WhatsApp and Kik Messenger (among others) are thriving in the new mobile chat frontier.
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And mobile chat is a natural extension for Tencent.
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Today, all of our customers can use any mobile video chat app that they download from the Internet, such as Skype.
If Polycom is successful, branching into mobile video chat should help its core conferencing business and strengthen its bid to be the technology that links other, closed networks.
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When upstart smartphone company Xiaomi launched a mobile-chat service in 2010, Chief Executive Lei Jun told a conference in May, it expected Tencent to take a while to launch a rival service.
Zuck: Group Chat works on mobile, but obviously not the new chat design because of the small screens, and not video calls yet.
The engineers behind Google Talk have also made mention of new mobile versions of the chat software that are expected in coming months.
We caught up with Greg Sullivan -- senior product manager of Windows Phone -- for an early morning chat during Mobile World Congress.
At least one other firm plans to announce high-definition, multi-user video chat for mobile devices at Mobile World Congress, the big telecom trade show, this week.
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They can just chat through their mobile browser.
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Seventy percent of couples who both own a mobile use it every day to chat or say hello.
Better yet, what about the same video stream and chat window on a mobile app such as on the Twit Network?
The front-facing camera also makes it easy to connect with friends and family via video chat through T-Mobile's 4G network or Wi-Fi.
Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.
As the leader in group video-chat, ooVoo's new mobile apps are the only major communications product offering users four simultaneous video streams at once on mobile devices, and hosting a total of up to 12 participants on one call, for free!
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The video chat service is not yet integrated for mobile devices.
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Customers will also be able to share photos, interact with friends and chat instantaneously, all through the most immersive mobile Facebook experience, which will be enhanced by EE's superfast 4G network.
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The Bobsled Facebook chat is part of a broader move by T-Mobile to connect traditional phone calls with VOIP services.
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The real-time chat service is widely seen as an answer to the mobile messaging apps becoming wildly popular among young smartphone users.
Skout is a mobile app that people can use to meet others, flirt, chat and send photos and virtual gifts to one another.
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It will also offer variable Bass and Treble Boosts, Dynamic Chat BoostTM and a 4-pole connector for compatibility with mobile devices.
Then, when you want to chat over Skype, the call is routed over a regular mobile network which then connects to iSkoot's servers.
With full mobile compatibility and analog inputs, the Z22 is the first PC headset featuring Chat Boost, variable Bass and Treble Boost for a powerful audio performance across the sonic spectrum.
In mobile, email, its newly acquired About.me service and in its new video chat service, the company is trying to erase your memories of AOL dial-up CDs in your mailbox.
"Google has a chat application, Web-based search, and there is no one cohesive Google mobile application, which is important to have in a mobile environment where you want to be able to switch between applications, " she says.
Voice chat start-up Vivox is powering a new service called Bobsled for partner T-Mobile that enables people to talk with their friends on Facebook.
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In particular, the words "video chat" were tossed out as an example of how it planned to keep pace with the evolving mobile landscape.
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