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• Yahoo! Mail Improves IM Integration, Adds Text Messaging

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:56 am

  Tags: Email, Instant Messaging Video Chat, 4509, 1702

  mail integration with their instant messaging platform. The company has officially rolled out the long-promised ability to convert e-mail into IMs, utilizing either the Yahoo! or Microsoft instant messaging client. Yahoo! is also touting a new text messaging feature, built on their IM client. Users can send SMS messages to mobile numbers in the

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• PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Audio Video, Blogs Rss, Business Software, Cool Web Sites, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Maps Gps, Music, News Events, Social Networking, Web Video

  We've posted the second phase of our annual Top 100 Websites list, over at PC Mag.com. I've got to say, as important as I think the Classics list is, it has a tendency to be a touch stodgy. Granted, we tried to keep the list a bit more fresh this year, including some sites that, while well-established, might as of yet be unfamiliar to some of

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• The Smiley Emoticon Turns 25

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:49 am

  Tags: Email, Instant Messaging Video Chat, News Events, 4944, 648, 2778, 482

  not billions, of e-mails and instant messages each year. With that in mind, I present a look at the origins of other popular and oft-used emoticons. :-) ;-> "Wink" Originator: Created shortly after the smiley by, according to legend, Monty Python troupe member Eric Idle ("A winks as good as a nod"), The Wink has risen to almost

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• Instant Updating with IMified

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Blogs Rss, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Utilities

  came across a neat Internet messaging bot called IMified, which lets you interact with a bunch of different Web applications--Google Calendar, Backpack, Remember the Milk, Blogger, Movable Type, and more--via, you guessed it--IM. Send an AIM, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, or Gtalk/Jabber (and later Yahoo! Messenger) instant message with any text

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• Microsoft OCS 2007 Not An SMB Play

  Published: October 16, 2007, 5:17 pm

  Tags: Business Software, Email, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Microsoft Windows, Voip, 192, 119

  vision for fully unified messaging (see Mark Hachman's news story). I saw an original beta of this deal last November followed by an updated beta this past spring. Seen it, played with it, danced the testing dance with it. From that experience, I've got to say this is an enterprise play, not an SMB platform. At all. Don't get me wrong. It

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• Meebo Introduces Firefox Entension

  Published: October 19, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Browsers, Instant Messaging Video Chat, 914, 3041, 970

  Funny thing about working for a software blog: We often find ourselves getting excited about various apps, but very rarely do they find a place in our day-to-day computing. The process generally goes something like this:: 1. We get pitched and/or hear some buzz about a new app. 2. We try it out. 3. We pan it, or fall in love and write all kind

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• Skype Video Calls Get High-Quality

  Published: October 30, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Instant Messaging Video Chat, Voip

  moments of achieving this video quality, with everyone running the right hardware and software and everyone's broadband connection behaving well. Also, I've heard from other Web video vendors that laptops with built-in webcams are a big impetus to the growing popularity of videocalling. But Logitech's Gina Clark, Vice President and General

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• Meebo Introduces Developer Platform

  Published: October 30, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Instant Messaging Video Chat, 474, 970

  new platform to design voice chat, group voice calling, video and audio calling, and live broadcast apps for Meebo. Meebo also said that it will be announcing (yeah, it's a bit anticlimactic) some more third-party apps in the near future, ranging from multiplayer games to office and productivity apps. I'm apprehensive about the ever-increasing

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• CoMo's Out and About for Windows Mobile 6 Users

  Published: November 6, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: Instant Messaging Video Chat, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Software, Voip

  you can engage enterprise chat behind the firewall, just like with desktop Office Communicator 2007. That means you can access our Exchange/OCS contact lists and not only get their contact info, but their availability as well. Mr. Lyon (above screen), for example, is busy, so starting a chat isn't the smart move. Better to one-click on either

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• Windows Live Comes out of Beta

  Published: November 7, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Blogs Rss, Business Software, Email, Free Downloads, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Microsoft Windows, Search, Security Spyware, Social Networking, 192, 3722

  After months upon months of incremental updates, Windows Live is finally *ahem* live. Microsoft's online suite is now available as a non-beta package download, which includes Mail, Photo, Gallery, Writer, OneCare Family Safety, and an updated version of Messenger 8.5. To download the package you need at least Windows XP SP3 and a Windows Live

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• Google Gains Group Chat

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Instant Messaging Video Chat, 1663, 423

  now can enable Google Group Chat. This little handy app creates a chat room of a sort, that you can invite buddies to hang out and socialize in. There's also a few Google-ish smilies, but they're nothing to write home about. The new Google Group chat is also in the Group Chat widget, but I'm not entirely sure if the two interoperate. In any

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• Google Integrates AIM into Gmail Chat

  Published: December 4, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Email, Instant Messaging Video Chat, 474, 472, 1663, 423, 482

  Gmail 2.0) introduced group chat and free IMAP support. The latest feature rollout steps up app integration by letting users chat with their AOL Instant Messenger buddies in Gmail. The Chat menu, located on the left hand side of the Gmail inbox, now features a Sign Into AIM option in its drop-down menu. After entering AIM sign-in info, users'

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• JetBlue Introducing In-Flight E-mail and Yahoo! IM

  Published: December 7, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: Email, Instant Messaging Video Chat, 1704

  the whole letting people chat away on their cell phones during a flight proposal, but for those out there who can barely stand to be disconnected from the outside world for a few hours (let's face it, we include ourselves in that category), JetBlue's latest offering is a terrific option. The company has announced plans to begin implementing

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• MySpace Adds Skype to IM Client

  Published: December 13, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Instant Messaging Video Chat, Social Networking, 372

  features. Buddy lists are instantly populated with your MySpace friends, who you can IM or send messages and bulletins to. For those especially obsessive-compulsive Myspace users out there, the app also sends instant alerts every time friend requests, messages, and comments are received. I don't know about you, but I can't wait another

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• AppSpout: Recent Reviews from the PCMag.com Software Team

  Published: December 19, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Cool Web Sites, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Photo Imaging, Security Spyware, Web Video

  ooVoo: ooVoo gives you videoconferencing with up to six participants--the most of any similar service we've reviewed--in a slick, well-thought-out interface. To this, it adds file transfers, group text chat, and community search. Though video quality is acceptable, it still lags behind SightSpeed, and audio tends to stutter. Family Tree

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