{"id":19488,"date":"2013-05-21T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:40:33","slug":"interoperability-onslaught-bb-messenger-leaves-bb-os-outlook-chatting-with-google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/software\/mac_os\/interoperability-onslaught-bb-messenger-leaves-bb-os-outlook-chatting-with-google-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Interoperability Onslaught: BB Messenger Leaves BB OS, Outlook Chatting With Google Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the words of Doctor Peter Venkman, “Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats, living together!\u00a0Mass hysteria!”<\/p>\n
That was my initial reaction to the news that BlackBerry has created iOS and Android versions<\/a>\u00a0of what was once the\u00a0linchpin\u00a0of a mobile empire: BlackBerry Messenger. Known as BBM to users, it was also the one thing that kept people on BlackBerry phones despite a lack of apps and weak hardware. Now, you can use the service on the two biggest mobile OSes out there. This, of course, begs the question: Why buy a Blackberry? If you want to try it out, you have to hold tight until this summer.<\/p>\n In other shocking news of companies playing nice, Microsoft has enabled chat functionality<\/a> with Google users on Outlook.com and SkyDrive. With Google’s new unified Hangout protocol (codenamed internally as Babble<\/a>), this new function is a potentially huge feature that should allow dedicated Microsoft users casual access to friends who live in the land of Google.<\/p>\n