations of blogging.

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Google SVP and Senior Legal Officer, David Drummond has blogged about the recent trouble Google and their manufacturing partners have had over patents with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle.

Android's success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.

He also complained about Apple and Microsoft teaming up to out-bid Google for Novell and Nortel patents and calls for a Justice Department investigation into anti-competitive behavior while at the same time indicating Google would beef up their own patent portfolio.

He didn’t seem to indicate Google would be filing to intervene in the Lodsys lawsuits against developers, which Apple has done. With Samsung delaying the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia due to litigation with Apple, and HTC paying Microsoft $5 per Android handset in licensing fees, Google does have a lot to worry about.

While Android is fast approaching majority share of the smartphone market, Apple enjoys 66% of the profits, and as we’ve said before, while Apple seems content at making Android uglier, Microsoft wants to make an already less-profitable Android platform even costlier.

We called our most recent podcast with FOSS Patent’s Florian Mueller, World War Patents for a reason, and it seems the battles are just beginning.

[Google Blog via Android Central]

iTunes Replay is the rumored name of the rumored Apple subscription video streaming service rumored to compete with the likes of Netflix. Apple Insider reported on the rumors a while back, and now App Advice hears it might be coming soon.

There’s talk you’ll be able to stream content purchased as far back as January of 2009. We’re not sure what will happen to content purchased before that. There’s also talks of certain content only being available for re-downloaded five times. This lines up with Apple traditionally allowing 5 computers to be authorized to play purchased content under one iTunes account. If true, iTunes Replay would basically just extend what Apple is currently offering for re-downloading content via iCloud.

It should also be interesting to see if iTunes Match content will be integrated into iTunes Replay. If we can simply stream a lot of our content, it will free up precious storage space on our devices.

App Advice

iPad users that use twitter.com in safari, instead of the downloadable iPad app, will be getting a new HTML5 web app in the next few weeks

Currently, iPad users who navigate to ‘twitter.com’ are greeted with the old iPhone layout, with an option to switch to the default desktop UI. However Twitter announced on the ‘Twitter Mobile’ twitter account that they have begun rolling out a new HTML5 based web UI specifically for the iPad, which should reach all users in the coming weeks.

We’ve launched our HTML5 version of twitter.com for iPad. It will be rolling out to device owners over the next week or so.

The screenshot above shows that the UI is similar to both the desktop design and the recently updated iPhone design.

I haven’t had the updated web app yet, but I’m interested to know if any of you have had a chance to play with it yet.

[9to5mac] [@TwitterMobile]

Not only does iPhone Live, the live recording of the best dang iPhone and iPod touch podcast on the net, hit the air tonight, but Rene will be a guest on TUAW TV Live with the one and only Steve Sande tonight as well!

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Meta

• Developer Spotlight: Ryan, Abhishek, and Feng from TeleNav

iCloud

• iCloud.com goes live
• Apple adds iCloud TV Show re-downloading to iPhone, iPad
• Apple TV 4.3 update streams purchased shows, adds Vimeo video
• iCloud extra storage prices revealed
• Apple releases iWork for iOS betas for developers, includes iCloud support
• iPhone 5 appears in Korean carriers inventory system but only in 16GB and 32GB flavors?

iPhone 5

• Pegatron working on iPhone 5 and will be shipping in September?
• Next gen iPhone already being tested by carriers for September launch?
• iPhone 5 fakes already turning up in China [video]
• Apple set to launch iPhone 5 in October, not September as previously thought?
• iPhone 5 case leak-a-palooza
• iPhone 5 to launch in second week of September, iPad 3 to follow later in the year?

News

• Apple now owns 66% of mobile profits
• iPhone sales: AT&T and Verizon vs. the world
• Future iPads, iPhones to be built by Robots
• Taiwanese Foxconn robot spoof video
• 90 second iTunes previews starting to roll out internationally

Tips

• Daily Tip: How to turn off notification emails in Google+
• Daily Tip: how to enable push notifications in Tweetbot for iPhone

Apps

• TiPb Picks of the Week
• App for That: How to send videos to the cloud

The iPhone 5 hasn't been launched yet, we don't have any real idea what it will look like either. That hasn't stopped the Chinese market for fake handsets to get one out the door already! Are we surprised? Not at all.

If we imagine for a moment, that the knockoff shown above, or in the video after the break, is based on some inside information on the iPhone 5 design, what do you think? It looks like a softened iPhone 4 design with a few more curves and an iPhone 3GS type curved rear.

Gizmodo‘s Jesus Diaz is so sure this design is accurate, he’s staked all his body hair and future meat consumption on it…

[Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, @jesusdiaz]

Target and Radio Shack are dropping their prices on the iPhone 4. A lot of retailers typically do this to clear out inventory in anticipation for a new iPhone. We’ve seen it happen every year thus far.

If you’re in the market for a new iPhone and don’t care about waiting for the iPhone 5, you can get an iPhone 4 at Target for $149 (16 GB) and $249 (32 GB). Radio Shack also has a promotion this week cutting the prices to $169 and $269. If you trade in an existing iPhone, you can get an additional $100 off at Radio Shack.

As always, these prices will require you to sign a new 2-year agreement. I’d personally hold out for the iPhone 5 but if you aren’t willing to shell out over $200 for a new phone, this may be the deal for you.

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