Presence and IntComm WG

["Callahan, Tim" <>]

Hands-on: IM+ for iPhone's speech-to-text feature
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10322240-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=im
>"New! Try unique speech recognition option - free for limited time!"

Looking at the device-specific pages, the above line was also seen on the 
Blackberry page - but not the PocketPC, Android, Palm, Symbian, j2me pages.. 

THIS line actually got my attention more than the speech-text feature:
>Stay online in IM Push mode and save the battery life!
>In this mode IM+ is not running, you remain online and continue receiving 
>IMs as e-mails, so you can reply to them right away.
In our previous testing, we succeeded in getting mobile+Jabber+MUC working.  
However:  "always on" presence --> radio (WiFI and/or Cell) in constant 
use--> quickly drained battery -->can't use mobile MUC, even though it works! 
 I'm not sure how their push mode works with Jabber,  but I hope to find out. 
 It is still fairly expensive for a mobile app, but the above features could 
make it worth it.

This also looks worth investigating -
Conduct virtual meetings with people from all public IM systems
http://persistent.im/
http://persistent.im/about.jsp
>Each conference shows up and behaves as a contact in the IM contacts' list. 
>Conference participants may use accounts in AIM®/iChat, MSN®/Windows >Live™ 
>Messenger, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, Jabber®, Google Talk™ and MySpaceIM and keep using 
>their preferred instant messenger client. 
They appear to be targeting business uses of "MUCs", which is a good thing.  
I didn't dig any deeper, so perhaps this is just a managed service on a 
Jabber server with the appropriate transports, or perhaps there's more to it.