Now Aimster is looking to give users of AOL's instant messaging software the chance to swap files.

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Less likely would be an interface between Entourage and iChat, Apple's instant messaging software that uses America Online 's network.

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Thanks to cheap Web cams and video-friendly instant messaging software, such as Apple 's iChat, keeping in touch via video is easier than ever.

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Thanks to cheap Web cams and video-friendly instant messaging software, such as Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iChat, keeping in touch via video is easier than ever.

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U.K. operator 3 has sold hundreds of thousands of so-called Skype phones, which have built-in support for Skype's voice and instant-messaging software.

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Ultimately, FaceTime enhances rather than displaces the dominant instant-messaging software.

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Using so-called reality instant messaging, a software "robot" monitors what you and your friends are doing--watching the same TV shows on different sets, say, or downloading the same song from Eminem--and links all of you via cell phone.

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Although it is not (yet) legal to place buy and sell orders over instant messaging, Communicator's software lets financial professionals discuss sensitive information between two or more banking institutions or even one-to-one with individual clients.

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The Cryptocat Project has always stated that, with its encrypted instant messaging, it does not protect you against hardware or software keyloggers and that it does not anonymize you by default.

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Apple says the new software has 150 new features, among them an instant-messaging client called iChat that's compatible with America Online 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.

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One of the first to benefit is expected to be Lotus Sametime, an instant-messaging add-on for firms that already license Lotus Notes and its related networking software.

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Software developers in the meantime are hoping Apple will start allowing applications, like instant messaging, that are always running in the background even when the phone is in sleep mode or being used for something else.

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