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Instant messaging moves to cell phones

By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 23, 2000, 12:15 p.m. PT

URL: http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1004-200-1556076.html

A pair of instant messaging companies have teamed up to link hugely popular Internet instant messaging systems with wireless phones.

The technology, a joint effort by wireless start-up @Mobile and Net firm Tribal Voice, aspires to break down the barriers that have kept computer users and wireless phone users on different communication systems.

While the technology is still months from commercial use--and in danger of being passed up or co-opted by Internet giants such as America Online--analysts say the idea behind it is likely to be one of the success stories in the fluid wireless software market.

"One of the driving criteria of wireless is instant gratification," said Jane Zweig, executive vice president of Herschel Shosteck Associates, a wireless research and consulting firm. "Instant messaging really falls into that." ....

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