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Email Is Dead? Oh Really?
6:01AM Jason Chen | The WSJ is making the call — email on its way out. Dying. Dead. It’s an interesting conclusion, derived from the fact that both growth and absolute numbers are on the side of social networking this year. But we disagree. More »
Software
Ping Is Like A Free SMS Client For iPhone And iPod Touch Users
10:00AM Jason Chen | This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it’s free and it’s fast. More »
Software
iPhone’s Beejive 2.0 IM App Now Does Voice Messaging, File Sending/Viewing
7:00AM Jason Chen | Beejive’s already quite usable Beejive IM iPhone app just got an update to 2.0, adding file transfer and voice messages to its multitude of IM connectivity. More »
Science
Researchers Discover Emotions Surpass Technical Limitations of Instant Messages
12:00AM Jack Loftus | Now there’s officially no reason to leave the house. Ever. We can call in food, clothing and gadget deliveries. We can pay our bills online. Thanks to infomercials, we can exercise in the comfort of a door frame. And today we discover that we can get all randy (or depressed) chatting with significant others on IM or its cousin, the text message. So says Jeffrey Hancock and his team at Cornell University anyway, and who are we to argue with scientists?
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