I agree that IM is useless for a mobile which already has IM (email) and is
always connected, however it would be cool to know if your friend is on
their PC, so you can send them an IM- and AOL has a lot of these people (at
least in the US) on their (closed)IM system already -another walled garden?
David M
>
>I was at an event last Friday where the head of AOL Japan showed off AIM
for
>wireless devices. While I would expect this sort of nonsense from the US I
>would have thought the Japanese group should have known better.
>
>Now wireless IM has hit the popular press as well:
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2653139,00.html
>
>Am I alone in thinking this is stupid? If not I shall rush out and patent
>
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Received on Tue Nov 14 06:37:30 2000