Facebook launches mobile messaging app

Release Date 10 Aug, 2011 in TG Daily

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	Facebook takes on Blackberry Messenger with the launch of a standalone instant ... Mirror.co.uk - Johnny Goldsmith - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook is taking on Blackberry Messenger as it makes a move into the mobile instant messaging market. The internet giant released a standalone iPhone and Andriod app in the US last night but has yet to launch in the UK ...
	Facebook launches mobile messaging app DAWN.com - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook engineer Lucy Zhang said Facebook Messenger can be used to exchange messages with Facebook friends but also with other people in a user's telephone contact list. Zhang, in a blog post, highlighted Messenger's group messaging capability. ...
	Facebook aims to replace texting BBC News - 10 Aug, 2011 The dedicated app, for iPhones and Android devices, allows users to contact individual friends or groups of people. Its release comes a month before Apple is due to unveil a similar product. Attention has been focused on mobile messaging recently ...
	Facebook Launches A Messaging App Techtree.com - Jayesh Limaye - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook has launched a new app simply known as Messenger, which lets send messages directly to your FB buddies' mobiles. Of course, that is possible only if they have registered their mobile numbers with the social networking giant. ...
It's Hard to Tell What Kind of Company Facebook Wants to Be The Atlantic - 10 Aug, 2011 By The Atlantic Wire Facebook has multiple personalities. One day it's a place to hang out with friends, the next it's where you share your news, next it's something having to do with videos. It just can't make up its mind. ...
	Facebook Messenger app to take on BBM, Google+ and Apple's iMessage The Guardian (blog) - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook is making its move into the mobile instant messaging market with a standalone app for iPhone and Android called Facebook Messenger. It is set to provide competition for platform-specific apps like Research In Motion's BBM and Apple's iMessage, ...
Tech Ticker San Jose Mercury News - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook introduced its first stand-alone mobile app Tuesday, a messaging service that incorporates group messaging and can function in conjunction with the Palo Alto company's social network or using SMS technology. Facebook Messenger allows a user to ...
Facebook Launches Mobile Messaging App PCWorld - David Daw - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook on Tuesday afternoon introduced an app for mobile phones that acts as a standalone group chat client for mobile operating systems. The app, now live for download, expands the chat features in ...
Facebook Messenger app challenges cell carrier 'control' CNN - Mark Milian - 10 Aug, 2011 That's a question the cellular carriers will lament as the biggest technology players pile into what's known as the mobile-messaging space. Facebook joined the fray on Tuesday with the release of Messenger for iPhone and Android. ...
Recommended: Facebook launches Messenger app for iPhone, Android msnbc.com - Suzanne Choney - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters and editors look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. By Suzanne Choney Facebook Tuesday introduced a mobile app that lets ...
Facebook Offers App for Mobile Messaging Wall Street Journal - 10 Aug, 2011 By SHAYNDI RAICE Facebook Inc. launched a rare piece of standalone software, a messaging app for smartphones that highlights a widening battle over mobile users. Facebook Messenger, which was announced Tuesday on the company's blog, is designed to ...
	Facebook Launches Standalone Mobile Messaging App Forbes (blog) - Tomio Geron - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook has launched a standalone messaging app for iPhone or Android, showing the company's larger ambitions as a service for communication between friends. People no longer have to log-in to the Facebook app to get and send messages. ...
Facebook counters Google+ chat with mobile app Computerworld - Lex Friedman - 10 Aug, 2011 Macworld - Facebook on Tuesday launched Messenger for Mobile, a new group chat app for the iPhone, along with some other Android and BlackBerry phones. Apparently, Facebook is feeling the heat from a little social networking ...
	Facebook creates mobile messaging app Reuters India (blog) - 10 Aug, 2011 But the social networking giant gave users of Apple's iPhone and Android smartphones a new app on Tuesday. Dubbed Messenger, the new app lets Facebook users quickly shoot messages to their friends' cell phones. Yes, you could already do this using the ...
	Facebook's New Messaging App Aims to Do Away With SMS Wired News (blog) - Mike Isaac - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook debuted a new app for smartphones Tuesday, allowing users to send text messages to each other from their smartphones using Facebook's messaging system. The app in question �" Facebook Messenger �" is an extension of Facebook's ...
	Facebook Messenger takes aim at email, texting Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Shaer - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook Messenger, a new standalone app launching this week, allows users to send group messages or share photos with a single tap of the touchscreen. Facebook is rolling out an independent chat app called Messenger. Here, the Facebook homepage. ...
Facebook Messenger App Could Replace Texting Huffington Post - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook Messenger, available immediately for Android and iPhone, is a standalone app that can send messages to your Facebook friends or any contacts in your phonebook via mobile. All of your messages, whether to FB friends or phonebook contacts, ...
Facebook Messenger app for Android video tour mobileburn - 10 Aug, 2011 MobileBurn.com - Facebook has released a new stand-alone messaging app for the iPhone and Android smartphones that marries its Facebook Messaging service with the group messaging app Beluga that the social network purchased earlier this year. ...
Facebook Tackles IM With 'Messenger' App PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 10 Aug, 2011 On a day that BlackBerry Messenger was in the news over its alleged role in the London riots, Facebook introduced an instant messaging app of its own, dubbed Facebook Messenger. "More and more of us rely on our phones to send and ...
Facebook Launches New Mobile App For Sending Quick Messages To Your Friends San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook has a new mobile app for iPhone and Android that will let you send text messages to multiple Facebook friends. It's called Facebook Messenger and it's based on Beluga, the group-messaging company that Facebook scooped up earlier this year. ...
Facebook rolls out standalone mobile-chat app CNET - Josh Lowensohn - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook today doubled down on its mobile efforts with a new mobile application that breaks out its messaging service into a single app. Dubbed "Messenger," Facebook is making the app available for both Apple's iOS and Google's Android. ...
Facebook launches Facebook Messenger app for Android, iPhone ZDNet (blog) - 10 Aug, 2011 By Emil Protalinski \| August 9, 2011, 12:30pm PDT Summary: Facebook has launched Facebook Messenger, which lets you message individual friends, message groups of friends, send photos, and privately share your location. It is available for Android and ...
	Video Chat Found In Facebook Messenger App Geeky gadgets - 10 Aug, 2011 Earlier today Facebook launched a new messenger app for Apple's iOS devices and Google's Android devices, Facebook Messenger, and it looks like something interesting has been discovered within the app. According to the guys over at 9 To 5 Mac, ...
	Facebook Messenger app may bring video conferencing Product Reviews - Gary Johnson - 10 Aug, 2011 While there has been a lot of criticism of Facebook's new Chat service on its main site, it hasn't stopped the company moving into the mobile instant messaging market. The new Facebook Messenger application for Android and iOS may also bring video ...
	Facebook launches mobile messaging app TG Daily - Emma Woollacott - 10 Aug, 2011 Blackberry's mobile messaging service has come in for a lot of attention in the last few days - not all of it positive. Undaunted, though, Facebook is launching its own version. The Messenger for Mobile app, for iPhones and Android devices, ...
	Facebook chat app for Android, iPhone launched MyBroadband - 10 Aug, 2011 Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming. He is also regular columnist and hardware... Facebook have released their new app for Android and iOS called “Messenger”. ...
Facebook launches Messenger app for mobile New Media Age (subscription) - Charlotte McEleny - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook has launched a mobile app to let people message each other instantly from their phones. The app allows people to send messages to more than one person at a time, and also as an SMS to a user's phone contacts who are not on Facebook. ...
Facebook Messenger: The new BBM.. Just too late for the Riots Shiny Shiny - Anna Leach - 10 Aug, 2011 Forget Blackberry Messenger - the new app for fast-typing teens who love hyperactive communication could be Facebook chat. Okay, we know it's not new, but Facebook have just released an app in the US ...
Facebook Reveal Messenger for Mobile webhostdir.com - 10 Aug, 2011 Facebook has launched a new message service that's set to rival the likes of the Blackberry Messenger Service (BBM), SMS and apple like WhatsApp. The service is called Facebook Messenger for Mobile and allows users to send and receive Facebook.com ...
Facebook's Hiding Video-Chat In Its Messenger App Gizmodo - 10 Aug, 2011 According to what the discoverer found, the video-conference feature will be available for both iPhone and Android, and may even use Skype as the base technology for the service, like they use in the browser. I had a similar question when Facebook and ...