We’re really pleased to announce that Palringo has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Best Use of GPS or Location Technology on Mobile category. The Webby Awards are like the Oscars of the Internet so we’re delighted to be chosen.
But while nomination is an honour, we also want to win. And that’s where [...]

Another first from Palringo. We are now available on the Android Market.
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Popular mobile instant messaging application Palringo is now available on the Android Market.  Using Palringo, Android users can chat to their friends on Google Talk, MSN, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, iChat, QQ and other popular messaging services and social networks.
Palringo also enables Android [...]

We are now looking for Blackberry alpha testers who would be willing to provide feedback in exchange for getting their hands on pre-release builds.
Email support@palringo.com with ‘BB Alpha’ in the subject and let us know why you think you’d be a great alpha tester! Remember to include details of which model you will be able [...]

For the first time, Mobile World TV is enabling real-time interaction with visitors to Mobile World Congress – powered by Palringo.

Simply by downloading the free Palringo application and joining the MWTV [Mobile World TV] group, Congress visitors open up a direct line to the producers and editors of Mobile World TV, enabling them to [...]

Come and meet Palringo’s Founder and CTO, Martin Rosinski, and myself at Mobile World Congress.  We will be exhibiting at the UK Trade and Investment Stand on AV26 Avenida. Please stop by and say hello. Both of us will be at Mobile Sunday so look out for us. Even better, Palringo will be one of [...]

In a recent study in the UK, commissioned by BT Global Services, The Work Foundation has concluded that social media like IM can help communications in the office.  More than 45% said that they use social media on a daily basis. And, if your’re older, you might not like new technology, but you definitely use. [...]

Palringo has been nominated by the London Chapter of MobileMOnday to to be its nominee for the Mobile Peer Awards. We are part of a select group of 42 winners chosen out of 164 candidates from all over the world.
We are crossing our fingers and hope that the international jury will choose Palringo as one [...]

Yesterday, Virgin Mobile announced that they were going to offer Free Instant Messaging. Wow, I can’t wait.  But,  you will only be able to download onto 3 devices and you will only be able to use Windows Live Messenger. Why would I want to be locked into one network when my friends are on two [...]

If you feel like some light entertainment, you can listen to my interview with Martyn Davies of voipuser.org,  where we talk about a range of messaging-related subjects. One subject we don’t about is Voip. We will have to leave that interview to another day!

Carl Ford writes about presence and Instant Messaging and how VoIP needs to reinvent itself by moving away from a focus on cheap minutes and emphasie the cool apps that are now available. The same holds true for mobile and he specifically mentions the rich messaging  capabilities (text, audio and pictures) of Palringo.
Increasingly, presence, instant [...]