It is now routine for university students to text, e-mail and instant-message during lectures.
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Though Tam described their relationship as friendly, in a recent instant-message interview his tone was harsh.
The Florida Republican resigned Friday amid scrutiny of his e-mail and instant-message contacts with pages.
Ning, a Silicon Valley start-up, plans to almost double its mobile development staff to 17 to work on a hybrid instant-message and social network it launched in February, said Chief Executive Jason Rosenthal.
Voice-over-Internet apps like Skype allow users to make voice calls over the Internet while instant-message apps from WhatsApp to Kik let people exchange text and photos without being charged for a text message.
"We want to make sure we have all the facts, but right now we're taking the company's assurances" that the issues with use of customer data didn't extend to trades or instant-message conversations, Mr. Nides added.
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But the revelations about Foley, his salacious e-mail and instant-message history with underage males who had worked as congressional pages, and questions about who in the Republican leadership knew about these goings on and whether or not they did anything to stop it, or cover it up have struck a chord around the country.
It can send a message to all message addresses (phone number, e-mail address, instant messaging screen name) for all message types (voicemail, e-mail, instant message, SMS, MMS, fax).
Roll your eyes and LOL, but boyd is a highly sought-after ethnographer--Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is an instant message buddy--who has helped tech companies shape online products and privacy policies aimed at youth.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
Just as with the UBS and Barclays settlements, regulators have produced incriminating e-mail and instant message correspondence among traders and managers with regard to setting interbank interest rates.
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The game is designed to be very social, with a Facebook-style stream of activity of your friends, the ability to instant message friends, status updates, in-game messages and forums.
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According to an online description of the product, Safe Eyes lets parents log the social-media posts and instant message conversations of their children.
Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
The proposals to be brought forward would address the fact the police - who can already tell when, where and who made a mobile phone call or sent a text message - cannot always trace the origin of an email, a message sent via instant messaging or a phone call made over the internet.
The Internet's chat rooms, message boards and instant messaging systems have long been fertile ground for opinions both glowing and nasty--especially nasty.
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