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Articles tagged with: Mobile Im
Etisalat Upgrades Mobile Instant Messaging Service
United Arab Emirates (UAE) mobile network operator, Etisalat has launched an upgraded Mobile IM (MIM) service powered by Colibria's Instant Messaging & Presence Service (IMPS). Etisalat's new MIM service, Etisalat Messenger, not only enables subscribers to communicate with both individuals and groups via MIM, but also incorporates Presence to allow subscribers to publish their presence status, picture and mood to their contacts. more
Related Tags: colibria, mobile-instant-messaging, presence, United Arab Emirates
Mobile Data Usage on INQ1 Tops Performance of Smartphones
Hutchison Whampoa backed mobile phone manufacturer, INQ Mobile has released data on usage of its first phone, the INQ1 on the Hutchison 3G UK network. The company's handset was built from the ground up with social media and internet services at its core. An average of 65% of INQ1 customers are using Facebook, with the majority of users accessing once a day or more. more
Related Tags: hutchison-whampoa.-hutchison-3g-uk, inq-mobile, inq1, facebook, skype, hutchison, 3, UK
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
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Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging
Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, ict, text-messages, instant-messaging, billing, mobile-instant-messaging, UK
Push to Talk and Instant Messaging Revenue Will Top $16 Billion in 2009
The worldwide market for presence-based telecommunication services, including instant messaging (IM) and push-to-talk (PTT), is expected to exceed $16 billion in 2009, as an ever increasing number of cellular and wireline carriers provide customized services predicated upon the availability of their end-users. more
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Worldwide Messaging Revenues set to exceed US$224 billion by 2013
A new report from Portio Research focused on mobile messaging has suggested that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. Traffic volumes and revenues continue to confound predictions and are expected to keep growing throughout the global economic downturn. Indeed the whole mobile messaging industry worth US$130 billion in 2008 is predicted to be worth US$224 billion by 2013, 60 percent of non-voice service revenues. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-messaging, mobile-email, sms, mobile-data
Business Customers’ Mobile IM Adoption More About Familiarity than Mobility
In a new White Paper, ABI Research reports that mobile IM adoption is negatively correlated to mobility. According to principal analyst Dan Shey, "The greatest adopters of mobile IM are T-Mobile subscribers whose demographic profile shows a high percentage who only work in an office. As office work typically requires PC access, mobile IM adoption appears more related to familiarity with IM through the PC rather than mobility itself." more
Related Tags: t-mobile, mobile-messaging, smartphone, arpu, driving, abi-research, verizon, personal, sprint, displays, USA
LG to Embed Social Networking Application into Indian Handsets
RockeTalk, a provider of mobile social applications, has announced a partnership with LG Electronics India in which the RockeTalk mobile social networking application will be pre-loaded on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models. These LG phones, pre-loaded with RockeTalk, are already available to consumers through LG retailers in India. more
Related Tags: google, social-networking, rsa, lg, lg-electronics, India
Mobile Operator Revenues to Top $1 Trillion in 2011
In 2007, operators worldwide generated more than US$800 billion in mobile revenues. A report from Portio Research now expects this to to reach US$1,094.9 billion by year-end 2012, growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 6.4 percent. The US$1-trillion mark is expected to be reached by year-end 2011. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, sms, mobile-data, arpu, rsa, instant-messaging, mobile-video, mobile-instant-messaging
SMS Revenues to Decline in Western Europe until 2011
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that SMS still represents the lionÃ's share of mobile data services revenues in Western Europe in 2007, and while MMS has failed to replicate SMSÃ' success, many operators are looking on MMS as a medium for delivering user-created content, advertisements and news, which is likely to spur usage and adoption. Value-added features will be key to driving the uptake of mobile IM services. more
Related Tags: mms, sms, mobile-data, driving