CD-quality sound on the company's instant-messaging service could provoke even steamier gossip around the coffee pot.
In Netherlands, the unusually high pricing of text-messaging services drove strong early adoption of WhatsApp messaging service.
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For Facebook to compete with that, it needs to show off a more appealing messaging service today.
On Wednesday, Google added a new social messaging service, Google Buzz, to its Gmail web-based email service.
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Saudi Arabia had previously announced it was to prevent the use of the Blackberry-to-Blackberry instant messaging service.
The campaign will involve TV and radio advertising, a daily messaging service and roadshows around the country.
Those tweets triggered pre-set keywords on Van Poppel's Twitter pages, which alerted him via instant messaging service GoogleTalk.
GroupMe, he noted, started as a text messaging service, later added conference calling, then released a mobile app.
However, the popular instant-messaging service Blackberry Messenger - known colloquially as BBM - is absent from the upgrade.
Kik is a free mobile messaging service with 50 million users that is transforming itself into a social platform.
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If the social messaging service was cocaine, however, last week it became crack.
Its only product was a free voice- and text-messaging service for cellphone users.
Trostel also uses an instant messaging service to communicate with co-workers and family.
In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
Samsung's own messaging service, ChatON will also arrive (once again) preinstalled, alongside local fare like Sina Weibo and QQ.
BalkanLeaks uses the anonymity tool Tor to protect its leakers, while BrusselsLeaks employs the encrypted messaging service Hushmail.
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Paste a sprawling URL into Twitter, and the messaging service will automatically translate it into a tight little Bit.ly tag.
Facebook on Wednesday also introduced a change to its instant-messaging service, which now allows people to create on-the-fly group conversations.
According to ComScore Media Metrix, in July, AOL's instant-messaging service had over 41 million users in the U.S. alone, Yahoo!
Skype is buying the group-messaging service GroupMe , just a year after it was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.
Acquired by AOL two years ago, ICQ now has 70 million users, making it the largest instant-messaging service in the world.
Over the long term, Zynga also plans to build its own unified messaging service for its games network, these people said.
Founded in 2005, Meebo started out as a browser-based instant messaging service and expanded into a social toolbar product for publishers.
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Using the Short Messaging Service (SMS) functions on mobiles, people with hearing difficulties can communicate by typing messages into their phones.
As Twitter has grown, users have improvised all sorts of ways to add new features to the bare bones messaging service.
He is quick to add, however, that other Microsoft services using Passport could do so, including MSN, Hotmail and the instant-messaging service.
That's thanks to products such as its QQ instant messaging service with over 700 million users, which gives it huge marketing clout.
Zipwhip, a cloud text messaging service, said they had produced the machine as way of highlighting the abilities of its wider business.
The findings illustrate the challenges facing Twitter in demonstrating to small-business owners the benefits of using the short-messaging service to reach customers.
The cash will also help integrate There4me.com, which provides advice online under the Childline name, and to develop a text messaging service.
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