The office seemed almost eerily quiet and untroubled, a room full of stylish people wearing headphones and instant-messaging one another.
The idea is that when users are messaging one another, they can instantly start playing a game within the app, without having to move to another separate app or request that the other party download it.
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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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"I'm not convinced that the prospect for universal messaging on one mailbox can handle all your needs, " says Seamus McAteer, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications (JPTR).
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These days, tech companies are rushing to be all-in-one providers of everything from instant messaging to email to calls to video chat, reasoning that if you offer everything in one place, consumers will have little reason to go anywhere else.
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Line is quickly becoming one of the most popular messaging apps in the world.
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But some people experience a different kind of messaging mishap, one they may not even remember doing.
Dropping the text-messaging package is one of the easiest ways to cut down the mobile bill economic conditions deteriorate.
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Yahoo Messenger is one of the earliest online messaging tools, launched in 1998.
It provides both Internet protocol and messaging services over one server.
One programming tactic is called messaging, which involves electronic documents from a Web service to a queue that then processes each message in periodic batches.
Me, which allows them to interact with one another via video and instant messaging.
"This was probably one of the most poorly managed messaging campaigns from a president in American history, " he said.
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One explanation is that text-messaging revenue of Telefonica crashed during the quarter.
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But the catch with alternative instant messaging services is that each one is a closed system.
Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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You may not be in a global organization but telephone, email, telepresence and real-time messaging have allowed the under-one-roof workplace to diffuse into a loosely-joined workforce.
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After all, had the Obama campaign spent the Facebook ad money earlier, the effectiveness of three months of repeat messaging surely would have trumped the one month they will now get with this campaign.
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One part of that effort includes the use of secure messaging to share health information with patients through, say, an online portal.
They point to future services that integrate mobile messaging, instant messaging, email and voice, all in one, that can be accessed from any device.
One of the biggest recent surprises in the hotly contested messaging app market was the sudden breakthrough LINE had in Spain over the past six months.
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Nasdaq and NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ) hit record volumes last week, without the messaging system problems that plagued the Big Board one fateful day in late-February.
Led largely by messaging and dating app, the phenomenon is one that seems to be spreading across all regions of the globe, with Japan and the United States still in the lead but growth coming from outside those two countries.
Now, however, it looks like one wireless mainstay may eventually be adopted on planes: text messaging.
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"The predominant form of text messaging is fairly primitive, as it's one to one, " says Sheth, baby-faced at age 40.
The calling and messaging capability that would allow me to phone someone one or see and respond to a text message also wasn't functional.
In Spain, the brutal financial crisis may be one major factor driving consumers to adopt cheaper alternatives for text-messaging.
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Text messaging, although bundled with many plans, is still one of the profit centres of a modern mobile network.
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Skype is still one of the most widely used video call, video conference and instant messaging tools on the Internet.
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