Since the device focuses solely on mobile messaging--e-mail and texting--it won't suck up Haiti's limited bandwidth.
So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
Facebook acquired mobile messaging startup Beluga in 2011 and recently expressed interest in buying WhatsApp Inc.
The mobile messaging landscape is teeming with apps both large and small, from Kakao to Pinger to WhatsApp.
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Kik is a free mobile messaging service with 50 million users that is transforming itself into a social platform.
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Internet services last week, an analysis of outbound text messages shows that mobile messaging services are still largely blocked.
The content of mobile messaging just as other forms of electronic communications, are subject to electronic discovery rules.
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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.
They point to future services that integrate mobile messaging, instant messaging, email and voice, all in one, that can be accessed from any device.
The key to establishing an effective relationship with potential buyers is quick and even instant access to mobile messaging services embedded directly within apps.
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Big tech companies acknowledge that mobile messaging is a top priority.
Mobile messaging company Flytxt is providing technical help with the promotion.
So could toys like Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )'s IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
Esendex, a mobile messaging service provider based in Nottingham, has been creating the means for clients to send a text message for more than eleven years.
In fact, some carriers are already shifting their messaging traffic to their data networks, according to Devesh Agarwal, vice president of mobile messaging at telecommunications company Tekelec.
The text messaging data comes from Sybase 365, a California-based provider of mobile messaging and commerce services that was acquired by business software giant SAP last year.
Several mobile messaging companies are moving in this very direction.
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Yet just as Facebook is getting its act together on mobile, it faces a competitive headache over the next year or two from increasingly popular and native-to-mobile messaging apps.
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MasterCard has launched its Mobile Money partnership program with Indian mobile services provider Comviva, mobile messaging service Sybase 365, and a Singapore-based mobile financial services company Utiba as initial partners.
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Samsung, which debuted its own messaging app called ChatOn in late 2011, has reached out to mobile messaging startups including MessageMe, for possible partnerships, said people with knowledge of the matter.
There are already a slew of mobile messaging apps, some of which are cross-platform and have been around for a couple years or longer, and already boast tens of millions of users.
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This is something they are already seeing with regard to SMS revenues with the advent of mobile messaging services like WhatsApp, Pinger, and GroupMe, which use the Internet to send free text messages.
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MessageVine develops own-brand instant messaging services for mobile phone operators that enable them to build a community of desktop and mobile messaging users, according to the company's Vice President of International Operations, Amit Rahav.
But with new mobile messaging services like GroupMe, WhatsApp and Pinger providing that same functionality, RIM was under pressure to offer other consumer-friendly features too, and video calling certainly gives it an edge on rival services.
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The Vault stores written messages such as Bloomberg messages, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Notes, instant messages, social media and mobile messaging for about 540 clients who have stuffed 66 billion records, several petabytes, into the Vault.
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Now their power is being circumvented in all sorts of ways: new players like FreedomPop are providing cheaper WiFi access for the home, mobile messaging companies like WhatsApp and GroupMe are eating away at their SMS revenues.
As big as those figures are, however, it could be argued that they could have been even higher if not for the impact of several mobile messaging clients that utilize mobile data networks and Wi-Fi, but do not generate revenue for the mobile carriers.
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The mobile-messaging technology I was demonstrating didn't elicit too much interest.
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