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There seems to be a lot of activity from Russia lately when it comes to internet services and companies. The Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies has already made a name for itself with after the investments in Facebook and Zynga, but there are plenty of others who are looking to venture out of the home... |
16 February 2010
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If there was any doubt that Facebook is very serious about chat, it's gone now. The social network has rolled out support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol almost two years after it announced it was working on it. What this means is that you will be able to chat with your Facebook friends using the desktop and mobil... |
11 February 2010
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AOL has been an independent company for a couple of months now and, much like Yahoo, has been looking to shed some unnecessary weight. Among the products put up for sale is one of the two IM services the company runs, namely ICQ. Certainly not as popular as AIM in the US, it has a sizeable following in other parts o... |
8 February 2010
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Google Wave may not be the hottest thing in the tech world at the moment after a slightly disappointing wider roll-out, but that may be a good thing as the team can now focus on improving the service for the users that matter, the ones that actually have a use for Wave rather than treat it like the latest novelty it... |
21 January 2010
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TweetSwitch has come up with a nice idea in re-routing and re-transmitting tweets to the user's desktop IM client. When direct access to Twitter is blocked or unavailable, the startup's newly launched service will help users send and receive status updates through a simple IM chat window. Currently in alph... |
16 January 2010
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The Meebo toolbar you've been seeing adorning the bottom of some larger sites and blogs enabling users to chat with their friends and share content with them is now opening up to anyone. Up till now, only relatively large sites were able to implement the tool, and web masters had no way of adding the functionali... |
22 December 2009
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Originally developed by Adam Iser, Adium is a popular instant messaging application for Mac OS X supporting most IM protocols available today. The latest (beta) version of the software delivers general fixes and enhancements, as well as an updated Libpurple. Adium combines numerous IM protocols, such as the AOL Inst... |
6 November 2009
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While it is in the process of forcing users of its IM client to upgrade to the latest version of the client-based application, Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Live Messenger. Designed in order to allow end users to “IM anywhere,” the new flavor of the IM client is exclusively web-based, ... |
13 October 2009
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Many have been saying there is no money to be made from instant messaging but Meebo may beg to differ as the company has been seeing massive growth in user numbers and in revenue lately. The site, which allows users to connect to a variety of IM services and also has tools for other sites to integrate chat functional... |
7 October 2009
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Despite Yahoo being all caught up in a grand advertising campaign to solidify its brand and core properties, at the end of the day, it all gets down to the actual products so it's nice to see someone is actually working at Yahoo. As Yahoo Messenger 10 is getting closer to launch, a new beta version, Messenger 10... |
30 September 2009
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Google is ready to expand its testing of the upcoming communications platform Google Wave to include 100,000 lucky new users. The move was first revealed a couple of months ago and now Wave's creators have more details on the wider release and on the product itself. There are several ways of getting your hands o... |
30 September 2009
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Google is getting closer to launching its upcoming revolutionary communications service Wave and will roll out the product for 100,000 new users and businesses come September 30. There has been a lot of anticipation for Google Wave ever since it was introduced at the beginning of this summer but not that many people ... |
28 September 2009
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A study released by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) shows how in the last six years, users have massively shifted their interest to content and news websites from classic IM and email clients. The research (Internet Activity Index – IAI) was carried out by a US-based industry trade organization that stu... |
17 September 2009
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Skype, the popular VoIP app now available for iPhone too, has received an update delivering over a dozen enhancements and changes, including the ability to set up call forwarding from your iPhone. Skype is free to download and use on any iPhone or iPod touch model running iPhone OS 2.2 or later. According to the iTu... |
8 September 2009
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You have to stay connected. This is probably the single statement agreed upon globally. Keep up with what your friends are doing on social networks, crowd-source new concepts, communicate in more diverse and feature-rich ways. Pidgin is a great tool for this always-connected world we are living in, because it enables... |
31 August 2009
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The latest upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) was released on August 19th, 2009, and continues to be up for grabs, but the release will not be available only as a standalone download. In fact, Microsoft has already started to serve Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) 14.0.8089.726 as an automatic update. The ... |
28 August 2009
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Developer Adam Iser has released a new version of the popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X, Adium. Replicating most of iChat’s features, Adium can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo etc. Fans can download the latest stable and beta versions of the software right here, on Softpedia. Adium combines nume... |
21 August 2009
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Pidgin users have a lot of things to be happy about with the release of the 2.6.0 version of their favorite instant messaging application, announced this morning by John Bailey. Thanks to the hard work of developers and contributors, the new release has a plethora of new features, about 221 bug fixes, all listed in a... |
19 August 2009
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It looks like Yahoo! has proven to everyone that it really listens to its clients. The company has broadened the number of video-sharing websites that is now supported in its instant messaging client – Yahoo! Messenger. There are now 14 video-sharing providers supported with the latest version. Messenger 9.0 w... |
5 August 2009
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Microsoft's instant messaging client turned 10 today, July 22, 2009. It was on July 22, 1999 that the IM client became available to the public, although, at that time, the innovative communication solution was launched under the MSN brand, since Windows Live was yet to go, well, live. 10 years after the launch o... |
22 July 2009
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In a move designed to stop the contributors to the process of undermining the security and privacy of Windows Live users, Microsoft announced that it had debuted legal action against Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company led by Christian Heilesen and Henrick Heilesen. The civil lawsuit filed in King County Superi... |
17 July 2009
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Originally developed by Adam Iser, Adium is a popular instant messaging application for Mac OS X supporting most IM protocols available today. The latest (beta) version of the software delivers general enhancements, as well as an updated pidgin-facebookchat, and a fix for Yahoo! subscribers. According to the release... |
16 July 2009
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Microsoft is currently less than a month away from celebrating the 10th anniversary of its instant messaging client. Initially labeled MSN Messenger, the IM app was transitioned under the Windows Live brand and is now Windows Live Messenger. Come July 22, 2009, Windows Live Messenger will be 10 years old, and the sof... |
25 June 2009
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Facebook has been adding services and features since its inception, trying to appeal to as much of its 200 million plus user base as it can. One of the features that proved very popular, so popular that MySpace has implemented it itself, is the integrated chat web client FbChat. The product has been growing in featur... |
16 June 2009
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Come July 22nd, 2009, Microsoft's instant messaging client will celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Now labeled Windows Live Messenger, and having been transitioned under the Windows Live brand, the application was known as MSN Messenger at launch, in the past millennium. The latest migration suffered by the IM c... |
16 June 2009
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Windows Live Messenger is, as a general rule, available for free to all users worldwide. But of course that there are the proverbial exceptions to every rule. And Microsoft's instant messaging client is an illustrative example in this context. This because the Redmond company has instituted Windows Live Messenge... |
21 May 2009
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Adium is a free instant-messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and, most recently, Twitter and IRC. Version 1.4b1 is now available for free download and, for the first time in the app's history, requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. When it was initially released, Adium 1.3 ad... |
20 May 2009
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Adium, the popular IM app for Mac OS X, has received an important update, mostly delivering Facebook fixes. Adium replicates many of the features (and the look) of Apple's own IM client, iChat, and combines an array of IM protocols. According to the changelog for Adium 1.3.4, Facebook fixes include: · U... |
18 May 2009
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At just a little over one month since Windows Live Messenger went live, Microsoft has introduced the first refresh to the solution. Performance improvements were among the changes delivered by the refresh, the Redmond company confirmed. Users will be able to notice that examples of the integration of Windows Live Mes... |
30 April 2009
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Microsoft is moving ahead with the evolution of Windows Live Wave 3, and in this regard it has introduced instant messaging functionality to its online email service. As of the start of this week, Windows Live Hotmail users will be able to IM with their friends via Windows Live Messenger, right from their email accou... |
21 April 2009
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Microsoft is boasting the advantages delivered by using multiple antimalware engines in it security solution for corporate IM environments. Forefront Security for Office Communications Server is just such a product, the Redmond company emphasized, indicating that customers benefit from antimalware engines developed i... |
9 April 2009
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Besides announcing the availability of Yahoo! Mobile, an open and highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet available on both the mobile Web and as an iPhone app, Yahoo also previewed the first Messenger client for iPhone. While the Yahoo! Mobile iPhone app is already available in the App Store, Yahoo... |
1 April 2009
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Just ahead of MIX09 I told you that Microsoft was gearing up to make available the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. And in fact, as of the first day of the conference, the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit is now live and available to developers. The toolkit is essentially a collection of resources including a se... |
19 March 2009
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March 18, 2009 will be synonymous with the introduction of the new Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for social websites. March 18 is also the first day of MIX09, the Redmond company's Internet-centric conference in Las Vegas. This year, the Messenger web platform will be showcased in no less than three session... |
17 March 2009
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Not even a day into the release of version 1.3.3 RC2, Adium is at its final 1.3.3 release adding tons of changes, major and small, as well as bug fixes. Adium, the popular IM app for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, is free to download and use for as long as you wish.According to the changelog for Adium 1.3.3, major chang... |
20 February 2009
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Adium, the free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, has reached version 1.3.3 RC2, adding a small fix and a few updates for French-speaking users. The new software is available for free download right here on our web site.According to the changelog, Adium 1.3.3 RC2 fixes AIM Direct IM messages always showing ... |
19 February 2009
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A new version of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac is now available for free download. The latest beta version of Messenger for Mac fixes the privacy feature for users wishing to assign individual stealth settings for their friends, "so if you want to appear online to everyone but not to your boss Joe, you can set yourself to... |
10 February 2009
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A new variant of Windows Live Messenger, but web-based, is now live and accessible to users. However, the release is not a web-based version of the Windows Live Messenger (9.0 – 2009) release. Fact is that the Internet version of the instant messaging client is a project from MSN Taiwan designed to take advanta... |
30 January 2009
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Adium, the free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 1.3.3 RC1, fixing a bunch of issues found in previous versions of the software. The new release is immediately available for free download right here on our web site.According to the changelog, Adium 1.3.3 RC1 fixes sending extend... |
27 January 2009
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Next week, Microsoft is gearing up to make an important step toward unifying the code bases for all the versions of Windows Live Messenger Library. In this context, the Redmond company announced that, by the end of the following week, Windows Live Messenger Library v2.0 would be modified so that it would point to the... |
23 January 2009
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Developed by Adam Iser and Evan Schoenberg, Adium is a fast, fun, and free instant messaging client that supports most existing IM protocols. The latest version of the application includes so many bug fixes you'll probably simply skip the reading part and go straight for the download. But, just in case you'... |
16 January 2009
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The final version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) is available for download. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced during the opening keynote address at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas that Microsoft had wrapped up the development of Windows Live Essentials, a suite... |
8 January 2009
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Microsoft is flexing the social networking muscles of its instant messaging client with the latest release. Windows Live messenger 9.0 (2009) brings to the table a feature dubbed Groups, designed to extend the communication capabilities of the client beyond one-on-one conversations, now helping groups of users talk, ... |
30 December 2008
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Microsoft Messenger for Mac is getting Audio / Video support as soon as next year, the Office for Mac Team has announced on its blog. Mac Mojo has also revealed that the new functionality is cross-platform-compatible. Windows Live Messenger support will also be included, the development team promises. “I wante... |
19 December 2008
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The Windows Live Messenger for Facebook update delivered at the end of the past week was just a preview of the evolution of the desktop instant messaging client. As of December 15, 2008, Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) is one step closer to RTW, with Microsoft making available for download a new release of the IM c... |
16 December 2008
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Just as Google is bundling Chrome with YouTube in order for the success of the service to rub off on the browser, so is Microsoft attempting to increase the installed base of its instant messaging client via the alliance with Facebook. With just so much room for growth on home soil, the path to increased audience is ... |
15 December 2008
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Microsoft will discontinue a tool designed to permit developers to build bots for Windows Live Messenger. Come mid-2009, the Redmond company will completely retire the Windows Live Agents software development kit. The announcement was delivered concomitantly with the availability of the latest version of the SDK, nam... |
28 November 2008
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Microsoft is gearing up to make available for download the gold version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0/2009. The Redmond company has so far managed not to indicate a delivery deadline for the next version of its instant messaging client. In this regard, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc only mentioned that the next ver... |
13 November 2008
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Adium, the free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 1.3.2, switching MSN implementation to Libpurple's recent addition of MSNP15. Besides a new “Bookmark Group Chat,” the “File Transfer” icons and some localization updates, the release mostly packs bug ... |
10 October 2008
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The company that recently made a good deal with T-Mobile, namely OZ Communications, Inc., will be swallowed by the giant Nokia, as the Finnish manufacturer has announced its intention to buy it.By owning OZ's software products, Nokia will be able to offer to its customers easy access to email and Instant Messagi... |
30 September 2008
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