Chat & Messengers News

News on chat systems and messengers, such as Instant Messenger and ICQ, also covers newer chat technologies such as IP telephony and video conferencing.

Online Scientific Social Networking Hits Research and Higher Education

During the past two years, one of the fastest growing business trends on the internet has been social networking, with over 20 million registered users on the top five on-line social networks. Now eggheads are getting their own exclusive club. British start-up company academici Ltd., is launching the first networking platform exclusive to higher education and scientific research at www.academici.com. ...[+]

Motorola & Skype Work Together To Provide Mobile IP Telephony

Motorola, a global leader in seamless mobility, and Skype Technologies S.A., the Global Internet Telephony Company™, announced their intention to work together on a co-marketing collaboration that will provide greater connectivity options and access for Skype’s more than 25 million registered worldwide users. ...[+]

MSN Messenger 7.0 Beta and MSN Web Messenger Released

Two new versions of MSN Messenger launch today. The public beta release of MSN Messenger 7.0 offers consumers new ways to express themselves online and personalise their instant messaging experience. ...[+]

IETF Publishes XMPP RFCs Initially Developed by Jabber

The Internet Engineering Task Force today officially published the specifications for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) as RFCs within the Internet Standards Process. ...[+]

MSN Messenger Reveals 7pm is the New Elevenses For Social Global Village

Its official, with increasing numbers of friends being scattered across the global village virtual contact is rapidly taking over from face to face contact. As a result 19:00 (7pm GMT) is replacing traditional "elevenses" as the optimum time for social chat in the UK, as friends struggle to juggle long distance contact across multiple time zones. ...[+]

Yahoo! and BT Join Forces to Build Yahoo! Messenger with BT Communicator, a Next Generation Communications Offering

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and British Telecommunications plc announced that the companies are creating a next-generation call management offering based on the Yahoo! Messenger platform. ...[+]

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