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The latest version for Miranda is, like many others before it, a maintenance build that simply fixes issues in order to improve overall stability of the program and its functionality.
As such, Miranda 0.9.43 brings to the table better image services and repairs various problems with three of the bunch of supported p... |
8 February 2012
04:18 GMT |
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The latest build for Miranda IM is 0.9.42. It is not a major release, but it touches on the overall stability and functionality of the application.
Most of the changes available for this version refer to MSN-related problems. Login issues should now be eliminated and the media sharing pop-up has been removed. There ... |
24 January 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Miranda IM has reached build 0.9.41, which features mainly bug fixes for Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and MSN protocols.
The current release addresses problems such as ignoring rich text messages in the case Gadu-Gadu. Improvements regarding this protocol relate to the blocking/ignoring system.
In the case of Jabber, the deve... |
10 January 2012
07:46 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) analyzed the preview version of the latest AOL Instant Messenger and concluded that users should not install it due to some serious privacy concerns it raised.
The first issue is that conversation logs are stored by default and secondly, all private instant messages are scann... |
5 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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The latest release of Pidgin, has landed and includes only bug fixes. These affect a hefty number of the supported protocols.
Pidgin 2.10.1 mends problems with AIM and ICQ protocols, where validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management could cause remotely-triggered crashes.
In the case of IR... |
15 December 2011
09:29 GMT |
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A new release of Miranda is out and it brings to the table a sum of bug fixes and overall stability improvements. As usual, there aren’t too many entries in the change list.
In the previous versions of Miranda IM, the profile manager would not react to changes made inside subfolders. The developer announces th... |
14 December 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Lately, Yahoo! makes the headlines only in news that announce stake selling and the general downslide of the company. Despite all this, the development team for their instant messaging app has been working on a new version of the product and the result is Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.152. The new release introduces a sle... |
30 November 2011
04:06 GMT |
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The new version of Miranda instant messaging software does not show too many changes. There are no new features added, only bug fixes for two protocols: Yahoo and Jabber. The previous update squashed bugs relating to AIM protocol.
Yahoo-related repairs eliminated a bug that would interrupt compressed connections. Wi... |
28 October 2011
08:50 GMT |
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It hasn’t been too long since the last Miranda update, which saw several bugs fixed and improvement of overall stability for the application.The previous version also cared for some MSN-related issues with file transfers and receiving messages from Yahoo! Contacts. With the latest version of the instant messeng... |
10 October 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Orchestra, an all-new to-do utility for iPhone and iPod touch users, is currently being featured on iTunes as the app of the week. The software boasts a built-in chat client, powerful organizing features, and an unbeatable price - free!According to its developers, “Orchestra is the to-do list that's connec... |
26 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Firefox has always been Mozilla's shining star, but Thunderbird is used and loved by millions of people. Lately, the project seems to have gained some energy and things are moving a bit faster. It may have something to do with the adoption of the rapid release cycle that Mozilla has mandated.But email, widesprea... |
20 September 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger continues to be the most used instant messaging client worldwide, with a market share of over 40%. Microsoft’s IM client, now at version 2011, has been stripped from the Windows platform years ago, and is now offered as a part of the Windows Live Essentials Cloud bundle of applications a... |
14 June 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Meebo has been doing quite a few interesting things to expand its user base and is now having another go at it with 'website check-ins.' Meebo plans to roll out a new browser extension, dubbed a MiniBar, which will enable users to check into any website they visit for their friends to see.The Meebo MiniBar ... |
15 November 2010
05:36 GMT |
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AOL has seen better days and, as its efforts to turn around don’t seem to be paying off, it has one less headache to worry about. The company has announced that it has sold ICQ, one of its two IM services, to Russian Internet giant Digital Sky Technologies (DST). ICQ was bought for $187.5 million, a decent sum ... |
28 April 2010
10:28 GMT |
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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
04:56 GMT |
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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
05:51 GMT |
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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
10:41 GMT |
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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
05:19 GMT |
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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
05:54 GMT |
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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
08:11 GMT |
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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
03:35 GMT |
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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
14:01 GMT |
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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
07:11 GMT |
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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
03:28 GMT |
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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
11:39 GMT |
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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
10:46 GMT |
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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
05:27 GMT |
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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
05:23 GMT |
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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
09:38 GMT |
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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
03:33 GMT |
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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
05:55 GMT |
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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
11:42 GMT |
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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
07:55 GMT |
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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
10:45 GMT |
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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
09:06 GMT |
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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
10:45 GMT |
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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
05:44 GMT |
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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
05:17 GMT |
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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
07:13 GMT |
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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
06:41 GMT |
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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
12:27 GMT |
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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
06:26 GMT |
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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
06:29 GMT |
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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
10:06 GMT |
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