New York, NY – Affle today announced the launch of Pinch, its unique smartphone messaging product which redefines the way users discover friends, message them and access a host of location based value services. Pinch is a unique blend of iMessenger, iContacts and iLocation Sense services packaged together to provide an easy way for smartphone users to text their friends with rich animations, pictures, emoticons and push notifications. Hence for sending Pinch messages users don’t need to incur any SMS/MMS …

Cluj, Romania – Halcyon Mobile launched mobiPoke, the poke application for iPhone. By bringing the popular facebook poke feature to the iPhone, mobiPoke extends the iPhone with a new type of messaging: mobile action based messaging. With mobiPoke users can send and receive mPokes (predefined action messages with an image and customizable status message) to each other.

“mobiPoke extends the iPhone with a new and different type of mobile messaging,” said Levente Szabo, co-founder of Halcyon Mobile. “They won’t …

Yahoo! announced the preview availability of Yahoo! oneConnect, the revolutionary new social address book that brings together a user’s circle of friends, their lives, and all the ways they communicate into one seamless, easy-to-use application. Yahoo! oneConnect is now available in the Apple(R) iPhone(TM) App Store and is also expected to support additional devices in the coming months.

With Yahoo! oneConnect, users can integrate all their contacts, send instant or SMS …