AIM expands mobile options with texting
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Now you can access AOL's popular instant-messaging service using cell phone text messaging.
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America Online and WebEx Communications are evaluating ways to adapt some of the online meeting services they currently offer to business users of AOL's AIM instant messaging network to make these services appealing to AIM consumers.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60173)  has announced the addition of Mobile Social Networking: New Market, New  Opportunities to their offering.
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America Online Inc. (AOL) is launching a program Monday to promote and facilitate the creation of what it calls AIM Robots for its AIM instant messaging system.
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Research advances could bring Ethiopic characters -- hundreds of them -- to text messaging, and maybe help modernize the country. Andrew Heavens reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Hamilton, Ontario -- Fun technology coupled with economical pricing fuel young adults' burgeoning use of text messaging, according to new research conducted by the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.Worldwide users send over 1 trillion text messages each year.
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Gizmo Project VoIP software now lets you chat with AIM and MSN Messenger users on the same network.
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IXI Mobile and AT&amp;T Wireless have launched a text-centric device aimed at those who keep their fingers moving, and a surprising price.
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Users can speak into the phones and have their words converted directly to SMS messages.
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Developers can add another mobile open-application development platform to the mix, this time from AOL.AOL announced on Monday that in the middle of the year it hopes to release a platform that developers can use to create applications that can run on any mobile phone. The platform will be open, so that developers can improve it as they like, said Jai Jaisimha, vice president of mobile product and technology development at AOL.The AOL Open Mobile Platform is based on technology that AOL acquired from a company called Airmedia last year. It requires an application on the mobile phone. The program, which is so small it&#39;s comparable in size to an average graphic, works in conjunction with back-end servers that take care of converting the application to the format the device requires.Currently, developers who want to write applications for mobile devices face a daunting task because they must customize their application for the various popular phone operating systems. &quot;So what this platform does is eliminate the need to learn all those different platforms because you can use a device agnostic markup language,&quot; said Jaisimha. The platform uses an XML-based markup language.Even phones that run the same operating system often have different requirements, however. The phone application from AOL already works on more than 150 handsets, and since the application is open, developers will be able to tweak it to work on any additional handsets, Jaisimha said.Developers will be able to use AOL services as part of their applications, but they don&#39;t have to. They also have the option to use AOL&#39;s advertising platform as a way to earn revenue from their programs.AOL&#39;s idea has benefits over some other platforms. For example, developers who write applications in the Symbian environment or who plan to write Android applications are limited to phones running those operating systems.But AOL isn&#39;t alone in its approach. Java Micro Edition, which runs on the majority of phones, was designed to allow developers to create Java applications that run on many phones. However, Java applications still often must also be tweaked for particular handsets. Plus, phone manufacturers must license JME from Sun if they intend to alter the program at all, which most do.AOL also faces competition in Yahoo, which recently released documentation that&#160;lets developers build mobile widgets. That means AOL will compete with it for developer attention.In addition, AOL faces the hurdle of distributing the handset application, a notable challenge because mobile users are typically disinclined to download anything onto their phones. Because the client is so small, developers can build it into their applications, so end-users could download the client along with the application, Jaisimha said. &quot;But we also certainly hope and expect that carriers and device manufacturers will integrate the platform into devices,&quot; he said.AOL is now entering into talks with developers who want to begin working on the platform immediately. It will otherwise keep developers up-to-date on the availability of the platform on its developer site .
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Mobile phone text messages are changing the way people approach romantic relationships, according to a survey published in the British newspaper The Times.
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Outlines plan to Monitise future Morse has confirmed details of its demerger and the separate listing of its mobile banking business Monitise on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).â¦
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By Michelle Theriault, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 24--On a recent afternoon, Dave Shockley learns to text message.   It's not as if Shockley's unfamiliar with cell phones.
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Ogo is the first wireless messaging device to provide instant messaging (IM) and e-mail from all three leading providers - AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!
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AOL said Thursday that it would open up its voice over IP platform to developers in an effort to spur development of new functionality and hardware that utilizes its AIM Phoneline service. The company plans to release three APIs to share various features.
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Match-making companies are creating new services that allow people to post their dating profile online and then automatically receive a text message on a GPS-enabled phone when a match is nearby, say, at a coffee shop around the corner.
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Just after unveiling a wireless network upgrade, AT&amp;T Wireless has introduced a wireless messaging device called Ogo, which will provide instant messaging and e-mail from AOL, MSN and Yahoo in addition to direct text messaging.