‘Eight major wireless companies including Telefonica Moviles SA, China Mobile and Orange have announced an initiative to promote instant messaging through mobile phones across their networks at the GSM conference today.
In a statement, the GSM association said the other members of the initiative are TeliaSonera AB, TIM, T-Mobile, and GSM operators in India.’
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‘Microsoft recently announced at 3GSM cell phone trade show in Barcelona that it plans to extend its corporate instant messaging software for use with mobile devices.
The new product is called Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile, and will run on Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005. The mobile messaging software can be integrated with desktop PCs, so […]
‘Mobile email and instant messaging (IM) will be the main drivers for growth in the mobile industry this year, according to Mike Short, vice president of O2 and chairman of the Mobile Data Association.
Short told vnunet.com that two key events are helping growth: the introduction of mobile IM with full operator interactivity; and the expansion […]
‘European and Asian mobile phone operators, in a bold but risky move to bolster sales of data services, announced a plan Monday to introduce worldwide “instant messaging” via cellphone.’
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‘Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Feb. 14 affirmed his commitment to wireless computing with the announcement of several new products and initiatives, including a mobile version of the company’s corporate instant messaging system and a new service that streams live TV to cell phones.
“We’ve spent the last 10 or 15 years really building out the […]
3GSM World Congress, Barcelona. Orange Group and Vodafone Group (“the companies”) today announced they are finalising an agreement to be the first multi-national mobile operators to launch Instant Messaging interoperability, with the intention to link Instant Messaging communities using the familiar “calling party pays” principle.
Working under the open standard interoperability principles, established by the GSM […]
‘Some of the biggest mobile phone networks have joined forces to push instant messaging (IM) over mobiles.
Fifteen operators, including Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and China Mobile have agreed to work together to make it easy to IM across networks.
The motivation to get IM working on mobiles is driven by its huge success on the net. By […]
‘AFTER its success in providing unlimited call and text services, Sun Cellular offers another innovation—unlimited mobile instant messaging.
Sun Instant Messaging (SIM) service allows both paid and pre-paid subscribers to send instant messages using their mobile handsets to anyone using MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and AOL.’
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CommonTime announces mSuite for Nokia 9300 phones, which extends its mobile and wireless Lotus Notes messaging solution to offer Lotus Instant Messaging and Push Email.
Secure wireless data transfer, centralized management of devices and content will also now be available to Nokia 9300 owners. mSuite aims to boost productivity, reduce cost of ownership and increase total […]
‘”We are very pleased that Intellisync is bringing its ‘always-on’ mobile IM solution to Symbian OS smartphones,” said Simon Garth, vice president, marketing, Symbian Ltd., as Intellisync emphasized its commitment to Symbian OS today,by announcing the availability of Intellisync IM, a wireless corporate IM solution, for Symbian OS smartphone users.
Symbian OS, the global industry standard […]