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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 folks at Skype have rolled out a new version of their popular IM and video chatting app for iPhone and iPad. Version 3.6 delivers multiple enhancements, as well as various fixes.Over at the Skype blog, Beom Soo Park enumerates the key updates for the newly released build, Skype 3.6.97.The developers made chat imp... |
15 December 2011
09:56 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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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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Regional Canadian carrier Public Mobile has just announced the availability of another feature-phone, the ZTE E520.This is the third ZTE handset introduced by Public Mobile, and the sixth feature-phone released by the carrier since 2010.Although the ZTE E520 has little to offer in comparison with modern smartphones, ... |
26 September 2011
15:01 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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Skype has just rolled out a new update to their popular IM and video chatting application, directing it at Mac users with a fix for crashing calls, and some code corrections for clients used in Norwegian.Beom Soo Park makes it official on the Skype Garage blog, writing, “Today we've released an update to M... |
1 September 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Either it's an email or a text message people have always wondered how fast they can communicate with their friend and families.Is their message reaching in time or did the friend received the message and read it? These questions are about to receive their answer as Facebook has just announced the availability o... |
10 August 2011
02:54 GMT |
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The iPad-optimized version of Skype iOS has been let loose in the Apple App Store, following a temporary discontinuation of the app.Released ‘prematurely’ and then pulled, the Skype for iPad application is now officially live in the App Store where customers can download the tablet-optimized software free... |
2 August 2011
09:57 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new flavor of its popular BlackBerry Messenger, and some leaked screenshots with it have just emerged into the wild providing info on what the company might pack the application with. We already knew that the handset vendor w... |
13 April 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The developers of IM+ for iOS have announced a contest where participants get the chance to win an iPad 2 by filming themselves using the company’s instant messaging application.SHAPE Services encourages users (and non-users) of their popular IM+ chatting application to shoot a video of themselves in an unusual... |
29 March 2011
07:38 GMT |
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SHAPE Services, the only company with apps that have reached top rankings in four iTunes App Store categories (Social Networking, Business, Utilities and Productivity), has released IM+ 4.7, an update to its popular instant messaging app for iOS devices.
SHAPE's IM+ app is a popular instant messaging client f... |
27 December 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that a new worm spreading via instant messaging applications is capable of targeting users in twenty different languages.The code of the worm, which is detected as W32.Yimfoca.B, contains a routine that checks for the location of the user and sends spam in the appropriate langu... |
8 December 2010
12:51 GMT |
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IM+ by SHAPE Services has received an important update, which delivers iOS 4.2 fast app switching, allowing users to stay connected to GTalk, Yahoo, MSN/Live Messenger, AIM/iChat, ICQ, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and Jabber whle using other apps. SHAPE is the only company with apps that have reached top rankings in f... |
1 December 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Recently, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has removed an application from its BlackBerry App World, namely Kik, which already has a number of almost one million users, and also terminated the relations with Kik.The popular instant messaging solution was reportedly removed from the list of applications... |
24 November 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new worm spreading on instant messaging applications by luring users to malicious link via spam messages.Rogue messages posted from compromised computers on Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live read: "Foto :D http://[censored]otoon.com/photo.php?=[random_number]"According to secu... |
17 November 2010
12:44 GMT |
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After being forced to drop support for Skype services effective October 31, Nimbuzz, the all-in-one messaging application, sees itself having to do the same for ICQ. Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian company that owns the ICQ instant messaging application has asked Nimbuzz to remove support for their protocol sta... |
17 November 2010
04:56 GMT |
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In less than two months after its release, Microsoft is enhancing the experiences available through Windows Live Messenger 2011. The Wave 4 iteration of the company’s instant messaging client has evolved with the introduction of Games Tab, designed to kick up a notch the social and casual gaming capabilities of... |
15 November 2010
10:16 GMT |
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A new feature has been just announced as available for mobile phone users who take advantage of Yahoo! Mobile Web Messenger on their devices, namely SMS capabilities. The new feature does not require for users to install anything new on their mobile phones, but only to head over to m.yahoo.com/messenger to enjoy Yah... |
23 October 2010
07:09 GMT |
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ProcessOne, the company that launched TextOne for iPhone a while ago, has just announced that its successful messaging service has been ported on Android. TextOne allows users to communicate with friends via instant messages at no cost. Furthermore, the application is a cross-platform smartphone to smartphone messagi... |
7 July 2010
11:25 GMT |
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After almost three months of testing, Twitter for Blackberry smartphones is finally available as a stable version and can be downloaded from Blackberry App World. RIM stated that it took so long to release a final version because it wanted to receive full feedback from its customers regarding the various stages of de... |
7 July 2010
05:43 GMT |
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SHAPE Services has announced that it has updated its IM+: Instant Messaging for BlackBerry application to version 8.5. The all-in-one messaging app has received a major facelift and now features a completely redesigned user interface with new themes, convenient history review for all conversations, as well as improve... |
6 July 2010
11:48 GMT |
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In mid-2009, Microsoft announced that it had kicked off legal action against spammers using its instant messaging client to send users unsolicited messages. As a direct consequence of the software giant’s lawsuit, Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company owned by Christian and Henrick Heilesen, has been prohib... |
12 March 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Long time offered for free, included in Windows, and now available via the Windows Essentials package, Windows Live Messenger is used by in excess of 300 million people, according to statistics released by Microsoft. Contributing decisively to the Redmond company’s popularity is the fact that the application i... |
10 February 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently working to push Windows Live Messenger to the next level, and the company is past the dogfooding stage for its next iteration of the instant messaging client. At the end of 2009, testing for Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 was extended beyond Microsoft employees “eating their own dog food&r... |
4 January 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Security researchers report on a new phishing campaign that circulates on Yahoo! Messenger and is instrumented with the help of hijacked accounts. A spammed rogue video link takes users to a fake Facebook login page.The new attack was discovered by researchers from enterprise software giant CA. "While using Yahoo Mes... |
14 December 2009
06:35 GMT |
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BlackBerry mobile phone users can now enjoy a brand new application on their handsets, as Nimbuzz has just announced on Thursday that it now delivers a mobile instant messaging app for BlackBerry smartphones. The popular IM application is now available on a series of mobile phones from the Canadian handset vendor Re... |
4 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced on Friday that users of its popular Nokia Messaging service would be able to enjoy the Windows Live Messenger on their homescreens. The company has included the widely known Microsoft instant messaging application in the push-email service so as to provide users with more co... |
21 November 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Scareware distributors have started using Skype as a channel for pushing their fake security software. The spam masquerades as official online notifications and deceptive account names are used.Fake AVs, also known as scareware or rogueware, are useless applications that trick users into paying for license fees in or... |
6 October 2009
10:17 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is set to deliver tomorrow a new software solution to users of its BlackBerry smartphones in the form of BlackBerry Messenger 5.0. The new BlackBerry messenger comes to the table with a wide range of new features and seems determined to bring an enhanced user experience ... |
6 October 2009
09:45 GMT |
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Leading push-enabled mobile email and messaging solution provider SEVEN has announced recently that it has introduced to its portfolio a new solution for enhancing the capabilities of any mobile phone, the SEVEN Mobile Instant Messaging application. According to the company, the new software is based on its push plat... |
1 October 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Security researchers from network protection vendor Fortinet warn that a new version of Pushbot is using a social networking lure to spread via instant messaging protocols. The worm gives its authors the ability to control the infected computers via IRC.According to Derek Manky, a security researcher at Fortinet who ... |
14 September 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Yahoo seems to have little luck getting the few people still using the ancient Yahoo Messenger 6 and 7 to upgrade. In early June, the Internet-based company announced that support for Messenger versions 6 through 7.5 would be dropped in August with users asked to move to the latest Messenger 9. The three months appar... |
12 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, AOL introduced a new feature for its instant-messaging client, AIM, the Lifestream, which allowed users to view the status updates of their friends from Twitter and Facebook by displaying their stream inside the application. Yahoo and Microsoft have also introduced similar features, but now AO... |
8 September 2009
05:42 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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Yahoo's popular instant messenger client, aptly named Yahoo Messenger, is getting ready for a major update. With the turmoil surrounding the company's search business and the shift in focus towards content and more social features, the new Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta is in line with the Internet giant's ne... |
25 August 2009
04:47 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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Since Google Wave was announced at the Google I/O 09 Conference in San Francisco almost two months ago, there hasn't been that much new information on the communication system that aims to replace email, instant messaging and just about any other form of communication and collaboration online today. Development ... |
23 July 2009
11:05 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
04:34 GMT |
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Nokia Beta Labs have released into the wild a new version of the Nokia Messaging IM application, which comes in the form of a Java-hosted test version and is available only for the E75. However, the new version shows people what the upcoming Messaging/IM hybrid application should look like and, according to the devel... |
1 July 2009
09:12 GMT |
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The Netherlands-based Nimbuzz instant messaging and VOIP client has announced a new contest challenging graphic designers everywhere to come up with up to five new emoticons for the software. The contest opens today and will run until July 27. The winning entry will be included in an upcoming version of both the desk... |
30 June 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Beejive, Inc. announced today the release of the BeejiveIM for iPhone 3.0, an application meant to offer users the possibility to enjoy the availability of push technology for the iPhone. The new and highly customizable iPhone app also offers support for IM clients like AIM/iChat/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, M... |
23 June 2009
12:00 GMT |
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Integrated online chat has become increasingly popular and these days it looks like every service has a chat component built in. After Facebook first launched the feature, which turned out to be a success, many social networking sites, but also other services, started deploying it as well. But the problem is that som... |
10 June 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger is one of the most widely used Instant Messaging clients in the world but with a large install base comes a large set of problems, one of them being that many users don't update to the latest version as soon as it is available so backwards compatibility and interoperability is a main concern. How... |
10 June 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Malware analysts from Vietnamese security vendor Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkis) warn of a new attack targeting Yahoo! Messenger users, whose accounts are stolen and subsequently used to send spam. The researchers are expecting this form of attack to spread and affect other instant messaging applications in th... |
19 May 2009
08:39 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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Whatever you do, do not change you email address for Windows Live Messenger, even if Microsoft’s instant messaging client tells you to. On April 7, 2009, the software giant revealed that the Windows Live Messenger had started notifying users that they needed to get a new email address in order to continue being... |
8 April 2009
14:21 GMT |
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While being spotted in the wild a few weeks ago and lots of leaked photos and details have surfaced on it since then, the new Motorola Evoke QA4 has been officially announced by its maker only today. According to the mobile phone manufacturer, the new handset comes to the market as a “socially-inclined device.&... |
30 March 2009
11:11 GMT |
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