imo.im is a worthy challenger to Meebo
Meebo is probably the most well known web based instant messaging service today.
They have a couple of rivals including imo.im which continues to enhance their features to make it a worthy challenger.
imo.im enables connectivity with a variety of instant messaging services like AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, [...]

Pidgin 2.5.8 released to resolve more Yahoo and MSN issues
Pidgin users have been facing several issues with Yahoo and MSN protocols in the recent times.
The developers had released a new version that fixed some of those problems.
They have fixed some more issues in the latest release.
Pidgin 2.5.8 is now available as a free [...]

Digsby Build 60, r22564 released
The developers behind the Digsby instant messaging application have released a brand new build to all users.
This is a major update.
The developers said: “This release includes all the features, bug fixes and enhancements in ALPHA Builds 53 – 60”.
Changelog for this build is pretty huge:
Performance: We’ve optimized performance from the [...]

Microsoft Money Plus discontinued
Microsoft has announced that they are discontinuing another product offering.
Microsoft Money Plus would not be sold after June 30. Customers who acquire it would have to get their copies activated by January 31 in 2011.
Microsoft spoke about their decision to discontinue this financial product:
‘With banks, brokerage firms and Web sites now providing [...]

Pidgin 2.5.6 released
The developers behind the popular open source instant messaging application Pidgin have released a new version.
Pidgin 2.5.6 is now available as a free download.
This is mostly a bug fix edition.
Changelog:
libpurple
Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
Fix various crashes [...]

Hotmail suffers some downtime scaring its users
We have already seen several downtime stories connected to Google’s Gmail webmail service.
Now, Hotmail users had something to worry about as the service suffered some glitches.
Microsoft has now confirmed that all the problems are resolved with their MSN, Windows Live and Hotmail services.
Users were told that their [...]

MSN Toolbar now comes with Live Search cashback button
The Live Search team at Microsoft has released an update to the MSN Toolbar which features a button for Live Search Cashback.
This button is designed to glow whenever a user is searching for a product that is covered under the cashback program.
The aim is to make it [...]

Hotmail updated to meet user demands
Microsoft has updated their Hotmail webmail service to meet some demands made by the users of the service.
The company said in a blog post about these changes: “We heard many users say that they had trouble navigating through Hotmail, especially if they had a smaller monitor, Hotmail will scroll like [...]

Power.com : Convergence of Social Networks?
Power.com is one of the newer social web services in town.
It does not try to emulate any other network but enables the user to stay connected to most of the other social networks at a single place.
Some of the features promised by the service:
Users would be able [...]

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 [...]