Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging

SMS is still the king of messaging with speed, reach and reliability cited as reasons

New research launched by Acision, has revealed that SMS is still the most prevalent messaging service in the US today when compared to other messaging services such as 'Over the Top' (OTT) Instant Messaging (IM) (OTT/IM) services. more

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Mobile Instant Messaging to Exceed 1.3 billion Users by 2016

A new report published by Juniper Research forecasts that the number of mobile IM (Instant Messaging) users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016. This tripling of users from last year will be driven by the arrival of new services, such as Apple's iMessage, and continued growth of existing services, such as AOL's AIM, Blackberry Messenger, Microsoft's Windows Live, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger. more

Claro Peru has become the fifth subsidiary of the América Móvil group to launch Claro Messenger, a mobile IM service powered by Synchronica's hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform. Synchronica is in the process of deploying this mobile IM solution across all 17 of América Móvil's subsidiaries as part of an agreement which was signed earlier this year. more

Related Tags: claro, america-movil, synchronica, feature-phones, Peru

Synchronica Buys Colibria's IMPS Instant Messaging business

Synchronica has announced that it is buying Colibria's IMPS Instant Messaging business, reseller agreements and existing worldwide mobile operator customer base for an undisclosed amount. The software will be maintained as an independent platform, but will also be integrated into Synchronica's Mobile Gateway messaging suite and will be pre-installed on the recently launched MessagePhone. more

Related Tags: synchronica, colibria, imps, seamless

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

Colibria Wins Global Mobile IM Contract from Telefonica

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

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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

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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

'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

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