Xbox 360 Gamers to Get Instant Message Mobile Alerts

Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games console, according to an interview with Microsoft UK mobility business manager Jason Langridg on the BBC News website:

Mr Langridge explained that a team at Microsoft were working on integrating Xbox Live with its instant messaging program, MSN Messenger. The alerts would be sent over the internet via Xbox Live and come to a mobile over the air as an instant message.

“It just pops up saying ‘Dinky Dave wants to play Project Gotham Racing’ with you,” said Mr Langridge. He said he could not say when the system would go live on the Xbox 360 console, but added: “It is six months or so. It is very, very near.”

“You can see the integration that we are building with the Xbox 360, with phones and with PCs,” he said.

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