An announcement today by Geodesic Information Systems reveals the company has signed up with the Blackberry ISV Alliance. Geodesic is the leading provider of award winning mobile and desktop solutions for instant messaging. Blackberry users can now enjoy innovative mobile services by Geodesic.
Geodesic plans to offer its award winning mobile services to support a wide array of Blackberry smartphones which includes the BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry 8800 series smartphones.
Arvind Venkateswaran, Geodesic’s senior vice president of business development and general manager of U.S. operations, mentions, “We’re delighted to be a BlackBerry Alliance Program member and offer their users critical business communications tools. By bringing IM beyond the desktop and enabling anytime instant messaging, business users will be able to enhance their mobile communications and improve productivity–a win-win for employers and BlackBerry smartphone users.”
Even though there is a considerable rise in the use of SMS, IM clients on the phone are also growing significantly revealing a drastic shift in usage patterns. Cellphones today are not just seen as mere communication devices; mobile users today rely on them for entertainment, information and commerce as well. Gartner further asserts that IM will eventually take over SMS to become a mass-market application for mobiles.
Mundu IM, the leading universal mobile IM solution and one of Geodesic’s flagship products has been successful in combining all of the most popular IM services like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, ICQ and Google Talk. Users can enjoy seamless chat from their home, office or on the go because of the enhanced conjunction across mobile, web and desktop platforms. Integrating with Jabber for enterprise IM, Mundu IM also supports leading web browsers namely including IE, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
Geodesics IM service is known to interoperate with leading consumer IM services in addition to offering some highly advanced features. Some of the features comprised are conferencing capabilities across IM services multi-lingual chat, extensive presence management and push email.
Identified as one of the top mobile applications in the market, the innovative IM service has also been honoured with a series of industry awards.
With more than 750 million active users, more than 1.8 billion Internet-enabled handsets have shipped globally. Furthermore in 2007, operators worldwide witnessed mobile data (non-voice and non-SMS) revenue of more than $60 billion.