In this way, through a standard instant messenger, you can type a word, and the IM agent will return its definition.

使用这种方法，您通过一个标准的即时消息程序输入一个词时，IM代理将返回它的定义。

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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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Other IM programs don't require that--users of AOL Instant Messenger, for instance, might have a totally different IM name than their e-mail address, or might not even have an AOL account at all.

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