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Imo offers free voice calling for iOS users

by Mel Martin (Aug 14th, 2012)

The imo instant messenger app has been updated to add voice calls. The app can communicate with your friends on any almost IM network, including Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM and more. With this latest update the app adds high quality voice calls. To place a call, you tap a ...

iOS code hints iChat functionality coming to mobile

by Mike Schramm (Nov 17th, 2011)

Developer John Heaton found some code in the latest version of iOS that hints iChat functionality could finally be coming to the mobile operating system. The code mentions various chat services like Jabber and AIM, and while it doesn't specifically mention iChat, there's certainly some strings ...

iOS 5 features: iMessage brings free texting to iPad, iPod touch

by Chris Rawson (Oct 12th, 2011)

Until now, the iPhone has had an exclusive on built-in texting via Apple's Messages app. That's changed in iOS 5, and now the iPad and iPod touch have joined the party. iMessage allows for free texting across all iOS devices running iOS 5 so long as they have internet access. If you've ...

Daily Mac App: Adium

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 6th, 2011)

Instant messaging is an essential part of modern communications. On the Mac, we're blessed with the excellent iChat, but Apple's built-in IM solution doesn't connect to every protocol, so that's when we turn to Adium. Adium is a great long-standing piece of open-source Mac software. The ...

VoxOx releases iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2011)

I wrote about VoxOx earlier this year when I saw the Mac app at CES, and the company has now released an iPhone version that replicates the company's call back service -- they'll connect two different voice lines to each other over your phone. The app can even accept SMS messages, pull off a ...

Adium 1.4 ships with support for Twitter, better group chat features

by Michael Rose (Oct 31st, 2010)

The duck is amuck: the versatile & free multi-service Mac IM client Adium has reached a new milestone, version 1.4. The new version includes support for Twitter messaging, full IRC support, improved group chat services and bookmarks for persistent chats, an update to the underlying libpurple ...

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone previewed

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 28th, 2010)

Neowin.net has posted screen shots of the upcoming Windows Live Messenger for iPhone. According to Neowin's sources, Windows Live Messenger for iPhone will officially be previewed by Microsoft later today, but will not ship its public beta until June, with a limited private beta expected in May. ...

New Trillian alpha available for the Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 2nd, 2010)

A Mac version of Cerulean Studio's Trillian has been years in the making and as of this past Friday, the alpha build of the software is finally out in the wild for Mac users to try. A private alpha has been available since 2007. Since I dropkicked PCs out of my household five years ago, I've ...

Two App Store updates: Trillian ships, Google Earth 2.0 arrives

by TJ Luoma (Nov 18th, 2009)

There are two arrivals in the App Store of note. First, after a three month wait, the multiservice IM client Trillian is now available in the App Store [iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch. We previously discussed the fact that Trillian was sitting in approval limbo with no word from Apple as ...

Walk and talk feature added to Agile Messenger for iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 12th, 2009)

There have been some important upgrades to Agile Messenger [iTunes Link] since I last wrote about the multi-client chat app. Notably: a "walk and talk" feature that uses an iPhone camera to give you a view in front of your phone if you want to chat and walk at the same time. That's useful if you're ...

Screen sharing is caring: Skype 2.8 goes gold

by Sang Tang (Jul 20th, 2009)

The good folks at Skype have just gone gold with the 2.8 update (link) (previously in beta) of the popular VOIP client for Mac OS X. As TUAW previously noted in the beta release of 2.8, the update brings with it support for screen sharing and Skype Access, the company's pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi service. ...

First Look: Agile Messenger with push notifications

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 18th, 2009)

Agile Messenger was recently updated to support iPhone OS 3.0's push notifications. The obvious comparison will be to BeejiveIM, since they both do the same thing: provide a multi-client chat app offering push notifications on your iPhone. We'll have a hands-on with Beejive later, but this is how ...

AIM and BeejiveIM updated for push support

by Sang Tang (Jun 22nd, 2009)

AOL has updated both its free (download link) and paid versions (download link) of its AIM client for the iPhone. Besides push notification support, the paid version brings with it the ability to message in landscape mode -- although AOL says that the free version will gain this ability in a later ...

Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 30th, 2009)

We'll have a head-to-head comparison of the just-released Agile Messenger [App Store link] versus Beejive in a few days, but why not test drive Agile Messenger yourself first? Four lucky winners will get to do just that, courtesy Agile and TUAW. Just tell us which chat protocol you prefer (AIM, ...

Macworld 2009: Pinger Phone

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 2nd, 2009)

I had a quick chat with the folks from Pinger Phone while we were at Macworld 2009. I hadn't heard of it previously, and it turned out to be exactly what I needed to bring together my various forms of communication. It's an iPhone/iPod touch app that provides a contact list combining email, phone, ...