SMS
Facebook pips Apple iMessage with launch of Facebook Messenger cross-platform messaging application
Facebook has taken the wraps off Facebook Messenger, a separate mobile messaging application which has been developed by the same team that developed the Beluga group messaging application (Facebook acquired Beluga in Mar. 2011). Facebook Messenger will compete with BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s forthcoming iMessage, in that it will provide a messaging-over-IP (MoIP) capability. However,… Read more
Orange’s partnership with Google underlines the importance of SMS as a bearer for Internet services in emerging markets, says Pamela Clark-Dickson
Orange’s decision to partner with Google to provide Google’s Gmail SMS Chat to the subscribers of its operating companies in the Middle East and Africa is an acknowledgement by both parties that those who live in emerging markets are just as interested in accessing Internet services as those who live in developed markets. By enabling… Read more
