Popular instant messaging service Trillian is developing an application for the Android operating system. Trillian for Android will be able to connect to Facebook Chat, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, and MySpaceIM. You can also sync contacts, avatars, status messages, and accounts from your desktop. Another nifty feature is tabbed chat windows with bubble view with emoticon support and photo transfer. Trillian will be supported on versions of Android 1.6 and above. Check out some screenshots below.

AOL has launched an open source United Kingdom based project called OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap focuses on user-created mapping and AOL is putting $1 million behind the project. Even though the project is U.K. based, users can navigate to use-created maps in any country.

News Corporation digital chief Jonathan Miller said that MySpace is not in talks for a sale. “We are definitely not in any ongoing talks for a sale of MySpace,” said Miller at the Allen & Co. media conference. However Miller added that MySpace plans to relaunch with new features later this year. [Reuters]

According to Experian Hitwise, Microsoft search engine Bing.com grew 7% in market share in June. Now Bing has a 9.85% market shre overall. Google’s market share dropped by less than 1% — now they are at 71.65% from 71.65% in May. Yahoo! averages 14.37% and Ask.com is at about 2.14%. [Seattle Times]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) claims that they own a patent that is being used by the Apple iBooks application on the iPad. The Microsoft patent was intended to be for the Microsoft Courier device, a tablet that never made it past development. The patent was filed in January 2009. Below is an excerpt from the patent:

This past Sunday around 10PM, a family in Victoria, Australia were driving but ended up getting in a car crash in order to avoid hitting a kangaroo. There was 5 people in the car: three children, their mother, and her partner. The mother was stranded in the wreck until her 7 year old son calmly used his Nintendo DS as a light to find his mother’s mobile phone to call emergency services.

Google launched a program called Chrome Experiments last year. Chrome Experiments is a website that shows web experiments that are built with JavaScript and HTML5. Chrome Experiments now has 100 experiments made by programmers from across the world. [Chrome Blog]

It actually felt great seeing this Vuvuzela horn blend.