By Alana Grelyak
It is already the end of summer here in Chicago, and as always, I’m tempted make exclamations about how time moves far too quickly. However, without the relentless onward march of the clock and the calendar, there’d be no news to report! There are plenty of timely news items for you to chew on this month. Nimbuzz is growing in popularity and makes one wonder about how service providers will adapt to the changes Nimbuzz and services like it are forcing upon them. Telcordia has a new product release that reflects today’s importance of building revenues while decreasing churn. Qwest is speeding along on land while others are making high-speed communications available at sea. Those stories and more are available to you right now if you just keep on reading. Enjoy your August NewsWatch and the rest of the summer season.
Nimbuzz has just announced a new client for Mac desktop computers, as well as an upgrade to the iPhone version that includes push technology. Users can now have messages sent to them even though the Nimbuzz software isn’t visibly open on the device. The upgrade also allows users to share photos, music, and videos and even allows them to see each other’s locations on a physical map, similar to Google’s Latitude application. “We are delighted
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of how this will be changing the way service providers’ revenue models need to change for the future. And not only those, but what about the services that are being bypassed by Nimbuzz? For instance, AIM runs ads directly on users’ screens in a constant stream. With AIM being one of the services that is now aggregated into Nimbuzz, users of AIM can still chat with all their AIM friends and be recognized with their AIM name, yet those ads are no longer reaching their intended targets. How long will it be before Nimbuzz
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by the phenomenal reception Nimbuzz has received from iPhone users worldwide and are excited to welcome Mac users to the Nimbuzz community, which is growing at nearly 1 million new users per month,” said Nimbuzz CEO Evert-Jaap Lugt. Nimbuzz is currently working on a version of its client for the Google Android system. As reported in a previous installment of NewsWatch, Nimbuzz doesn’t seem to be getting too much backlash from service providers as of now, since the aggregator stresses how their service actually brings more revenue to the SPs via data service usage. Now that the application is becoming far more widely spread, it still brings to mind questions
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and services like it change the models of not only wireless service providers but even those of chat and communications programs and the like? With an 848% growth in Nimbuzz downloads on iPhones and iPod Touch devices since the OS 3.0 update, we may be able to answer that question in the near, very near, future.
Telcordia has just announced the release of a new product that may increase CSP revenues while improving customer satisfaction. Telcordia Mobile ID, an advanced subscriber information management solution, allows CSPs and content providers to keep track of customer information
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