Mobile Instant Messaging Will Drive Socially Connected Address Books The development of 'socially connected' address books will help broaden mobile IM's appeal.- Mobile Instant Messaging Won't Eat Into Text Message Revenue On 3 November 2008, Vodafone launched its Vodafone Messenger application in Germany.
RIM Faces New Challenges as BlackBerry Gains Mass Appeal Research In Motion (RIM) is working to address the widening appeal of its BlackBerry smartphones beyond corporate e-mail users.
Skype outage raises questions about viability of Voice over IP (VoIP) services On August 16th 2007 Skype's peer-to-peer network suffered a major outage which made its services unavailable to the majority of its users for approximately two days.
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Mobile Internet Survey Reveals Latent Mass Market for Smartphones
More people are open to the idea of using media, apps and the Internet on their phones than we had first thought.