Want to IM your friends while playing mobile games? Colibria might have the answer…

“We’re not really interested in being fancy on the front end. We’re just creating a solid Android IM client”. So says Guy Reiffer, VP of Marketing for Colibria. He was taking me through the details of some of the work Colibria has done recently - including the “Canvas” application for facebook (see our article from earlier this week) and an IM client for Android that can be integrated into anything that runs on an Android device.

MWC: when is an application an advertisment? When it’s Canvas, the facebook app from mobile IM master Colibria

When Colibiria announced the Canvas application for Facebook in early Febraury, GoMo News reported on it. But I have to admit that I didn’t get it what it’s really about. It’s a Facebook application that allows you to access your mobile contacts list from the social network itself. You can send them SMS or IM them, and use VoIP to call them (see the full report here). At the time I pondered about how much money its possible for an operator to recoup by sneaking their core functions into an on-line social network… but that’s not really what this service is for. This service is really a massive advertisement for Colibrias Rich Communications Suite (RCS).

For those who want to make mobile calls from Facebook, Colibria presents Canvas

Here’s an interesting convergence - messaging expert Colibria has launched a Facebook application that will allow users of the social network to call and message their mobile contacts right from Facebook.

Who needs a smartphone? Colibria delivers mobile applications to any phone with a contacts list

Colibria today announced the launch of its new service, the App Center. This is an operator-end service, designed to deliver mobile application services through already existing messaging infrastructure. The range of applications revealed by Colibria so far is quite small - mostly limited to social networking services and easily updatable apps like weather and news [...]

GoMo 1-to-1: Colibria

We spoke to Guy Reiffer, Product Marketing Director for Colibria, specialists in mobile IM. Citing poor user-experience, Colibria believes that Instant Messaging use is going to migrate from the on-line web to the mobile web.

GoMo 1-to-1: Colibria from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.

1 in 5 people rate mobile social networks as “poor”, says Colibria

Messaging and social networking company Colibria has revealed research results about what mobile users want from social networking. 2,000 online respondents were surveyed in the UK. 43% of users only describe their experience as average, with a further 20% rating access as poor or very poor.
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Almost 40% of 18-45 year olds said [...]

Colibria SIP messaging solution

Colibria has annouced the availability of its SIP IM Server. Designed to enable the convergence of voice, media and text based communication across mobile, fixed and converged networks in both IMS and pre-IMS networks, this product offering includes many of the features that have made Colibria’s market-leading MIM solutions a success.

WHAT?
The new SIP IM Server [...]

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