Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging and Microsoft

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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'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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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

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Gemalto to Embed Windows Live Messenger in SIM Cards

Microsoft and smart-card vendor, Gemalto have announced they are collaborating to offer Windows Live Messenger services to the mass market of mobile subscribers through a new Windows Live Messenger client application that comes pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. The Gemalto application, named SIMessenger, is the world's first Microsoft-certified instant messaging SIM client solution.  more

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Gemalto Offering SIM-Based Windows Live Mobile IM to Argentineans

Gemalto has announced the successful implementation of Microsoft's Instant Messenger service built into its SIM cards, and will be available for the Argentinean marketplace through Personal's new SIM cards in the coming weeks.  more

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AOL to Enable Push Email and IM on BlackBerry Phones

AOL and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of AOL's AIM and ICQ instant messaging services as well as AOL Mail on BlackBerry smartphones. Users will also benefit from integration between AIM, ICQ and the BlackBerry Address Book. Users will be able to associate a contact in their IM contact list to the respective contact in their BlackBerry Address Book (and vice versa), which will allow the user to initiate an IM session from within their BlackBerry Address Book and initiate a phone call, email, SMS or MMS from within their AIM or ICQ session.  more

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