May 26, 2013

Messaging - News


Kik Messenger Milestone – Crosses 1 Million Users

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Kik, a new chat application for smartphones that is quicker and more social than SMS, is showing impressive viral uptake. The company says it has registered 450,000 downloads in the first 10 days since going live. There appears to be a strong demand for the ability to circumvent the carriers for quick messages, as the [...]

T-Mobile USA Sued over Blocking of Text Messages – Suit Filed by EZ Texting

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Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages to large numbers of people, filed the suit (PDF)  yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company is one of those that provide the behind-the-scenes infrastructure for the type of ad that asks consumers to [...]

Trillian Messenger Public Beta Now Available For Android

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Trillian launched the beta version of its multiprotocol instant-messaging client for Android on Thursday. Trillian for Android brings many of the desktop program’s core features to Android 1.6 and above, including tabbed chats, emoticons, and support for a broad range of instant-messaging services. Over the coming weeks we will be fixing bugs and crashes, working [...]

Even India Keeping an Eye on RIM BlackBerry Security Issues After Middle East Countries – India Gave Aug.31 Deadline to RIM

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Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday. A DoT official, who declined to be named, told reporters that the meeting ended “inconclusively,” but refused to provide details. The ultimatum came [...]

Google Droping the Google Wave Service Due to Lack of User Interests and its Source Codes are Open Now

Google Inc. said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on its “Google Wave” collaborative messaging service due to a lack of user interest. Although the innovative Google Wave was launched with great fanfare a year ago at the company’s Google I/O conference, the company acknowledged that it had never quite caught on with the general [...]

Puma Phone Hits Stores in Europe, Africa and Middle East‎ for 399 Euro

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Sagem’s Puma Phone, that was unveiled at MWC 2010 will finally be available in some parts of the world. This sporty device will be available in select countries of Europe (Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Romania, Macedonia and Slovenia), Africa (Uganda, Madagascar, Kenya, Mauritius, Cameroon, Botswana, Tunisia and Senegal) and the Middle [...]

Motorola WX404 with QWERTY Coming to Sprint or Verizon

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Motorola has come up with QWERTY phones before such as Droid/Milestone, the BackFlip, or the old Q series. Here’s another Moto handset that seems to be quite messaging-friendly: the Motorola WX404. The Moto WX404 has been spotted at the Bluetooth SIG. It’s a candybar with a landscape display, CDMA connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1, internet browser, multimedia [...]

Samsung SCH-U820 Reality Comes to Verizon

Samsung and Verizon have officially announced the Reality (SCH-U820). It’s an entry-level touchscreen phone with a physical sliding QWERTY keyboard aimed at avid text messaging and social networking users. The Samsung Reality will be launched on April 30th and will feature the TouchWiz user interface along with a QWERTY keyboard, 3.0 inch WQVGA resolution touch [...]

Nokia E5 Messaging Phone Full Features

The Nokia E5 is a 2.4-inch smartphone that is set to replace the Nokia E72 in the affectations of anyone who needs a QWERTY messaging machine. Why? Well, the sleek new design adds an even smoother keyboard while the battery life of the Nokia E5 – up to 25 days in standby – is bound [...]