Mobile

It’s been a long, battle with a lot of finger pointing, but AT&T has officially stated that VoIP over their 3G network will be supported, opening the door to Google Voice, Skype and other apps on the iPhone and other 3G phones. While VoIP applications such as Skype were previously available, they relied exclusively on WiFi connectivity. In... [Read more]

Last Friday, AT&T added multimedia messaging (MMS) capability to the iPhone 3G and 3Gs, allowing customers to send and receive video, pictures and audio messages in the same way they could send text messages. Start Messaging To enable MMS messaging, connect your iPhone to your computer and click “Check for Update” in iTunes. Once the... [Read more]

Last week, Yahoo! Messenger product manager Sarah Bacon put her foot in her mouth when she complained on the Y! Messenger blog that Apple was taking so long to approve their updated Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app. Somehow she missed the fact that the app has been resubmitted with some changes, resetting the review period. Nevermind that she’s a product... [Read more]

Nimbuzz has launched an Android version of their “mobile social messaging” application.  Like it’s iPhone sibling, the Nimbuzz Android app lets you connect to multiple IM and social networks, including Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Facebook and others. The interface is compact and efficient, complete... [Read more]

Time have changed. People no longer send handwritten love notes. No, technology has forever transformed the way we connect with other people, as wickedly illustrated in this instructional video on text messaging your way to love. You’ll learn when to send that first “post-makeout” text; when (and when not to) drunk text; and how to... [Read more]

Cerulean Studios has begun beta testing Trillian for the iPhone, and BigBlueBall has new screenshots. The closed beta began tonight, and requires the iPhone OS 3.0. I’ve been running this Trillian beta on my year-old iPhone 3G for less than an hour, and I’m already impressed. Trillian for iPhone allows you to swipe to switch between open... [Read more]

Update From the BigBlue Blog

BigBlueBall staff member Doris Kenney–patndoris in the forums–has been officially recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Live Messenger (WLM). The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise... [Read More]

Back on March 1st, we introduced an extensive redesign of BigBlueBall to make it easier for you to participate in our community. We revamped the front end of our site to leverage the powerful-but-flexible Wordpress back end. We made it possible to comment without registering, and made it possible for you to sign in using your Facebook account.  But... [Read More]

I want to extend a personal thank you to all the Facebook users who joined our BigBlueBall Fan page. We quickly passed 100 fans, allowing us to register our own BigBlueBall Facebook URL: http://www.facebook.com/BigBlueBall If you are a Facebook user and haven’t joined our fan page, please stop by and click the “Become a Fan” button... [Read More]