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Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging
Colibria Wins Global Mobile IM Contract from Telefonica
Mobile instant messaging vendor, Colibria says that it has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile IM services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end 'Movistar Messenger' service with full integration with SMS. more
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Colibria Wins Global Mobile IM Contract from Telefonica
Mobile instant messaging vendor, Colibria says that it has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile IM services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end 'Movistar Messenger' service with full integration with SMS. more
Related Tags: colibria, telefonica, facebook
Nokia Shows Off Three New Phones
At the Nokia Connection event held in Singapore today, Nokia has shown off three new phones, along with making a lot of noise about favourite buzz terms such as "ecosystems", "compelling services" and "solutions". more
Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger
Cuba criticized Microsoft on Friday for blocking its Messenger instant messaging service on the island and in other countries under U.S. sanctions, calling it yet another example of Washington's "harsh" treatment of Havana. more
NeuStar Delivers Mobile IM to Telefonica O2 Germany
Telefonica O2 Germany has selected NeuStar's Next Generation Messaging (NGM) services to power its mobile Instant Messaging (IM) service in Germany. The launch follows positive user feedback from a successful mobile IM trial carried out in 2008. more
Related Tags: telefonica-o2-germany, mobile-im, neustar, mobile-instant-messaging, telefonica-o2, Germany
'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money
Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by "sleep talking." Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode - where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode - where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode. more
Related Tags: microsoft, uc-san-diego, tim, voip, flash-memory, ovi, personal, virus, memory, operating-system, presence, flash
Communicating with more than words
ICT is all about communication but it has never provided the semantic richness offered by the non-verbal cues that typically pepper face-to-face conversation. Thanks to European researchers, that is about to change. more
Related Tags: sms, eu, twitter, rsa, privacy, ict, edge, tim, ovi, iden, vas, telecom-italia, helsinki, partner
Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time
Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-email, smartphone, text-messaging, ict, smartphones, tim, mobile-internet, helsinki, Finland
Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
Once reserved for busy business executives, smartphones are now being incorporated into the mobile lifestyle of college students, says new research from Ball State University. A recent survey of about 300 college students found that 27 percent own a smartphone as compared to the national average of 19 percent for working adults. more
Related Tags: sim, smartphone, eu, text-messaging, edge, smartphones, tim, personal, ims, smart, USA
Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, windows-mobile, microsoft, seattle, atlanta, mms, mobile-email, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, bluetooth, clearwire, gps, tim, wind, ovi, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, palm, mobile-internet, opera, windows, 4g, USA