Students type their notes on laptops, use Google to investigate concepts they don't understand and send each other instant messages when the professor gets too boring.
Students type their notes on laptops, use Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to investigate concepts they don't understand and send each other instant messages when the professor gets too boring.
"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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By contrast, the number of people using Skype to instant message each other grew over the period.
The two instant messaged each other frequently throughout their work days.
Far better would be to have a smart meter in the home that told you how much electricity each appliance was using at that instant, and how much it was costing you.
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But the catch with alternative instant messaging services is that each one is a closed system.
In an instant the men lost touch of each other.
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Windows Phone users will be able to view photos and social networking updates for just that group, if they want, and talk to each other as a group through email and instant message services such as Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat.
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We can both recite from memory at this very instant who owes us money and where each project stands.
Each move has made the collections these designers leave behind instant collectibles.
They monitor each worker's productivity to the second and can give instant feedback about how to improve production.
The new 2.0 update features an entirely new FaceTime-like interface, allowing simultaneous audio translations within a video call, which not only adds a new interactive experience, but also adds another dimension to this new type of instant communication: the body language and tone to each conversation.
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Facebook's service is designed to combine traditional email, instant message and cellphone text messages into one system, routing messages to whichever service is best for each person, and keeping an archive of it all.
Moreover, the company had launched itself on a treadmill where it needed to do more deals each year to show growth, since the previous year's contracts were reported as revenue and earnings the instant they were signed.
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