Facebook released an application of testing on Tuesday called Messenger for iPhone and Android.Facebook Messenger app for smartphones in TuesdayFacebook executives have spoken of the need for change in the wireless tech giant industryOther offer similar software for mobile phones

(CNN) --Smartphone owners may have to ask: by what text when there is Facebook Messenger?

It is a question that lament that carriers cellular as the pile of players in technology in what is known as the mobile messaging space.

Facebook joined the fray on Tuesday with the release of Messenger for iPhone and Android.

Function of messages from Facebook, which allows people to communicate privately with friends in social network and recently known email address, is already integrated into Facebook applications. However, the independent new Messenger software is a cornerstone for the ambition of Facebook to become Centre of telephone communications, Facebook employees working in the messaging products have said in interviews.

To design the app, Facebook acquired the team that built a program called Beluga. It allows users to include photos and coordinates of location with each message and you can also send text messages to telephone numbers, as the new Facebook application.

Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook product manager, discussed the potential need for a client spent in an interview in March, days after Beluga engineers began the company in Palo Alto, California.

"Just one click from the home screen is a valuable feature," he said, contrasts with the need to open the complete implementation of Facebook search for new messages. "It has been created specifically for mobile-mobile." Our messages things built a convergence between mobile and Web email and a lot of things. "

Bosworth suggested that an independent Messenger was "the next step" in Facebook plans. Apparently it was.

But the cell operators that derive substantial benefits to the plans of the text messages and fees for each message, on the road, said Bosworth. How to manage their SMS networks is seen by the visionaries as controlled tech, drown. (SMS stands for Short Messaging Service, another name for text messages).

Facebook is made up by people who breathe the ethical hacker. Before this summer, for example, Facebook hired George Hotz, aka GeoHot, hacked iPhone and PlayStation 3 software. Networks should be malleable, these people say often.

"" SMS for SMS: those who are controlled by companies, "Bosworth said during the interview since March.""It is a closed-loop".

Apple, whose founders famous "blue box" construction equipment for decades to enabling free calls over the phone, to the chagrin of telecommunications companies, apparently also buy in this thinking. This fall, Apple add a mobile application called iMessage on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, which can be overlooked cell carrier infrastructure granting free text messages to other users of Apple devices.

Similarly, Research in Motion has BlackBerry Messenger. Google offers two services: Huddles, which is part of Google's social network +, and Google voice.

A dedicated application can be implemented in, say, their mother to ween smartphone away from AT & T or Verizon Wireless text messaging services and a network of free communication that uses tiny amounts of data.

"The people, is a bridge - like, ' Oh, I know how this works." This is great,'"Said Bosworth,." These types of applications "are having SMS and transfer of this closed-loop thing and in another space", added.

"This is an area that is very exciting and hot and interesting," Bosworth said. "I don't think anyone has the answer yet." "I think that Facebook messages is likely substrate that these things have just been functioning".

A spokesman for AT & T declined to comment. Verizon has said that he intends to eventually move all of its services in its data network generation 4 G LTE. The company has not said how different characteristics would be price.

Text messaging software alternatives could pose a threat to the existing money makers, but companies need to find or create other channels penalty receivable, head of marketing for Verizon Wireless Marni Walden said in an interview in January.

"Will always be a place where we must evolve how we generate revenue for the company," Walden said. "But we are not going to escape from the innovation that is happening there." "We are going to make sure that better innovate or integrate it better into our devices than anyone else, as opposed to the placement of a garden".

That, arguably the technorati: LOL.

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London Police is the publication of photos of suspected rioters on his Flickr page and asking the public to help identify them.BlackBerry blog is hacked after smartphone maker says it may cooperate with the police in London
News reports say that protesters in London have used BlackBerry Messenger plan mayhem
Online groups are trying to identify rioters of images from surveillance cameras

(CNN) - after three days of rioting and looting in the streets, the riots in London moves to the Web.

Research on the BlackBerry blog within the movement was hacked on Tuesday after the Canadian smartphone maker suggested that it will cooperate with the police in London to help identify the rioters who may have used a BlackBerry Messenger service plan of mayhem.

A group of hacker named TeaMp0isoN took credit in the attack, which involved the publication of a statement on the blog of BlackBerry before RIM removed.

"Dear coast;" United Kingdom police and will assist because if u do innocent members of the public who were in the wrong place at the wrong time and owned a blackberry get charged for no reason at all, "the statement read in part." Then he threatened to make public a database of personal information of RIM employees.

Security blogger Graham Cluley said Tuesday was not clear if the hackers managed to publish in the BlackBerry blog due to a software vulnerability or because one of its administrators had cracked password.

The hack followed a statement feed on Monday night in Twitter the United Kingdom BlackBerry said, "we are for those affected by the riots in London." "We have committed ourselves to the authorities to help in any way possible."

A RIM spokesperson issued a statement to the Guardian and other media UK, saying that the company will meet a British law forces to surrender to the authorities its encrypted network information.

According to various news reports, many demonstrators UK have been organized through BlackBerry Messenger, a free tool for instant messaging that allows groups of smartphone users to communicate in private. Relatively low price of phones have become popular among British youth; a recent study by the telecommunications UK Ofcom research firm found that 37% of British teenagers prefer BlackBerrys other smartphones.

Some government officials in London asked RIM to turn off the BlackBerry Messenger temporarily to prevent further disturbances. A representative of RIM did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

On Tuesday, meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police of London began the publication of photos of suspected looters on his Flickr page and asking the public to help identify them. Someone another created a blog full of images of alleged criminals, to catch a Looter in Tumblr but was overwhelmed with submissions and stopped updating on Tuesday night.

Other groups online are swearing even use facial recognition software to identify the rioters of London's public images captured by surveillance cameras.

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