New Media + IT

Just upgraded my Windows Live Messenger 8 to the 8.5 beta. So far I haven't seen any new features but mostly design improvements.
I found the installer at FileHippo.com (it's also available from Microsoft's Live.com site) and I could log in without any problems, but that may be because I'm enrolled at the Windows Live [...]

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[ categorized as: Instant messaging, Microsoft, Windows ]

Google has now turned Google Talk into an online application that you can launch in your browser – even though you can still download the software version.
And you can even add the new online Google Talk to your webpage as a Gadget.

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[ categorized as: Google, Instant messaging, Online applications ]

Fancy an instant messaging-client that requires 0 megabyte on your hard disk and doesn't need any installation?
Sys-Con Australia reports that Process-One has created an instant messaging client based on AJAX and Mozilla's XUL. The client's name is OneTeam.
OneTeam handles presence, one-to-one chat, file tranfer, user business card and groupchat in realtime. Based on the XMPP [...]

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[ categorized as: Instant messaging, Internet, Web 2.0 ]

Via Scobleizer i found this article at Marketing Pilgrim entitled "Exclusive – Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?".
Apparently the update feature in a new upgrade of Yahoo Messenger downloads and installs Internet Explorer 7, tries to make Internet Explorer 7 the default browser AND makes Yahoo the default search engine in [...]

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[ categorized as: Instant messaging, Messenger ]