Palringo

Palringo launches location services

by alec on January 28, 2009

It’s a sign of the times, as Palringo launches a suite of location services targeted at letting friends know the locations of other friends.  Starting today, users looking down their contact lists see not only the location of their Palringo contacts—typically a town name—but also how far away those contacts are from them.  And in a future update, Palringo will add the ability to be able to locate those friends on a map. 

Dodgeball meets IM.  It sounds a lot like Loopt to me, but I can’t compare as Loopt isn’t yet available anywhere but the US. 

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Palringo launches Push-to-Talk on iPhone.

by alec on August 19, 2008

Today Palringo is unveiling their “vocal instant messaging” on iPhone.  It lets users send the equivalent of a text message, but by voice.  Sound familiar?  Of course.  It’s the service we’ve all come to know and love as “push to talk”.  But unlike traditional push to talk services, this one spans handsets from Apple, Nokia, RIM and Windows Mobile OEMS, plus carriers.

That’s a paradigm shifter.

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Palringo launches mobile IM client

June 11, 2008

Palringo makes it’s debut in North America today. It’s a cross platform multi-headed IM client for mobile devices that supports all of the popular IM services available. Plus it has a nifty voice chat feature that sounds a lot like the very popular push-t0-talk feature available on some networks. Palringo is available for Windows Mobile, [...]

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