Recently, the Twitter chief executive officer Dick Costolo said that all the interfaces of the Twitter will soon sport a unified look and the company will soon be launching its Hindi service as well.

The Twitter blog post says, “Twitter’s global reach gives a voice to people around the world and as far away as the International Space Station. After launching Hindi, Filipino, Malay and Simplified and Traditional Chinese in the coming weeks, Twitter will support 17 different languages.”

As far as the Twitter user interface unification is concerned, the mobile interface will remain unchanged which means the other interfaces, the iPad and web App one, will be changed. Users should also be ready for some advertisements in their Twitter stream now.

The service will have the advanced functionalities as well, but they will be accessible only to those who will actively look for it. Looks like the third party Twitter apps will be in even bigger trouble now. The Twitter CEO also talked about how about 40 per cent of the users were signing into the service but were not actually tweeting, they were only browsing to find what others are tweeting.

Fring, a popular cross platform IM and video chat application for smartphones, has added a new feature to its list. With the launch of the new Playgrounds feature, the Fring application will now allow smartphone users to video chat with up to three different users.

More importantly the application will now allow anyone to participate in Group Video discussions about subjects that matter to them using their smartphone.

With the new Playgrounds, Fring users will be able to actively engage in four-way Video discussions either by browsing a list of open Playgrounds or by creating their own video discussions about the topic of their choice on which they want to discuss with other users.

These four users of Playgrounds will be publicly visible to all Fring users who are using the latest application. Fring users will be able to video chat with others using Playgrounds feature irrespective of device type so an iPhone user can chat with and iPad, iPod Touch, Symbian or Android device users.

“Playground Video chat empowers users to video and voice their opinions about things that matter to them. We let users do more than simply ‘follow’ their interests. Now they can actively engage with others via video chat, instead of waiting for character-constrained updates,” says Avi Shechter, chief executive officer and co-founder of Fring.

In addition to public Playgrounds, Fring users continue to enjoy free Group Video chat with their friends, two-way video, voice calls and text chat with friends on Android, iOS devices and Nokia smartphones.

Playground is available for free as part of the Fring mobile app available for download from Apple’s App Store and the Android Market. Alternatively users can also follow the link to download application.

The legendary ‘Space Invaders’ game is now available for Android devices. The game created huge fan followings in golden days of console gaming but failed to create the same magic with the smartphones (it is available on iOS).

But Taito Corporation, the developers of the Space Invaders, has now given it a completely new avatar and has uplifted it from 8 bit pixelated gaming experience to near HD gaming for the Android device.

The game evolves as the players advance in the game, making it more exciting and addictive. The game begins with the same old look and feel of the ancient space invaders but newer weapons and powers for the fighter are unlocked on the way. Users in the initial stages might get a feeling that they have invested on the wrong game but as the game evolves, it goes from a childhood dream to an adulthood nightmare, ultimately progressing towards a modern day space shooter game.

Taito has also announced the game’s entry in to the Android Market and has promised many more applications in the near future.

The game is available in the Android Market for a price tag of Rs 358 and it will definitely be not liked by many fans. But as with all the other paid application this game also promises bug fixes and upgrades via updates in the future.

The application is available on the Android Market and can be downloaded on the device using the device’s application store or by visiting the following link as well.

CooTek has launched Touchpal keypad for Android smart phones that brings Swype based input functionality to them.

The Touchpal keypad is an independent input system for android devices that works on both multi tap and swype input systems. Along with that the Touchpal also features word suggestions and auto complete options that give multiple word options to the users with the minimum possible input required.

The company claims that with the use of this new intelligent word suggestion technology users can save up to 80 per cent keystrokes while using devices.

Along with the swype input the Touchpal keypad also features T+ keypad which has dual letter layout that has bigger keys as compared to qwerty.

The developer CooTek has decided to keep the application free to early adopters but for a limited time only. So users who will be installing this application before 31 October will get the advertisement free version of the Touchpal keypad for free. After that the developer might decide to make it paid or advertisement supported as they like.

The keypad works with devices running Android version 1.5 and above and users can download the application form the android marketplace from their device or can alternatively follow the link to download this as well.