Messenger's approach this week, only 124 miles above Mercury's surface, was much closer than any previous encounter.
That signal means a giant antenna in California heard Messenger's dial tone, systems engineer Michael Paul said, and the spacecraft was amazingly on target.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
He's brilliant, he's a great messenger for ideas, he's a true believer, and he's a guy that you never have to wonder about how he's going to vote.
Serotonin is one of the brain's messenger molecules, and is particularly involved in establishing mood.
He ended the war flying as the King's Messenger, delivering mail for Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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NASA's Messenger spacecraft blazed past the planet Mercury on Monday during the first of a series of rendezvous.
Another I-nternet attraction is the topsy-turvy farce of Microsoft lashing out at America Online for refusing to make its chat client, AOL Instant Messenger, interoperable with Microsoft's chat client, MSN Messenger.
MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
MSN's instant messenger service, meanwhile, is being made available in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
According to internet analysis firm Comscore, WLM still had more than double the number of Skype's instant messenger facility at the start of this year in the US, and was second only in popularity to Yahoo Messenger.
And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.
Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement.
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And Democrats hope people will also focus on Starr's de facto messenger in Congress, House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
If your issue is location (rather than device) you'll need the latest version of Facebook's regular and Messenger apps first.
On Thursday, Mr. Heins hinted at some new possibilities for generating service revenue, including leveraging the company's popular BlackBerry messenger service and its security- and business-focused offerings.
Launched in Asia, it caters to those who like their emoticons and stickers, but it's a solid messenger and available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
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Mr. Heins said the company is looking at a number of options to replace that revenue, from licensing the company's popular BlackBerry Messenger service, to leveraging advanced security and business-focused offerings.
The second reason why Paul has become the party's most effective messenger is that everyone across the entire ideological spectrum -- from John McCain, Rubio and The Wall Street Journal to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Attorney General Eric Holder -- is responding to him.
The IMfree Personal Instant Messenger, a small wireless handheld device for those young people that's designed to do one thing: AOL Instant Messenger.
It's the same instant messenger you're likely already familiar with, but with an Apple-designed look and feel.
HINT, crops up in 11 different genes for receptor proteins that sit on a cell's surface waiting for messenger molecules from other cells.
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For us, people sort of take it for granted -- hey, you do phones, and set-tops, and IPTV and all these things so it's easier for us now that that's part of the message for people to say, of course Microsoft's is going to make Messenger work on the Xbox.
But with Republicans looking for a new message and messenger, Jeb Bush is signaling he's open to the possibility.
On Tuesday Mr. Heins provided some details about possible new sources of revenue for the company, chief among them being RIM's popular messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, he said.
Last week when Facebook updated its Facebook Messenger app for the iPhone it included free voice calling in the U.S. A users can place a call to contacts from the conversation list if that person has Messenger for iOS meaning both parties need to be using the Messenger app.
After recording with Modest Mouse and The Cribs, Marr releases his debut solo record, The Messenger, two days before the music magazine's annual ceremony.
If AOL's services work together more fully, "it opens the door for us to argue for interoperability, " Brian Park, a senior instant messenger producer at Yahoo, said in Tuesday's edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Around 2000, however, I found myself drawn more to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) than I did to AOL's chat rooms.
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