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  • Google Restores AIM

    Google Restores AIM

    Google and AOL were able to restore the inoperability between their two instant messenger clients, over two weeks after a spam flood on AIM began to affected Gmail Chat and Google Talk.

    AOL initially thought that the repairs would be finished last Thursday, but things took a bit longer, and service was back up Tuesday. Interoperability between the IM clients is up again, and “running smoothly,” according to AOL. Meaning, users can again log into the Google network, and chat with users who are logged into the AIM network. When there was a problem, users would have to log into separate accounts to access both services.

    AOL has been planning layoffs of late, with the AIM department taking hits. AIM brings in about $50 million in annual revenue, but costs about half as much to operate. AOL seeks to cut these operating cost dramatically, to about $2 to $3 million a year.

    It has been reported that AOL will keep its support staff to maintain existing iterations of AIM, but the chat client software won’t be upgraded again.

  • Yahoo Messenger 11.5 Update Adds New Features

    On Tuesday, March 13th, I learned about a new update to Yahoo Messenger. As an avid user of this messaging system, I was excited to test it out and to see what changes they have unveiled, because it has been quite a while since the directory giant had released an update for this software.

    The update may seem deceiving, because the update’s release number is the same as the previous release (11.5); however, after a user downloads the new release of this quality messaging client, the user will see some new features that I have elaborated about below. These are two new features that I am glad to see integrated into YM:

    • Recent Contacts – Above the friends lists that you have created within Yahoo Messenger, a “Recent Contacts” list will appear that will display the buddies that you have recently messaged with. If you would like this feature disabled, you can turn it off within the “Show/Hide” section of the Contacts menu.

    • Tabbed Conversations: – Instead of having multiple windows for multiple conversations, all of your active conversations are now integrated within one messaging window. To toggle between conversations with other YM users, select their username from the list of tabs at the bottom of the messaging window.

    If you are an existing user of Yahoo Messenger, or you would like to try it out, download this new release here. This release is only available for Windows users.

    Please be sure to leave any feedback below pertaining to the new release of this quality instant messaging client.