The PS Vita already has voice chat and text chat through its built-in Party application.
One of the most popular uses of YY is for karaoke, where one person will sing while others follows along and chat with each other on text chat.
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In 2008, the company launched YY, a voice-based gaming communications service, which enabled gamers to voice chat over the Internet and text chat in real-time while slaying monsters or coordinating gaming missions.
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But chat and text help have been on the rise for more than two years, she said.
You can resize this window and drag it anywhere on the screen, so you can continue to browse, chat, text and do much more while the video plays on.
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And nearly all chat and text users ages 15 to 24 agreed or strongly agreed that they were satisfied with their conversations, indicating significantly decreased levels of worry afterward.
"What we've seen from our online chat and text-messaging program is that they appreciate a real answer, in real time, from a real person, " said Leslie Kantor, Planned Parenthood's vice president of education.
"We've had people who are walking and they just needed to get out of their house because they had an argument with their parent, so they're texting us as they're calming down, " said Jennifer James, who supervises chat and text outreach for Common Ground, which also serves adults from its base in southeastern Michigan.
Customers can initiate a BBM Voice call directly, or instantly switch from a BBM text chat to talk, and back again.
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Second Life Enterprise is built on the same foundational technology and communication channels including spatial voice (VOIP), text chat, and 3D interaction and offers an identical user interface as the main Second Life environment, enabling current Second Life users to easily migrate to a behind-the-firewall environment.
And after they spent 18 months visiting various companies and testing secure chat, phone and text products, they chose Silent Circle.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is in its second year of running one of the largest text and chat outreach operations for people ages 15 to 24, targeting African-American and Latino youth through promotional campaigns on MTV, websites and mobile providers, social media, wallet cards, video and Seventeen magazine.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a new crisis line and website with multiple avenues, including text and online chat, for those contemplating suicide to reach out.
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Skype works very much like an instant messaging program, but allows users to call people on their buddy list and have a voice conversation instead of a text-based chat.
Replacing the familiar iChat, Messages is an instant-messaging program with group-chat capability and a dash of text messaging mixed in.
Krieger digs through code on his laptop as the others text with Instagram engineers via Facebook chat.
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The new feature will simplify how people communicate whether it be via text, instant messages, online chat or e-mail.
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Several agreed that text enhances call-in and chat options for a generation of young people who prefer to communicate by typing on their phones, especially when they don't want parents, teachers, friends or boyfriends to listen in.
The block includes colorful little buttons that say text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video.
"If you look at the 500 million people who are on Facebook and the way that people text each other and instant message and use video chat, there is now an evolution of media, " Kotick said.
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Users send an invite by email or text message, and the invitee taps a button to enter a browser chat, which opens a browser-based chat room on their phone.
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The idea is to allow gamers to chat with anyone using Microsoft's instant messaging products--in addition to allowing them to blast text messages to other gamers.
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