This service lets you keep tabs on your friends not only on the Web, but also on your cell phone or in your Instant Messenger.

这种服务使用户能够及时了解朋友的动向，这不但可以在网上进行，而且可以通过手机或即时消息传递程序进行。

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Microsoft Corp. 's MSN Messenger, which is run in China through a joint venture, has 4% of instant messaging users, compared to 77% for the QQ service from China's Tencent Holdings Ltd.

微软(Microsoft Corp .)旗下的MSN Messenger是通过一家合资企业在华运营的，它在中国占有4%的即时消息用户，相比之下，中国腾讯(Tencent Holdings Ltd .)的QQ服务则占有77%的用户。

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Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing instant messaging from the computer to the television.

今天，微软公司按计划将宣布为他的Xbox360游戏机的控制器提供窗口即时通服务，将即时信息服务从电脑带入电视。

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Sadly, it's not over: BBM Canada, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group that has used the BBM moniker in one way or another for six decades, wants to reclaim its name -- used and made popular by RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service -- and has filed a lawsuit against the phone maker for trademark infringement.

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However, the popular instant-messaging service Blackberry Messenger - known colloquially as BBM - is absent from the upgrade.

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Officers believe some rioters have used Blackberry Messenger - a service allowing users to send free real-time messages - to organise violence.

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