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Pidgin: IM Superstar

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

Pidgin 2.6.0 Has Voice and Video Support

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

Download Adium 1.4 Beta 8

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

Ping Pals Hints XX (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

24 April 2009
15:11 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XIX (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

23 April 2009
16:01 GMT

Ping Pals Unlockables and Hints (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

22 April 2009
16:01 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XVIII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

16 March 2009
09:03 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XVII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection...

13 March 2009
06:59 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XVI (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection...

12 March 2009
09:06 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XV (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

11 March 2009
09:06 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XIV (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

10 March 2009
09:02 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XIII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

9 March 2009
09:00 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

6 March 2009
06:36 GMT

Ping Pals Hints XI (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

5 March 2009
08:31 GMT

Ping Pals Hints X (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

4 March 2009
06:47 GMT

Ping Pals Hints IX (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

3 March 2009
07:57 GMT

Ping Pals Hints VIII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

2 March 2009
07:57 GMT

Ping Pals Hints VII (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

27 February 2009
07:58 GMT

Ping Pals Hints VI (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

26 February 2009
08:05 GMT

Ping Pals Hints V (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

25 February 2009
08:35 GMT

Ping Pals Hints IV (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

24 February 2009
08:35 GMT

Ping Pals Hints III (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

23 February 2009
08:54 GMT

Ping Pals Hints II (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

20 February 2009
10:11 GMT

Ping Pals Hints (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

19 February 2009
10:41 GMT

Ping Pals Unlockables II (DS)

Ping Pals is an application made for the Nintendo DS by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ for the handheld console. It is a chat and accessory program, which focuses on players being able to freely interact and chat with each other by typing words in a chat room enabled by the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Th...

18 February 2009
13:31 GMT

PictoChat Unlockables (DS)

PictoChat is a communication utility made by Nintendo in order to facilitate a better understanding and interaction among the users of its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld devices. Being pre-loaded on any DS, DS Lite and DSi version of the portable console, it has made communication between individuals a very plea...

17 February 2009
12:01 GMT

Robots Are Still Far from Humans in Chatting

A recent experiment performed at Berkshire's University of Reading checked whether robots could resemble humans in thinking, based on text conversations. Chatbots' jokes, arguments and answers were not enough to beat a Turing test. Alan Turing was a bright British mathematician who addressed the issue ...

13 October 2008
05:52 GMT

Adium Updated to V.1.3.2

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
15:11 GMT

Google Talk Launched for iPhone

Staying true to Steve Jobs' fondness of web apps, the Google mobile team has released Google Talk for the iPhone. Using the app, even first-gen iPhone users can chat with their Google friends in real time, see their availability and status message, change their status on the go and more."We've just released...

3 July 2008
06:06 GMT

Unannounced Yahoo Messenger Features Already Available: New Skins and Online Activity Sharing

A few days ago, Yahoo rolled out a brand new version of Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta that came with several new features for Yahoo Messenger fans. Besides the bigger emoticons and the improved Vista support, Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta also brought a few announced functions that had not even been presented by the folks at the S...

3 June 2008
16:10 GMT

Skype 2.7.0.330 for Mac Brings More Improvements. Update Now.

The Skype Group has updated its program that allows users to call their Skype friends via the Internet, free of charge. Version 2.7.0.330 highlights include added support for NAT-PMP, uPnP, and Authenticated Proxy and increased minimum size of SkypeOut Caller Window. More than 35 bug fixes are also in order for the l...

16 May 2008
08:48 GMT

Teens Think "Instant Messaging" Doesn't Mean "Writing"

A study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that most teens don't consider the electronic texts they enter on computers to be the same as the formal writing they do for schools and universities. According to the findings, no less than 85 percent of the teenagers with ages between 12 and 17...

25 April 2008
16:31 GMT

Facebook Chat Underway

The fastest rising social network in the world, Facebook, has just confirmed its newest option to be added to the slew of services it offers. A web chat product dubbed unoriginally "Facebook Chat" will be released in the weeks to come, and will be added to the bottom of all the Facebook pages. Much like your average ...

20 March 2008
10:09 GMT

Policeman Posing as 13-year-old Girl to Catch Pedophiles

Jim Murray, a retired 69-year-old police chief has seen a case once that haunted him until he found the answer. It was about a 13-year-old girl that was abducted and then killed by somebody she had met online. It was enough to have his hair stand on end and decide that if there was something to be done about preventi...

25 January 2008
13:56 GMT

15 Year Old Girl Harassed by Xbox Live Stalker

It has come to this… While we're enjoying "the season to be jolly", other people seem more keen on tormenting innocent gamers, by harassing them. Enter Xbox Live… Microsoft's famous service allowed a 15 year old girl and a 20 year old man to meet virtually, play a bit of Halo and start chatting, but things...

31 December 2007
08:04 GMT

Survey: Fifty-Four Percent of Consumers Love Online Chatting

A recent survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche reveals that no less than fifty-four percent of the respondents access social networking websites, chat rooms or message boards, while 45 percent update their profile every once in a while. The online advertising seems to be a pretty successful business because 78 percen...

28 December 2007
15:36 GMT

IM Infection Spotted in the Wild

We've seen many of these before, but since it is a new infection, it may be a really threat for your computer. With a continuously growing up popularity, the instant messenger and chatting applications reach every single computer in the world, fact that makes the unpatched and unprotected ones fully vulnerable t...

28 December 2007
14:36 GMT

Guide to Voice Communication with Xbox 360

Unlike general in-game voice communication, a chat is a closed conversation between you and one other person. Your chat partner can be playing the same game you are, but can also be playing a different game-or watching a DVD movie, or listening to music. Both of you could, in fact, just be sitting around wondering wh...

28 December 2007
08:26 GMT

Cyber Love: Flirting Online with Robots

Nowadays, the web is full of social networking services and dating websites, all of them with a single goal: they attempt to connect people from all over the world. Now, let's suppose you're seeking for a relationship or even for love (oh, well, I heard people doing that). In case you find somebody pretty a...

10 December 2007
06:39 GMT

Virtual Soap-Opera: Love Triangle, Crimes And Years In Prison

48-year-old Thomas Montgomery will spend his next 20 years in prison, after he pleaded, in August, guilty of murdering his 22-year-old colleague, Brian Barrett, out of jealousy. At least, this is what the investigators told AP. But here's the entire and complicated story: Thomas Montgomery (the killer), who wa...

29 November 2007
02:58 GMT

Google: talkabout it in 20 Languages

Globalization is the way to go nowadays and everybody seems to be aware of that. At the top of the list striving to achieve that is trend setter and market sweeper Google, which just today added support for 20 new languages for its Google Talk.The new languages added are Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), D...

27 November 2007
05:20 GMT

Live Video Chatting Supported By YouTube's Parents

TokBox is one of the services which aim to become famous but instead of a brilliant idea, I'm not sure if it has all it takes to challenge the web rivals. Generally, TokBox is a live video chatting technology which enables the registered members to communicate on the web using their camera and microphone without...

16 October 2007
14:21 GMT

Google Chat Goes Live

Besides the already famous Google Groups help forums, feedback emails and the Help Center, the Mountain View company is now offering one more method to get support in a matter of seconds. The Google AdWords Support Chat is currently available only for the advertising platform but the super giant Google might extend i...

12 September 2007
05:49 GMT

Online Love Leads to Hacked Off Legs

Let me tell you one thing: the Internet is not a safe place even when you're 56 years old. It was proved by Des Gregor, a farmer from South Australia who thought the found his true love on the Internet. After an online meeting with a potential love, he decided to go to Mali in order to meet his predestined woman...

13 August 2007
06:06 GMT

Yahoo Messenger Alternative? No Thanks, I Choose YM!

A lot of users are looking for a Yahoo Messenger alternative in order to find a better software solution able to provide different functions than the ones offered by the main instant messenger created by Yahoo. Trillian is one of the most popular solutions able to replace Yahoo Messenger but the recent security advis...

17 July 2007
05:58 GMT

How to Find a Wife on Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Messenger is the most popular instant messaging client on the Internet and it seems like it becomes even more than a simple software solution. Why am I saying that? Because a lot of users are proposing marriage through the instant messenger and prefer to do that instead of saying it in person. Speaking about th...

16 July 2007
08:19 GMT

Google's Office Gets Instant Messenger

Google Apps, the suite that is often compared to Microsoft's Office, gets a new update that adds communication features to the pack of programs. Basically, the interoperability could be done with ease because the parent company implemented only the Google Talk Gadget that is compatible with the Personalized Home...

3 July 2007
02:42 GMT

Stay Secure While Chatting Online

Jabber is an "en vogue" chat (Instant Messaging) technology, perfect for small and medium businesses. One of the cool things about Jabber - except for the fact that it's free and open source - is that it can be used on multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD). Popular chat clients like Pidgin, Psi or Adium...

13 June 2007
10:49 GMT

How to Get Messenger into Your Yahoo Mail Account!

Some time ago, the Sunnyvale company announced a long-awaited feature that was meant to improve the functionality of the mail service: interoperability with Yahoo Messenger, the most popular instant messaging client on the Internet. Basically, the compatibility between the two products is almost the same as the one o...

11 June 2007
03:56 GMT

Night Vision WebCam: "Shhh, Don't Disturb Your Room Mate!"

You can always turn on the light or use a flashlight to check if the monster from the closet is hiding somewhere near your desk, but there's no fun there, eh? A web cam with 6 infraded LEDs can make your … night …instead. Probably not.Here's the main argument the maker of the webcam is trying to send to its...

4 May 2007
07:22 GMT


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