GupShup (Hindi for "chitchat") launched three years ago to offer two kinds of messaging services.
The companies who provide these messaging services are more than happy to exploit kids' text habits.
But the catch with alternative instant messaging services is that each one is a closed system.
In Netherlands, the unusually high pricing of text-messaging services drove strong early adoption of WhatsApp messaging service.
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Regulators on Wednesday did not raise concerns about charity texting, but instead focused on commercial messaging services.
Vittorio Colao, Vodafone's CEO, said his company would restore text-messaging services in Egypt when it was authorized.
The company does it all--it provides short messaging services (SMS)--multimedia services (MMS) Internet access (WAP) and wireless gaming.
Internet services last week, an analysis of outbound text messages shows that mobile messaging services are still largely blocked.
Down the line, they'll be able to offer additional messaging services -- helping them build sticky relationships with users.
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How they want to receive communication, whether through email, free messaging services or now Facebook, is up to them.
It plans to accelerate product releases for its messaging services, Mr. Deng said.
These include restrictions over how much time is spent on instant messaging services.
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SmartPay links users' bank accounts to their mobile-phone numbers, enabling them to pay via short messaging services (SMS, or text messaging).
VoiceStream will offer messaging services under the AIM brand, while in Hong Kong it is ICQ which will be to the fore.
The Messages app also supports traditional instant messaging services, including AIM, Yahoo!
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"The protesters are sending blogs and using messaging services like twitter - it's a virtual game of cat and mouse, " he said.
Korean messaging services KakaoTalk revealed to Forbes last month that it was working on its own Android launcher to compete with Home.
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The key to establishing an effective relationship with potential buyers is quick and even instant access to mobile messaging services embedded directly within apps.
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And finally, there was the U.K. government's reaction to the riots last summer in which social networks and instant-messaging services were blamed for spreading dissent.
Most of Netease's business is selling messaging services to mobile phone users in China--a profitable business that does not depend on the vagaries of advertising.
It provides both Internet protocol and messaging services over one server.
Odigo made its software interoperable with AOL's AIM and ICQ messaging services last year only to have AOL block Odigo users after a couple of weeks.
Twitter, a social-networking blog site, allows users to send status updates, or "tweets, " from cell phones, instant messaging services and Facebook in less than 140 characters.
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If his service succeeds it could disrupt the so-called OTT messaging services like Pinger and WhatsApp that are, in themselves, already disrupting the traditional carrier model.
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But youth are really flocking to Snapchat, WhatsApp, GroupMe and Kik, real-time, messaging services that were born mobile, offer more privacy and are proactively partnering with telcos.
Tech-savvy travelers are also taking matters into their own hands and using social media tools such as blogs, location-based technologies, and instant messaging services to respond to emergencies.
One operator, EE, has predicted that its customers alone will use more than 226 terabytes - 236, 978, 176 megabytes - of mobile data as they took to Twitter and instant messaging services.
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Facebook also faces mounting competition from mobile-born messaging services like WeChat, WhatsApp and Viber, which young people in particular are said to be favoring over the wider social audience of Facebook.
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But Lotus's entrenched position does not worry Leo Schlinkert, boss of Communicator Inc in White Plains, New York, which focuses almost exclusively on providing 128-bit encrypted instant-messaging services for financial institutions.
This is something they are already seeing with regard to SMS revenues with the advent of mobile messaging services like WhatsApp, Pinger, and GroupMe, which use the Internet to send free text messages.
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