AOL, also a 5% owner, will infuse Net2Phone into the next versions of its Netscape browser and ICQ messaging.
The sale of business divisions like Bebo and ICQ in 2010 also contributed to the decline in unique visitors.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a protocol for real-time Internet chatting think ICQ, AOL Chat Rooms, Google Chat.
Acquired by AOL two years ago, ICQ now has 70 million users, making it the largest instant-messaging service in the world.
VoiceStream will offer messaging services under the AIM brand, while in Hong Kong it is ICQ which will be to the fore.
Israeli venture capitalist Yossi Vardi, who founded the famed ICQ instant message service later bought by America Online, decided to poke fun at it.
Odigo made its software interoperable with AOL's AIM and ICQ messaging services last year only to have AOL block Odigo users after a couple of weeks.
Through its own standard protocol, Mxit subscribers can also connect to other social networks and instant messaging applications such as Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ.
From IRC to ICQ to AIM to Trillian to Yahoo!
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While an estimated 80% of IM users are on either AIM or ICQ, Ferris claims the heavy adoption of IM services will tear away at the company's market share.
The new ICQ owner is Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a high-flying Russian Internet firm with investments in social networks (Facebook and Zynga, which makes games for SNS portals) and webmail.
We remember early days of networks IRC, AOL ICQ.
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Looking to shed weight and beef up a sleek new image as a Web-based media company, AOL is attempting to sell off its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging system ICQ.
In mid-1998 when Virginia-headquartered AOL bought Israel-based ICQ, it was the first outside-United States acquisition by AOL. In late 1998 Netscape would come into the AOL fold with several overseas offices.
MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
When AOL acquired our start-up in late 1999, I would share former Netscape (now AOL) HR and IT support based in Paris with ICQ and Netscape offices in Europe, Middle East and Asia.
After days of silence -- an eternity in the age of ICQ chats -- I finally got on the phone only to be informed that to get quotes from the boss, it would take two months to make the arrangements.
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Although Primrose says the link between Instant Messenger and ICQ was created as a "byproduct" of research into messaging and did not make the two programs interoperable, it moves the company closer to creating a worldwide system with 130 million users.
When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.
Although many observers predict that AOL would try to bring the ICQ users onto the IM platform, a company spokeswoman acknowledged that the two sets of users are very different and said the company does not plan to force one group to migrate from one system to the other.
Y. art collective, a remote-controlled gray blimp that hovered ominously over the ferry on the way to New Jersey and a cheeky presentation from ICQ founder Yossi Vardi on why excessive heat from laptops seriously impairs male gonads and is the root of population decline in certain nations of the developed world.
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