Its Instant Messenger service is still inaccessible to similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo.
MSN's instant messenger service, meanwhile, is being made available in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
Microsoft is switching off its Windows Live Messenger service on 15 March.
Like its competitor Urbanfetch , which ditched its consumer business in October to essentially become a glorified messenger service, Kozmo must reinvent itself or die.
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.
Blackberry's owner Research in Motion has said it is co-operating with a police investigation into claims that its BlackBerry Messenger service played a key role in organising the London riots.
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.
Hampshire Police said two people were arrested on Wednesday evening over messages sent via the Twitter website, and a third on suspicion of using the Blackberry Messenger Service (BBM) to incite violent disorder.
Mr Hastings says the fact that Indonesians are some of the most social people in the world and use the BBM messenger service as much as they do is one of the key reasons behind the creation of this new application.
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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Officers believe some rioters have used Blackberry Messenger - a service allowing users to send free real-time messages - to organise violence.
BlackBerry Messenger, a service that allows users to broadcast messages free to all their contacts, was used by rioters to summon their friends to join looting sprees.
However, the popular instant-messaging service Blackberry Messenger - known colloquially as BBM - is absent from the upgrade.
Microsoft is currently in the process of migrating users from its Windows Live Messenger product to the service.
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.
Give people tools to work at home and on the road: instant messenger, mobile phones, internet service, virtual meeting tools, webcams.
According to research by Strategy Analytics, a market research company, over 90 percent of feature phone owners in the US and UK are interested in downloading and installing applications such as SNS (Social Networking Service), IM (Instant Messenger), VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and navigation and mapping.
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It still supports the modes of communications that iChat did -- including AIM and Yahoo Messenger -- but also does iMessages, Apple's own super-smart text messaging service which already works on iPhones and iPads. iMessages don't count against any text-message allotment you get from your wireless carrier, and they do things conventional text messages can't, such as tell you when the person on the other end has seen them.
There have been hacks involving MSN Messenger to relay feeds, but a more mainstream offering -- perhaps a partnership with a feed aggregation service, would greatly enhance personalization.
Facebook Messenger (for Android) in certain regions now allows people with no Facebook account to sign up for the service with just a name and phone number, without any Facebook account.
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