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unusual facts about messaging



Acision

Acision is a privately held mobile communications network infrastructure company specialising in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such as Short message service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile internet browsing, Mobile Broadband and voicemail.

Android Cloud to Device Messaging Service

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) replaces the beta version of Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM).

AOCE

Apple Open Collaboration Environment, the collection of messaging-related technologies introduced for the Mac OS in the early 1990s.

Application-oriented networking

Application-oriented networking was popularized by Cisco Systems in response to increasing use of XML messaging (combined with related standards such as XSLT, XPath and XQuery) to link miscellaneous applications, data sources and other computing assets.

APRS

Automatic Packet Reporting System, amateur radio instant messaging and telemetry protocol

Arabic chat alphabet

Even though the Arabic language is well integrated with Windows XP and Mac OS X, people still use it in Arabic forums and instant Messaging programs such as Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger because they don't always have Arabic keyboards.

Automation Centre

In 2001, Automation Centre released a similar groupware product for the Microsoft Outlook / Exchange messaging platform, called TrackerOffice.

Blast Theory

Recent work uses mobile technologies such as text messaging, MMS messaging and 3G phones with the aim of "exploring how technology might be considered to create new cultural spaces in which the work is customised and personalised for each participant".

Bravura Solutions

Bravura Solutions is a global supplier of superannuation / pension, life insurance, investment, private wealth & portfolio administration, transfer agency and financial STP messaging software applications, as well as business and strategic consulting services.

Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport

In addition to flight status text-messaging notification, the site also features current fares to popular routes, including Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Querétaro.

CAMEL Application Part

CAP is based on a subset of the ETSI Core and allows for the implementation of carrier-grade, value added services such as unified messaging, prepaid, fraud control and Freephone in both the GSM voice and GPRS data networks.

Cell Broadcast

Cell Broadcast/Cell Information (CB) messaging is a mobile technology feature defined by the ETSI’s GSM committee and is part of the GSM standard.

Enhanced Messaging Service

Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), is a cross-industry collaboration between Samsung, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens and Alcatel, among others.

ERONET

ERONET offers both prepaid (!hej) and postpaid services, as well as mobile internet over EDGE network, VMS, multimedia messaging and others.

Google Wave Federation Protocol

Some features of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol inherited by the wave federation protocol are the discovery of IP addresses and port numbers, using Domain Name System (DNS) SRV records, and TLS authentication and encryption of connections.

HornetQ

High performance Netty NIO connector over TCP, SSL and Servlet modes (for messaging between firewalls)

Indiana State Fair stage collapse

Messages about the forecasts were relayed to various State Fair personnel via an automated text-messaging system.

Indiana's NewsCenter

Part of the plan to win back viewers included the introduction of new technology such as text messaging, an improved website with more online video, and upgrading weather equipment including the introduction of a VIPIR radar system.

Internet messaging platform

What used to be only referred to as email and IM has evolved into a complex multi-media email, instant messaging, and related fixed and mobile messaging infrastructure.

ISODE

Isode Limited, a commercial company that produces messaging and directory server software.

Jabber

The original name of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the open technology for instant messaging and presence.

Jason McHugh

McHugh wrote and directed Mindfield which was a text messaging prankster game created by Perry Farrell for Lollapalooza.

Ken Banks

Ken Banks is the Founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging application aimed at the grassroots non-profit community.

Megapass

Megapass features include TV-VOD (including movies and popular television programs), remote domestic video monitoring, SMS messaging, and local service 'directory' information.

MessageNet systems

PageStation — An advanced text messaging software system that provides real-time text messaging to pagers, PDAs, Twitter, and cell phones, from any authorized computer on a network.

Microsoft Online Services

For Instant Messaging, plus audio & video conferencing, Office 365 provides Microsoft Lync.

Motorola Jazz

The Jazz was the smallest messaging pager at the time of its release,ran on a single AAA battery and had a green LCD.

Mozilla Thunderbird

The French military uses Thunderbird and contributes to its security features, which are claimed to match the requirements for NATO's closed messaging system.

Notify Technology

Notify Technology's products provide solutions to organizations supporting Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange and a number of email collaboration suites, such as the Sun Java Communications Suite, the Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle Beehive, the Mirapoint Messaging Suite, CommunigatePro, Scalix Enterprise Server, Kerio Messaging Suite, the MDaemon Messaging Server, FirstClass, and Meeting Maker.

Open Mobile Alliance

The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of industry forums each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the Wireless Village (focused on instant messaging and presence), The SyncML Initiative (focused on data synchronization), the Location Interoperability Forum, the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum.

Rankin and Taylor

For example, the firm represented Tad Hirsch, creator of the TXTMob messaging service.

Rich Communication Services

Rich Communication Services (RCS), which provide Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with a means of transitioning voice and messaging services into an all-IP and LTE world, has gathered significant pace in America, Asia and Europe.

Robert Huntsman

Huntsman had registered the domain "qq.com" as early as 1995, which was sold to Asian internet giant Tencent whose primary product is the online messaging service known simply as "QQ".

Roster

Roster is also the name of the contact list for the Instant Messaging Protocol XMPP.

Samsung SCH-U700

The Instant Messaging providers that the phone has are AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger.

Set list

In the case of Bruce Springsteen, fans attending concerts even take on the assigned role of set list caller, periodically calling out or text-messaging from a cell phone to a friend, to report the most recent songs played, with the friend then updating a running set list on one of several Internet forums.

Steve Kille

He founded Isode Limited in 1992, focusing on high end messaging and directory products, initially based around the ISODE codebase.

Top 20 on 20

One can also vote their favorite songs by calling the station number (866-553-2020), or text messaging, Sirius XM Love moved from Sirius 3, XM 23 and Dish Network 6003 to Sirius XM Radio 17 and Dish Network 6017 as part of the May 4 channel lineup.

Ubuntu Mobile

According to Canonical, it would provide an uncompromised Web 2.0 experience: Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, simple software updates will be available periodically.

United States v. Manning

He said he also recovered 14–15 pages of encrypted chats, in unallocated space on Manning's MacBook's hard drive, between Manning and someone believed to be Julian Assange, using the Adium instant messaging client.

USFI

Initially specializing in the design and production of printed items, USFI has grown to become a provider of marketing, advertising and public relations services, and is responsible for strategic planning, messaging and media selection to execution and delivery of ad campaigns, brochures, product design and packaging, catalogs, social media campaigns and SEO and SEM services.

Voicemail

In the early 1980s, VMX sold voice messaging systems to several large corporations, such as 3M, Kodak, American Express, Intel, Hoffmann–La Roche, Corning Glass, Arco, Shell Canada and Westinghouse.

Weixin

WeChat, called Weixin in Chinese, a popular mobile phone messaging service by Tencent

WIKD-LP

The club became known for its fliers which were posted around campus (often in unapproved locations) to announce club meetings, as this was long before e-mail and text messaging and Facebook and Twitter.

Wireless Village

Open Mobile Alliance - a standards developing organisation managing the (mobile) Instant Messaging and Presence Service IMPS specification

Yahoo! Messenger

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.


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