instant messenging

The Windows Live Messenger service is now available through Nokia’s “Messaging Chat” application, software that comes pre-installed on select Nokia phones. Within this application, you can chat with friends, maintain buddy lists, update your status message, and even have multiple conversations at…

Seven, a company known for the push-enabled email services and messaging applications, recently announced a new Mobile Instant Messaging service which will be offered to both mobile operators and device manufacturers for inclusion on their handsets. The service, which supports all major IM accounts…

For those of you who now use Facebook’s built-in IM as your primary choice for online chatting, you may be interested in this: Chit Chat, a desktop client for Facebook chat. Basically, it’s Facebook IM – and just Facebook IM – without the browser. No other IM networks are included. The nice thing…

Earlier this year, the Windows Live Messenger team released an app for Facebook which officially integrated Live Messenger with Facebook. The Windows Live Messenger Facebook app shows your online presence on your Facebook profile and lets you IM with your friends directly on the Facebook web site…

Twitter is the popular web service that started a revolution by allowing users to answer and share their responses to the simple question: "What are you doing?" Rapidly morphing into a micro-blogging service that hyper-connected users update and check obsessively, Twitter gained momemtum.…