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Mobile instant messaging through Hubbub

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Associating online buddies with musical notes, Hubbub lets users (on both PCs and handhelds) interact by way of opportunistic impromptu exchanges, even as they move about.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 9
          September 2002
          99 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/567498
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