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Apple Files IM Patent

by Mark Rowland on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM

A recent patent application filed by Apple sheds light on a new application possibly coming soon for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Although at first glance the application looks almost exactly the same as the current Short Messaging Service (SMS) application for the iPhone, it is actually quite different.  Some… Continue Reading »

Revolutionary Third Party VoIP and IM iPhone Application Released

by Patrick Lutz on Apr 15, 2008 at 07:44 PM

An awesome VoIP client known as “fring” that was previously only available for PCs and other mobile phones has now been released for Apple’s iPhone (and iPod touch). Of course, only jailbroken iPhones will be able to run the unofficial third-party application, and its VoIP capabilities are only available over… Continue Reading »

Skype 2.7 for Mac released

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Feb 14, 2008 at 09:02 AM

I’ll admit that I rarely use Skype, compared to the other IM services out there - mainly because most of my communicating on the internet is done via text, and most of the people I know use MSN. Skype has some nice features, though. The fact that webcam video chats… Continue Reading »

Adium 1.2 released

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Jan 6, 2008 at 08:16 AM

No longer in beta, Adium 1.2 is available for public download now and has some nice improvements long time Adium users will notice and appreciate. It also has what the Adium team call “a ridiculous number of bug fixes”. Some of the new features include: An improved Adium menu item… Continue Reading »

Adium 1.2 almost here, beta available

by Alec Feld on Dec 29, 2007 at 08:37 AM

Adium 1.2 is just around the corner, with a download available from the beta page. The team have added many improvements into the next version of the popular messaging client, specifically Bonjour improvements. Bonjour, Group Chat, XMPP, AppleScript and many minor features have been fixed and improved, resulting in a… Continue Reading »

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