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Miranda 0.9.42 Improves UPnP Port Mapping Behavior

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

Download Miranda 0.9.41

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

Facebook Messenger for Windows Released

We were in the know about Facebook working on its own chat client, but no download link was available at that time. Things have changed and now you can download Facebook chat client. Some of the main features of the application are quite obvious, such as exchanging messages with your Facebook friends. However, there...

27 December 2011
05:59 GMT

Sun May Weaken Mercury's Magnetic Field

After a long time studying why Mercury's magnetic field is so weak, researchers were finally able to determine that the planet's magnetism is stifled by the solar wind. The effects are so intense because the planet is very close to the star. Studying magnetism at Mercury is so critically important to scie...

23 December 2011
07:52 GMT

Windows Live Messenger Now Accessible via XMPP Clients

Windows Live Messenger has over 300 million users, but not all of them are able to stay signed in at all times, mainly because there aren’t enough clients out there to provide support for the various platforms they might be using. However, that is about to change, since the Redmond-based software giant has d...

15 December 2011
08:37 GMT

Microsoft Messenger Adds iChat and iOS Hooks

Microsoft has confirmed the public availability of access to the Messenger network via XMPP, an open standard that will allow Apple-developed IM clients to interact with Microsoft users.According to a blog post signed Dare Obasanjo, of the Windows Live team, “anyone can build innovative messaging clients—...

15 December 2011
05:34 GMT

Trillian Astra 5.1 Build 16 Available for Download

Cerulean Studios released a new build for Trillian Astra for Windows, which encompasses a hefty suite of bug fixes. Although no new features have been added, the new Trillian improves compatibility with the supported instant messaging protocols. The repairs take care of issues with protocols ranging from MSN and AOL...

13 December 2011
03:00 GMT

Facebook Messenger to Give FaceTime a Run for Its Money

Facebook Messenger is getting video calls, according to an Italian source claiming that tests are already underway for a new version of the app that integrates Skype functionality.The feature is already available to desktop users via the Facebook web interface and now they want to bring it to mobile devices, accordin...

6 December 2011
09:10 GMT

Three JPL Missions Recognized with Significant Award

Popular Science magazine has just announced that three missions managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, will be recognized by the “Best of What's New” Award in the publication's aviation and space category. PopSci says that the three winners are the NASA Da...

1 December 2011
04:00 GMT

Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.152 Adds Tabbed IMs

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

NASA Extends Mercury Exploration Mission by 1 Year

The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to the innermost planet in our solar system has been extended by a year, officials at the American space agency announce. Originally, the space probe was supposed to cease operations in 2012, but officials decided to grant it ...

17 November 2011
14:01 GMT

Over One Billion Messages Sent on WhatsApp Each Day

WhatsApp, one of the most popular cross-platform messaging services out there, is enjoying increased usage, with over one billion messages being sent on their network each and every day. WhatsApp is available at the moment on a wide range of mobile platforms out there, and users of devices running under iOS, Androi...

31 October 2011
20:01 GMT

Mercury May Feature Hydrogen Geysers

Ever since the MESSENGER space probe reached the innermost planet in our solar system, earlier this year, researchers have been puzzled by hollows the spacecraft detected on the planet's surface. Experts now propose new ideas to explain the formation. The NASA mission's full name is the MErcury Surface, Sp...

31 October 2011
06:45 GMT

Download Facebook Messenger 1.5 for iOS 5

Adding support for Apple’s new iOS 5 and the ability to see who’s online and who’s mobile, a new version of the Facebook Messenger iOS application has been released in the iTunes App Store.As its name implies, Facebook Messenger lets you send messages instantly to other friends who have the app...

20 October 2011
04:39 GMT

Samsung Makes Its ChatON Service Available Worldwide

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just announced that its ChatON messaging service is now available for users all around the world. Only a few days ago, the company made the new service available for the owners of devices running under Google's Android operating system, after initially rel...

18 October 2011
17:21 GMT

Explaining the Configurations of Uranus and Mercury

Astronomers have been struggling to explain numerous odd properties displayed by Mercury and Uranus for many years now, but leading theories were just discredited over the past few days. Now, astronomers begin to search for new explanations of what actually happened. This line of inquiry is very difficult to push f...

7 October 2011
09:50 GMT

Solar Winds Sandblast Mercury's Poles

The innermost planet in our solar system is being subjected to a constant beating at all times. Intense solar winds, which are undiluted due to the close proximity between the two bodies, literally sandblast Mercury's poles, triggering phenomena similar to the ones that generate auroras on Earth. The new con...

30 September 2011
20:11 GMT

Mercury Is Covered in Brimstone

In the September 30 issue of the top scientific journal Science, researchers published a series of 7 scientific papers on oddities and interesting features on the surface of the planet Mercury. The new data lead to a better understanding of the innermost planet in the solar system. One of the papers, for example, ...

30 September 2011
03:28 GMT

Download Facebook Messenger for iPhone

Facebok is launching its new, standalone instant-messaging application for subscribers to the popular social networking service that own an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.As simple as it sounds, “Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message...

10 August 2011
05:56 GMT

Windows Live Integration Comes to Android, iOS, Windows Phone

One of the new features that mobile application developers can take advantage from when designing their software is the ability for users to access Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive from their handsets as long as these run under Android, iOS, or Windows Phone.Redmond-based Microsoft has just announced that a new rele...

23 July 2011
02:17 GMT

MESSENGER Surveys Mercurial Craters

The NASA MESSENGER spacecraft is providing new datasets on the surface of Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system. Unlike Mars or Venus, this object is relatively little understood.The main reason for that is the huge amount of technical difficulties associated with exploring this remote world. Temperatures...

15 July 2011
10:03 GMT

MESSENGER Brings Mercury into the Spotlight

Datasets relayed back to Earth by the NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft are painting an increasingly clearer image of the closest planet to the Sun. Astronomers now know more about the planet than ever before. MESSENGER is the first-ever spacecraft to be injecte...

17 June 2011
04:52 GMT

MESENGER Ready to Unlock Mercury's Mysteries

On April 4, the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet in the solar system will begin its science mission. Experts hope that the suite of instruments aboard the probe will help them get more insight into some of the things that have puzzled astronomers for years. Chiefly among those is whether the pl...

31 March 2011
02:37 GMT

MESSENGER Sends Back First View of Mercury

Less than two weeks after the NASA MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, it managed to send back the first-ever orbital view of the innermost planet in the solar system.The image depicts a dark landscape, that bears the marks of repeated meteorite and asteroid impacts which scarred its surface...

30 March 2011
04:33 GMT

A View of GSFC Instruments on MESSENGER

In early April, the MESSENGER orbiter around Mercury will begin its science operations. Here is a view of the instruments the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed for this first-of-a-kind mission.The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe i...

19 March 2011
06:58 GMT

MESSENGER, Alan Shepard Get US Postage Stamps

Only two days after the first spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury, the US Postal Service (USPS) has produced a batch of 30 million postage stamps marking the momentous event. They will be released in pairs, with another unique stamp celebrating Alan Shepard, the first US astronaut in space. The USPS began pri...

19 March 2011
05:14 GMT

MESSENGER Achieves Orbital Insertion Around Mercury

NASA scientists were able to insert the first spacecraft ever into orbit around Mercury, after the probe spent more than 6 years traveling through the inner solar system. MESSENGER achieved the critical mission milestone on Thursday, March 17.During the maneuver, the vehicle had to slow its speed down by about 1,900 ...

18 March 2011
05:31 GMT

MESSENGER Will Reach Mercurial Orbit Tomorrow

Excitement is currently building up at NASA and in the international scientific community over the fact that the first long-term observations spacecraft is about to achieve orbital insertion around Mercury. The innermost planet in our solar system is very little understood at this point, and experts hope that the sp...

16 March 2011
04:30 GMT

MESSENGER Spacecraft To Enter Mercurial Orbit Next Week

Six days from now, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to become only the second American space probe ever to enter orbit around Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. The event will mark the beginning of a new series of studies, that will answer some very interesting questions about this celestial body.The vehicle launc...

11 March 2011
08:01 GMT

Download IM+ 4.7 for iOS - Free Video, Voice and IM Sending, Speech Recognition

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

Messenger Connect Released to Web

The final version of Messenger Connect has graduated from Beta and is now available for embedding into third-party websites and applications. Messenger Connect comes to complement Windows Live Messenger 2011 by taking Microsoft’s instant messaging client to a new level. Essentially, Messenger Connect has the ...

15 October 2010
11:18 GMT

IM Worm Uses URL Encoding to Spam Misleading YouTube Links

Security researchers warn that a new instant messaging worm uses URL encoding to create misleading links that direct users to fake YouTube pages. The spam messages are received from friends, who's computers have already been infected, and contain links of the form: http://youtube.com%2Ech[censored]config...

13 October 2010
12:40 GMT

Microsoft Releases Windows Live Essentials 2011 Today

Microsoft should launch the final version of “Wave 4″ of its Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite of Windows add-ons, later today.There are already several websites that announced the download will be available around 1pm ET, and things might actually turn out this way.The Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite...

30 September 2010
11:04 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Confirmed with Messenger and MSN Apps

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is nearing the launch of a new mobile operating system, namely Windows Phone 7, which should mark the revival of the company on the smartphone market, and some new info on the platform emerged. Among these details, we can count the fact that the upcoming mobile operating system...

30 September 2010
08:51 GMT

Windows Live Spaces Accounts Move to WordPress.com

The news came yesterday from Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Windows Live Product Management, at TechCrunch Disrupt, alongside Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic: Windows Live has teamed up with WordPress.com.The 30 million people that use Windows Live Spaces will have to migrate their blogs to the WordPress.com blogging ...

28 September 2010
03:33 GMT

Windows Live is Linked to LinkedIn

The user is at the center of the Windows Live team’s concern and their goal is to keep building exciting new experiences as well as teaming up with the right partners, for the customers’ satisfaction. Today, the Windows Live team announces its newest partner – LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over 75 million...

23 September 2010
15:55 GMT

Windows Live Announces Hot New Updates for Hotmail

Today, the Windows Live team made an announcement through the Inside Windows Live blog: they have launched an update to Hotmail, which includes Facebook Chat integration, nested folders, additional Active View partners and much more.A few months prior to this, the Windows Live team launched a Windows Live Hotmail wit...

23 September 2010
15:19 GMT

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta in the Coming Weeks

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will release a testing preview of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 to the public. “Get ready – it’s all coming your way soon!” is the message from the software giant. “We’re excited about the new Essentials and how we’re bringing together the powe...

5 June 2010
06:53 GMT

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Preview

At the end of May 2010, it became clear that Microsoft was on the verge of unveiling the last part of the Windows Live Wave 4 evolution, which it was still keeping under wraps. After delivering official details on Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 and Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4, it is now the turn of Windows Live Essent...

3 June 2010
10:22 GMT

Windows Live Wave 4 Preview Website Goes Live, Gets Taken Down

There’s no official confirmation from Microsoft at this point in time, but speculation indicates that the first public Beta for Windows Live Wave 4 is just around the corner. According to third-party sources, the Redmond company could start serving downloads of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta clients as ea...

28 April 2010
10:15 GMT

Download Microsoft Messenger 8.0 for Mac OS X (Beta)

After two years of throwing development resources at Messenger for Mac, Microsoft has been able to roll out an issue-filled 8.0 version. Granted, it is listed as beta software, but we can’t but wonder what’s the point of launching the program to the public if it’s still this buggy. “The Messe...

25 March 2010
04:40 GMT

First Complete Map of Mercury Ready

Astronomers can now boast the creation of the first complete map of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun inside our solar system. A large collection of images, gathered by space probes, telescopes and other observatories, went into the creation of the new map, which is the first one to contain all notable features ...

16 December 2009
07:04 GMT

Download Adium 1.4 Beta 14 for Mac OS X

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

Seasons Change on Mercury, MESSENGER Discovers

The American space agency's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe is currently orbiting around in the inner solar system, on a course that will set it into Mercury's orbit in early 2011. The probe has just recently completed its third and final flyby of the inn...

4 November 2009
03:05 GMT

MESSENGER Catches Unique Solar Flare

The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe has just recently performed its third flyby of Mercury, and it is currently heading on a course that will allow it to be captured in the planet's orbit in early 2011. As it passed close to the planet after one of its third ap...

27 October 2009
19:31 GMT

MESSENGER Unlocks Mercury's Secret

Recently, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft performed its third and final flyby of the innermost planet in our solar system. The flight was meant to cover the knowledge gaps left behind by the other two flybys, and to finish mapping the remainder of the pl...

22 October 2009
04:32 GMT

Bright Spot on Mercury Gets Close-Up

The third and final flyby that NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft performed around Mercury has revealed a new take on the innermost planet's mysterious bright spot, a feature that astronomers cannot explain yet. It was first discovered during the probe's second flyby, and experts have been hypothesizing on it...

2 October 2009
02:16 GMT

MESSENGER Explores Mercury, Experiences Glitch

Yesterday, NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft (MESSENGER) did its third and final flyby of Mercury, before its 2011 orbital insertion date. During the approach, areas of the planet that had never before been imaged were analyzed, but the success of the mission was dimi...

1 October 2009
03:23 GMT

MESSENGER Begins Third Mercury Flyby Today

NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe is scheduled to begin its third and final flyby of the closest planet to the Sun today, before pulling a complex, gravity-assist maneuver that will allow for it to be captured in the planet's orbit starting with March 2011...

29 September 2009
05:27 GMT

MESSENGER Prepares for Third and Final Mercury Flyby

In less than a week's time, NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will perform its third and final flyby of the planet, as well as its last gravity assist maneuver. This will set it on a course that will enable it to be captured in the planet's orbi...

24 September 2009
20:41 GMT


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