Nokia are integrating MSN Messenger into their latest 6708 Smartphones designed for the Chinese market where instant messenging is hugely popular. This announcement is the first time that MSN Messenger has been bundled with a Nokia smartphone.
The Nokia 6708 Smartphone has been on sale in China from December 2005 and is mainly targetted at [...]
Several visitors to CES have reported seeing an as yet unreleased version of Google Talk with buddy icons. Apparently there are very few differences between the current public version and the unreleased version of Google Talk. Tipsters hinted that a version of Google Talk with AIM integration will be released soon, following Google’s [...]
Google are being sued by Rates Technology over the VoIP elements in Google Talk. rates Technology uphold that they own 2 patents (awarded to them in 1995 & 2001) which are being infringed on by Google Talk.
Rates Technology are asking for a trial by jury where they will push for the reward of damages including [...]
The recent deal between Google and AOL includes an arrangement where Google Talk users will be able to talk directly with AIM users via a purely VoIP connection. Given the prominence of both companies, this could represent a massive surge of people using computer-to-computer VoIP to make and receive calls. The
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Jabber have announced a partnership with Google and other top companies to develop a set of extensions to the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for use with VoIP, video and other media. The technology is called Jingle and has already been implemented in Google Talk, released in August 2005.
Google is playing a [...]