Tag: AIM

AOL, our parent company, has released a beta version of its once dominant AIM instant messaging program. While AIM has been toppled as the most popular IM service by both Yahoo! and Windows Live, it's aiming (get it?) to lure new users by integrating Facebook chat. Now, in addition to compiling updates from Facebook, Twitter, and other social services in your "Lifestream," AIM will allow you ...

It was bound to happen eventually (if for no other reason than MySpace did it first) -- Facebook is finally offering up an instant-messaging service. Ironically, Facebook's new IM service may have the effect of killing off a couple of chat applications already available on the social-networking site. Initial rumors claimed that the new Facebook IM service, which is to be embedded into people's ...

In the spirit of full disclosure, AOL cuts our paychecks. But don't think that we're excited about this just because of contractual obligation. AOL has announced its Open AIM 2.0 initiative. While it is possible to chat with AIM via programs such as Pidgin and Trillian or web sites like Meebo, until now those operations were forced to hack their way into the AIM system. This limits advanced ...

In case you haven't been paying very close attention to your Gmail, or for some bizarre reason don't use the Google Mail service, you may have missed that while staying almost exactly the same cosmetically, Gmail has undergone a complete overhaul during the last few months. Since late October Gmail has gained new features on an almost weekly basis. First they added IMAP, an E-Mail delivery ...

If you think your mom is hopelessly locked in the stone age when she talks about exchanging paper letters with Aunt Edna, you'd better be careful about how you offer to keep in touch with your nieces and nephews as they head off to college. If you offer your e-mail address, you may very well be considered obsolete. A new study shows that teens think e-mail is dead, with 80-percent relying on ...

While Web-based mail sites like Gmail and Hotmail make it easy to access your messages from anywhere -- even mobile devices -- instant messaging on the go isn't always so easy. Web-based solutions like Meebo have sprouted up to allow you to use several IM clients from almost any computer without having to download software. But point your mobile phone's browser to Meebo's site, and you'll find ...