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You know, I’m a little bit late on this one but I couldn’t help but pen a response to the piece on the Daily Beast called, “Texting Makes U Stupid. This is a silly argument that we see resurface every couple months and I really want to smack it down. Texting will NOT make U…
The SMS, or text message, is seeing its last days and I sure am glad. Google is reportedly working on its own version of iMessage or BBM for Android. This means users will be able to send text and multimedia messages to each other, globally, without incurring messaging costs from the carriers. If true, I’m…
We’re getting closer to SXSWi, and the IntoMobile team will be bringing all the goodies to you as it happens from Austin, TX. During large events such as SXSW, it’s pretty important for us to be able to keep in touch with each other. On a typical workday, we correspond with each other and shoot…
It looks like we can look forward to the Facebook apps getting some stronger messaging capabilities, as the world’s largest social network has just acquired the group chatting app Beluga. If you’re not familiar with the app, it lets you set up “pods” for creating a BBM-like service for group messaging and chatting. It doesn’t…
As a cheapskate, I absolutely love the Groupons and LivingSocials of the world even though I know that deep down I’m not really saving much because I probably would have never went to those places in the first place. Still, I love me some deals and that’s why the Five and Fifty service stood out…
If you thought Research In Motion couldn’t make BlackBerry Messenger any more addictive, you’re wrong, as leaks suggests the next version will include gaming. Reports suggest that the BlackBerry Messenger 6 will include some form of social gaming. Not much is known about this but it likely will include either games within the Messenger system…
The feud between Google and Apple over Google Voice appears to be over, as the app has been approved for the iPhone already and it now supports the iPod touch and the iPad. That’s right, Google is now turning your other iOS devices into free text-messaging machines. While the iPod touch and iPad can’t make…
Google has just unwrapped some improvements on the mobile Gmail for Android and iPhone and the messaging client now has support for 44 new languages. The company has been boosting the mobile Gmail HTML5 app for quite a while with new features like the ability to add and remove labels, improvements to the layout and…
I bet that on Steve Slater’s last day of work at JetBlue he probably wanted to text friends and family before landing, “OMG get me outta here!!” And now the infamous hero-turned-pariah is going to be helping Line2, the VoIP service that allows calls over Wi-Fi and 3G for smartphones, with its new promotion –…
Facebook is trying to rewrite the way people communicate with each other and it will be bringing the improved Messages product to its to the Apple iPhone app. The new Facebook operates around three principals: Seamless messaging, conversation history and a social inbox. The first is where the mobile market may play the biggest role…