This week,the United Arab Emirates announced it would block BlackBerry e-mail,web browsing and instant messenger services on October eleventh.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Professor Johnson suspects a strong link between the rise of instant and casual communication online and an increase in writing mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

"Back in the nineteen eighties when I was dating without computers, cell phones,text messaging, instant messaging, people had to be more organized.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

His marriage to actress Julia Roberts made him an instant celebrity for reasons completely unrelated to music.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Her performance is said to have made her an instant star.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

There was an instant of extreme cold and total darkness.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

"But the next instant Nancy's heart gave a leap.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Now,they have texting,e-mail, instant messaging and video chat.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

(MUSIC:"We Are The World") The release of the original "We Are The World" on March 7,1985 was an instant success.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

She attributes the change to instant and casual communication.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

And for many others, in Iraq and in other nations, the act turned the journalist into an instant folk hero, inspiring rallies, offers of money and marriage, as well as a statue of a bronze shoe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15