Microsoft Brings IM to the Mobile Phone
Posted by aco on 24 June 2002 - 12:52 · 11 comments & 218 views
Users of Instant Messenger can keep receiving messages, even when they are not logged on to their personal computer, as Microsoft and eight European mobile operators expanded the service to cellphones on Monday.

A message sent from a PC to a user who is 'off-line' will automatically be forwarded to his mobile phone in the form of a short SMS text message. Replies from a mobile phone will land back in the Instant Messenger dialog box on the computer. Mobile phone users will be charged per message received or sent.

Operators in Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Turkey and Norway, with a combined total of 31 million customers, launched the service on Monday, in conjunction with Microsoft's internet services unit MSN.

Microsoft is the only company bringing an Instant Messenger to European mobile phones, but America Online and VoiceStream, owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom, have brought AOL's Instant Messenger to phones in the United States since November.

News source: Reuters
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  • Added full scanlines to 320x256x8b Mode-X. Uses the same timings as the 256x256x8b full scanlines, so it may or may not work correctly depending on your video card. [stainless] (DOS only)

  • Linked the EAGLE engine to the filtered GUI option and fixed guassian interpolation which has been broken since version 1.71b. [stainless, kode54] (DOS only/all ports)

  • Cleaned up the 320x480x8b and 320x240x16b blitters and added MMX support to 320x480x8b for a nice speed increase. [stainless] (DOS only)

  • Added 640x400 alternatives to 512x384 video modes for video cards which don't have them. Added a small screen option to the 512x384 and 640x400 video modes with MMX support. Also added a "wide screen" option to 640x400 video modes. [stainless] (DOS only)

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  • Fixed gamma in PNG snapshots. [pagefault]

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  • Fixed problem with sound getting disabled when running command-line network games. (Windows only) [pagefault]

  • Updated video code in Windows port to properly display 239 line modes. (Windows only) [pagefault]

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  • Fixed a bug in sprite priority rotation. (fix damage in FFMQ) [TRAC]

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