Recently, it made changes to the Services Agreement governing Hotmail, SkyDrive, Bing, Windows Live Messenger and other online services.
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Some players who spoke to CNN.com said they have traveled for a league draft, but said that often the players who couldn't make it would send picks by online messenger or call on their cell phones.
He announced the new Windows Live Essentials, a set of repackaged online applications, including Messenger, Mail and Photo Gallery.
Yahoo Messenger is one of the earliest online messaging tools, launched in 1998.
On Monday, a poll of more than 2, 000 young people by charity Beatbullying found that 57% had been harassed online using Windows Live Messenger.
Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move widely condemned as repressive when used by other countries.
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When police discovered the photos, they were taken down, but they continue to circulate online and by mobile, including BlackBerry messenger.
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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.
While at Microsoft, Irving was responsible for creating and leading a global development and operations organization of more than 4, 000 employees in the creation and operation of Microsoft's global online services, launching several new products, including MSN Messenger and growing Hotmail from 7 million to 290 million users.
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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.
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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