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'Push-to-talk' -- the voice equivalent of text messaging (SMS) -- has come to the iPhone(TM) for the first time. Promised as 'soon' when it launched its service for the iPhone on July 29, Palringo has added the vocal instant messaging functionality to its rich messaging application available from Apple's App Store. Kerry Ritz, CEO of Palringo, said: "We've completed the suite of ways in which people can communicate with each other using an iPhone, adding voice, text-based and picture...

As Sprint announces the launch of its QChat push-to-talk service in another 14 U.S. markets, another company has quietly - and freely - been providing a similar service that is available across the U.S. With offices in New York and London, Palringo offers "vocal instant messaging" or push-to-talk that - unlike Sprint's QChat - works across most mobile platforms and is independent of network operators. What's more, Palringo's walkie-talkie style chat is part of a broader, richer messaging...

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Meebo, the 3-year-old Mountain View, Calif., start-up recognized as a trailblazer in Web-based communications, unveiled eight new partnerships on Wednesday that could potentially add 55 million users to its growing instant-messaging service. The "Meebo Community IM" initiative is designed to bolster the company's bold self-proclaimed title as "the Web's live communication platform." It also revs up its efforts to tap into the multibillion-dollar online advertising market....

Meebo, the Web's live communication platform, today announced Meebo Community Instant Messaging (IM), a new Meebo-led product initiative designed to integrate open instant messaging into online communities. Beginning with eight major launch partners, the integrated IM service will enable live interaction and real-time conversation between members of online communities such as social media, gaming, and blog networks. The result is the creation of an open and federated instant messaging network...

CALGARY, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Multiplied Media Corporation, a Calgary-based provider of local search services, is pleased to announce their Poynt Local Search service on the instant messaging platform reached 52,795 users over the weekend. "We have been steadily adding users since the launch of the new Poynt platform earlier this year," said John Lowe, CEO, Multiplied Media. "This milestone confirms that Poynt is capturing the attention and interest of consumers." Poynt is an...

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet WriterNEW YORK - Instant-messaging conversations, though quick, aren't always fleeting.Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s salacious chats with teenage pages emerged along with e-mails last week, as the Florida Republican abruptly resigned. ABC News, which broke the story, has said former pages were the source of the revelations about IMs from 2003.Most likely, the pages who corresponded with Foley either manually saved messages or used IM software with...

By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday they have begun a limited public test to allow users of the companies' respective instant messaging programs to trade messages with one another. The agreement to work together, first announced last October, marks a long-awaited breakthrough among major instant messaging services, which include AOL's pioneering AIM service, Microsoft and Yahoo, along with more recent upstarts including eBay...

SEATTLE (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are preparing to link together their free instant messaging services as they take on entrenched messaging leader AOL and market newcomer Google Inc., a source close to the companies said on Tuesday.The deal, the first major alliance between two of the Web's main providers of instant messaging, will allow users of Microsoft's MSN Messenger service and Yahoo Messenger to swap instantaneous text messages with each other.A Microsoft spokeswoman...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Further expanding beyond its roots in Internet search, Google Inc. (GOOG) plans to launch a long-rumored program Wednesday that provides both text instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice chat.The new program, Google Talk, will compete against similar free services offered for several years by America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) All are vying to increase their presence on PCs to boost online ad revenue and name recognition.The...