In 2008, the company launched YY, a voice-based gaming communications service, which enabled gamers to voice chat over the Internet and text chat in real-time while slaying monsters or coordinating gaming missions.
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Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
From an evidentiary standpoint, the piece de resistance of Witness is the revealed-for-the-first-time text of a 2002 affidavit from Walter G.
Mint.com has an iPhone application as well as a feature where users can text to receive real-time balances, and SmartyPig recently launched a mobile site.
It sends shoppers who have opted in the service real-time deals via text message as they enter the shopping center no apps, check-in or printed coupons necessary.
Ship and plane captains all over the area get word of the whale location in near-real time through e-mail alerts, text messages, faxes and pager messages.
By using a discovery platform they were able to use a combination of SQL, text, statistics, and time-series analysis to get a more accurate customer churn prediction model.
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So IBM learned that speech-to-text technology was, at the time, not worth developing.
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
Cook has also started Appstem working on a list of improvements for INSPI2, including: improved routing including geocoding to verify that inspectors are at the right home, a native UI for tablet versions of the app, better camera integration so that users can take and tag photos faster, and real-time notifications of contractors via text messages.
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Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed were hot because they focused on real-time streams, mostly comprised of text.
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Curiously, individual customers turn out greatly to prefer paying a single fee for, say, unlimited text-messaging or 90 hours of telephone talk-time, rather than paying for each item, one at a time even though that might be a cheaper option.
He evaded the police for almost two weeks and during that time bombarded his ex-girlfriend with text messages, the court heard.
"Blocking text is a whole new thing - it's the first time they've done this on such a visible site, " he said.
The general consensus among observers is that they haven't caught up to the dedicated e-readers in text quality quite yet, but give them time.
The split-screen feature allows customers to talk and text at the same time, so for example, they can send a picture to their contact while talking with them.
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YY, which boasts more than 400 million registered users who engage in real-time group activities like karaoke and tutoring through audio, text and video on the free platform, went public in the U.S. rather than in Hong Kong or Singapore because its platform has "global implications, " Chief Executive David Xueling Li said in New York, through a translator.
Frequently we spend less time talking face-to-face in this age of the text message and email.
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Besides, if he kept them busy with follow-up missions, they would have had no time to talk or text.
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The "two-factor" verification system, which will be optional, asks users to register a phone number, e-mail account and six-digit code that would have to be entered, via text message, each time they log in to the site.
In setting the conditions that apply to IM, the FCC was concerned that AOL Time Warner could use Time Warner's cable networks to extend its current dominance in text-based IM into new "advanced" IM services that will include multimedia components such as video conferencing.
After that time period of inactivity, Google will send out a text message and e-mail the secondary address you provide.
The icons vary in shape and size, with the time in a circle, bright and big (good for those of us text-size challenged).
Fifty-four years after the UK signed the text of the Hague Cultural Property Convention, it is time that we took the key step of ratifying it, as the United States finally did earlier this year.
Over time, photo delivery, video calls and games were added to the package's text-based messages.
At the time, push email was rare -- although prevalent on BlackBerry handsets -- and text messages were still a good way of sending an important message to the top of someone's crowded screen.
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Though it is paying a large premium for O2, it is getting its hands on a well-regarded brand in a country where consumers spend a lot of time making mobile calls and sending text messages.
All the same, if there are substantial and eye-catching changes to the convention text, or if (as seems quite likely) the inter-governmental conference simply fails to reach agreement on time next month, there will be much hand-wringing in Brussels, Paris and Berlin.
Imagine a room with several dozen players all talking and acting at the same time and where everything had to be described in text you would have to read several 80-line pages of text in rapid succession to understand what was happening.
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