Study Shows Social Messaging Apps Cost Carriers $13.9 Billion in SMS Revenues Last Year

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Verbs – Popular Instant Messaging App is Available For Free In The App Store, Just For Today

News | Thursday December 8 2011 9:34 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Verbs – a popular instant messaging app for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch, which is usually available for $0.99 is available for free today.
Verbs supports Google Talk, Facebook, AIM and MobileMe and allows you to send send photos and view PDFs, Office and iWork documents via CloudApp and Droplr.
Supports GTalk, Facebook, AIM and MobileMe.
Get Local Notifications for messages for 10 minutes when running in the background.
Use CloudApp and Droplr (more…)

Messaging And VoIP Apps Hitting Carrier Revenues

News | Sunday November 13 2011 4:01 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

said about the huge influx of messaging and VoIP apps and its impact on carriers. While almost everyone expected these apps to eat into carriers’ revenue, no mobile operator admitted this.
, based on interviews with 31
, confirms that these
have indeed affected messaging and voice traffic on networks.
The study, which was carried out on behalf of Mavenir by mobile(SQUARED), found that a third of operators believe operator traffic from messaging, (more…)

iOS Messaging Database Is Limited To 15 MB Of Storage In iOS 5

News | Saturday October 15 2011 8:01 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , ,

. So if you exceed this limit then you won’t be able to receive new messages and will get the following error message:
“Your SMS mailbox is full. New messages cannot be received until you delete some messages.”
Apple reveals this new limit in the knowledge base article that was published on October 15th. It reads:
iOS messaging database is limited to 15 MB of storage, which is about 75,000 messages. If you have updated and your iPhone displays (more…)

Facebook Releases Facebook Messenger – Standalone Messaging App For iPhone

News | Saturday August 6 2011 11:14 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

Facebook has just released a new messaging app for the iPhone called Facebook Messenger in the App Store.
app. We wonder if it has anything to do with Apple launching
 that will be released later this fall.
Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message everyone at once and more.
Message friends, groups of friends or anyone in your mobile contacts
Map your location, (more…)

iMessage: iOS 5 Brings New Messaging Service For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch Users

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AT&T To Simplify Text Messaging Plans, Downplays Impact Of Verizon iPhone

News | Friday January 21 2011 9:41 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

Folks over at Gear Live have come across a some interesting information that they say has been leaked from retailer Best Buy’s internal training documents.
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look an overall better choice and making it a far more attractive proposition for Best Buy consumers with its new text messaging plans. Let’s now delve in to the details of these plans.
According to the first report, AT&T will offer simpler text messaging plans starting January 23. (more…)

Apple Working On Audio Text Messaging For iPhone

News | Friday March 19 2010 8:41 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

In order to tackle these issues, the patent filing calls for the ”
” of multimedia data by the sender's device followed by the transfer of this data over a voice channel to the destination device. This is in contrast to the use of data channel for conventional text messaging. The filing notes that the technology can enable any textual data on the display screen, like contact numbers, to be vocalized before being sent over a voice channel.
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Security Vulnerability in iPhone’s SMS Messaging System to be revealed Today

News | Wednesday July 29 2009 6:02 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

The attack was demonstrated on the iPhone of Cnet’s Elinor Mills. This is what she had to say of how this attack works in practice:
The only thing you can do to stop the attack is to turn off your iPhone quickly.
According to the report, the researches informed Apple about the
security flaw over a month ago but Apple is yet to release a patch to
address the bug.
Miller had also discovered a vulnerability in the original iPhone soon after (more…)