Wireless IM

from the Driving-and-instant-messaging-can-cause-damage-to-your-health dept

News.com has a teaser story that AOL and Motorola are going to extend AOL Instant Messenger to run on Motorola wireless devices. Finally, I'll be able to instant message while I drive! More as the story develops.

Update: Full story is here

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    Ryan Bethencourt, 13 Oct 1999 @ 12:46pm

    What will nokia do ?

    I have a feeling that we'll be seeing a few more teaster stories before telecom 99. I guess nokia could link up with aol or msn to match motorola.

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    Mark Baker, 13 Oct 1999 @ 3:25pm

    Full story

    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-851560.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.1005-200-851560

    This must be iDen-targetted. Doing it over WAP seems silly since WAP's use of SMS in 1.0 is notoriously lame. I can't imagine them using anything else for the inbound message.

    IM over GPRS is gonna be a lot more fun. No need for WAP at all then, it'll all be IP (UDP).

    MB

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