It's a crowded marketplace, and the company's messaging has a long way to go.

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Incompatibilities between networks led to a long delay in enabling text messaging from one network to another.

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More than anything this handset is the only best messaging smartphone out there, and it does go a long way than that.

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Crucially, drivers will be able to filter the AR display to eliminate all advertising, which would mean, some day, that Americans could take long drives without being subjected to any commercial messaging.

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The victim testified that she was first taken to see Mr. Weberman in 2007 after she was caught text-messaging a boy, wearing skirts that weren't long enough and otherwise being singled out at her school.

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Over the long term, Zynga also plans to build its own unified messaging service for its games network, these people said.

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Meanwhile, a broadly recognizable name goes a long way, especially when it comes to integrating voice, messaging and Internet services on a global scale.

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The consumers on free Gmail made excellent guinea pigs for tests, and their behavior told Google about how long people scanned items, say, or what they used in instant messaging.

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But while innovations like e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging, Twitter and Second Life have increased the volume of Internet chatter, they haven't necessarily made long-distance relationships any more successful, Guldner says.

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