Ina Fried in Mobile on October 18, 2011 at 4:40 pm PT
The Korean electronics giant announces its answer to Apple’s iMessage and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Messenger.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT
The first version Samsung’s IM service will support Android and Bada; by year’s end it should work on all major devices.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:37 am PT
Following Apple and Research In Motion, Samsung says that it, too, will offer a dedicated messaging service available for Samsung device owners to easily message one another.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on May 18, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question on the pros and cons of a Mac for a small-business owner.
Kara Swisher in News on January 16, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
Groupon is in talks with Chinese Internet giant Tencent to form a partnership to accelerate its effort in the critical Asian arena, said several sources with knowledge of the situation.
Terms of the deal are unclear, but sources said that it is likely to involve some sort of co-branded joint venture effort between the two–a key strategic move for Groupon, given the hard-to-penetrate-if-you’re-not-Chinese Chinese market.
John Paczkowski in News on January 13, 2011 at 8:57 am PT
Research In Motion has finally settled its long-running dispute with the Indian government over its BlackBerry Messenger Service–part of it, anyway. It’s given wireless carriers in the country the ability to intercept messages sent over its BlackBerry Messenger service and BlackBerry Internet Service if requested by the government.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 29, 2010 at 7:56 am PT
Two problems conspired in a strange confluence of events to knock millions of users off Skype last week.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 23, 2010 at 10:27 am PT
The Internet telephony service is still not back to normal after a massive outage, but a number of services have returned, it says. Skype estimates that some 10 million of its users are now online.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 22, 2010 at 11:36 am PT
Amid a widespread outage on Wednesday, Skype said it had identified the issue, but cautioned it may take several more hours to resolve. The problem with the peer-to-peer network is that it can’t reach a number of its supernodes, which are key to the service’s proper functioning. Its solution, believe it or not, is the creation of “mega-supernodes.”
Liz Gannes in Social on November 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm PT
Remember when there was a whole phone–in fact a whole carrier–oriented around the booming social network Myspace? Lately, Myspace’s mobile offerings have been more basic and sparsely updated, but today the company announced a makeover.
