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Articles tagged with: Instant Messaging and Mms
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
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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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Ericsson to trial rich communication services on Spainish network
Ericsson is to trial multimedia applications based on the Rich Communication Suite standard in cooperation with Spain's Telefónica. This is the world's first live demonstration of interoperable rich communication services. more
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SMS and MMS Set the Cash Registers Ringing in the Nth American Mobile Market
Mobile carriers profit heavily from short message services (SMS) and multimedia messaging services (MMS), with volumes more than doubling annually. The North American mobile messaging market is in a state of rapid adoption and high revenue growth, with billions of dollars generated in SMS revenue from a user base that covers half of the mobile user population in the region. 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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Messaging Hub Provided Interoperability Between MMS, SMS and IM
Syniverse Technologies and Colibria have announced a messaging hub solution which will deliver seamless interworking between operators for IM, SMS, MMS and presence applications. Syniverse is a provider of technology and business solutions and Colibria is a provider of instant messaging and presence solutions. more
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Global Consumer Mobile Messaging To Exceed $88 Billion By 2012
Total spending on mobile messaging services by consumers will rise 15% from $65 billion in 2007 to over $88 billion by 2012, according to a new Strategy Analytics report. Although SMS will continue to contribute to the vast share of consumer messaging spend, the availability of low-cost flat-rate data plans will enable rapid growth in usage of traditional PC based messaging services, such as email and instant messaging via mobile. more
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Buzz Technologies Signs Agreement With Thai Military
Buzz Technologies says that it has signed an agreement with the Thai Military Lanna Center, Chiang Mai, Army Unit 33, The Third Army Region. Buzz Technologies will supply the following to test with the intention to purchase secure online communications: Wifi/Wimax; Instant messaging (IM), Voice and Video; SMS/MMS alert services; secure dedicated web browser and a selection of Buzz Hardware Devices to troops deployed in the filed and to provide coverage to military bases. more
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Synergy with IM is Key for the Future Success of SMS
A research study conducted by LogicaCMG and STL amongst delegates at this year's Telco 2.0 and IMS Services Forum in London has revealed that the future success of mobile messaging services is dependant upon much closer interaction between mobile operators and leading internet players. The research, across 70 senior figures from the mobile industry, shows that in future successful mobile messaging will require operators and internet companies to work together to deliver successful integrated services which take advantage of each industry's respective strengths. more
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MMS Worth US$50 Billion by 2010 - report
Worldwide, SMS has emerged as the cheapest, quickest, easiest form of peer-to-peer mobile communication ever known and is still growing in all regions. MMS is not a failure, in fact far from it. A new report forecasts that MMS will also generate revenues of US$50 billion by 2010. Other mobile messaging technologies, (e-mail, instant messaging (MIM), and to a lesser extent push to talk (PTT) and video messaging), will grow in popularity. Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) has a strong future in certain markets, particularly the US where MIM volumes are expected to pass SMS by 2009 or 2010. more
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