October 8, 2004
Flip Open That Cellphone: It's IM on the Move
It looks more and more as if IM has outgrown its exclamatory roots in teenage chatter, reports reports the NYTimes.
"The Washington-based Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated in early September that 53 million adults use the technology.
And even though most of Ms. Powell's tuition-conscious friends at school can't or won't cover the extra cellphone service costs for mobile messaging, many other people are apparently willing to pay.
The Pew survey revealed that 15 percent of IM users have sent messages on a cellphone, hand-held or wireless notebook computer, and suggested that the more frequently a person used IM, the more likely he or she was to have used it while on the go. Among those 18 to 27 years old, 25 percent reported having used IM wirelessly."
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