Fring VoIP client comes to apple iPhone
Fring has finally released their VoIP client on the Apple iPhone.
It is available as a free download from the Apple App Store.
The application enables the iPhone user to connect to several networks including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, and ICQ.
In addition, the application also allows the [...]
GNOME 2.24 Released
The developers behind the popular GNOME open source project have now released GNOME 2.24.
New features in GNOME 2.24 Release:
Empathy Instant Messenger – It now comes with a new instant messenger application which is based on the Telepathy communications framework. This messenger supports XMPP/SIP audio and video conferencing. Users can use it to connect [...]
Android 1.0 to get crippled Bluetooth support
The developers behind the Google Android project had some bad news.
The first major edition of the Android mobile platform would not include Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs
The first generation Android based mobile devices would be able to use Bluetooth headsets but applications would not be able to [...]
Mozilla Snowl introduced
Mozilla Labs has announced a new project named Snowl.
Snowl is basically a prototype Firefox extension which integrates messaging functionality into the web browser.
It currently supports RSS feeds in addition to Twitter feeds.
The app provides two interfaces to check out these feeds. One of them is like a traditional three-pane “list” view. The [...]
Google Talk updated for Apple iPhone
Google has released a new edition of their Google Talk application for the Apple iPhone.
This new edition runs in the Safari web browser on the iPhone (and iPod Touch of course).
One disadvantage of this web based app is that it would shut down whenever the user runs another application on [...]
Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk could soon talk with each other
Google and Yahoo recently announced their newly signed deal which would see Yahoo running Google powered ads on some of their search result pages in USA and Canada.
However, their deal also involved their instant messaging services!
The press release stated: “Yahoo and Google agreed to enable [...]
Google Talk Labs Edition Released
Search engine giant Google has launched a new test edition of their Google Talk instant messaging application.
This version has been named Google Talk Labs Edition.
It has all the features of regular Google Talk in addition to some social networking tools.
Users would get their updates from Gmail, Google Calendar and Orkut [...]
Digsby: An instant messenger for social networking fans
If you are an online addict with continues need to stay connected to instant messengers, social networks and email… Digsby is a perfect application for you.
This application is somewhat like Pidgin but has added support for social networks.
It supports instant messaging networks including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google [...]
Google add language bots to Google Talk service
Google has revealed that they have now made available a variety of chat bots to help people converse in other languages online.
These bots can be added as friends in Google Talk application and users can use them as interpreters in group chats.
As of now, they have made available [...]
Google Talk and Google Local comes to Blackberry
The maker of the very popular Blackberry PDAs Research in Motion has announced that they are now supporting Google Talk and Google Local on their products. In addition, owners of Blackberry devices would also be able to check out Google Maps on their PDAs. Google Talk is an [...]
