Its Instant Messenger service is still inaccessible to similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo.
The programs can capture what has been typed in e-mails, chat rooms, and instant messenger services.
MSN's instant messenger service, meanwhile, is being made available in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
He is not a big phone person and only wanted to talk over AOL instant messenger.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
It's the same instant messenger you're likely already familiar with, but with an Apple-designed look and feel.
Tencent is well known in China for its instant messenger program QQ, with more than 600 million accounts.
Design your environment to be free from such distractions: sign out of instant messenger, turn off notifications, turn off email.
Around 2000, however, I found myself drawn more to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) than I did to AOL's chat rooms.
He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
Look at Skype, which has over 250 million users and is continually growing, and think back to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
It also offered a private messaging facility which it said was "much more private and secure than email or instant messenger services".
Give people tools to work at home and on the road: instant messenger, mobile phones, internet service, virtual meeting tools, webcams.
Variations on the Yahos malware have been infecting users for years, spreading initially via instant messenger platforms like AIM and Yahoo!
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's (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) instant messenger program, which has a minimum bid of 2, 000 euros.
That means millions of AOL users can't chat online with the folks on Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger, and vice versa.
In February of this year, America Online launched version 5.5 of its Instant Messenger application, which includes full audio and video options.
The desire to own smartphones keeps everyone continuously plugged-in and attached to our email, Facebook, instant messenger and an endless barrage of applications.
The IMfree Personal Instant Messenger, a small wireless handheld device for those young people that's designed to do one thing: AOL Instant Messenger.
The video chat is only to other Playbook tablets, so it is of limited value unless you consider it as an enhanced extension of Blackberry instant messenger.
Lamo says he began exploring options for contacting federal agents just days after Manning began communicating with Lamo over instant messenger and told Lamo about his whistle-blowing releases.
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The "Ripe for Skype and MP3 Hype" Award goes to the Sony Mylo , a convergence cornucopia including a Wi-Fi-enabled Skype handset, instant messenger, and portable media player.
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Leonsis says he is certain the phrase came out of AOL in the early 1990s, where he and company founder Steve Case were developing what would become AOL Instant Messenger.
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This application works with Instant Messenger and your mobile phone through SMS - though be aware that your phone provider may charge you for receiving automated texts from the web.
Another I-nternet attraction is the topsy-turvy farce of Microsoft lashing out at America Online for refusing to make its chat client, AOL Instant Messenger, interoperable with Microsoft's chat client, MSN Messenger.
The New York media company, which officially cut ties with Time Warner in December, is striking a deal with Facebook, allowing it to integrate social media features into AOL Instant Messenger.
Other IM programs don't require that--users of AOL Instant Messenger, for instance, might have a totally different IM name than their e-mail address, or might not even have an AOL account at all.
If AOL's services work together more fully, "it opens the door for us to argue for interoperability, " Brian Park, a senior instant messenger producer at Yahoo, said in Tuesday's edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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.
According to internet analysis firm Comscore, WLM still had more than double the number of Skype's instant messenger facility at the start of this year in the US, and was second only in popularity to Yahoo Messenger.
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