The topic of inappropriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman Mark Foley resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a sexual nature to underage former House pages from his Congressional office PC.
Players can interact with others in many ways, such as through chatting, trading and playing minigames.
Users can be invited to join a session by email or IM.
AOL Instant Messenger | instant messaging | Text messaging | Instant film | Instant-runoff voting | Instant replay | Multimedia Messaging Service | Instant messaging | Windows Messaging | text messaging | Real Time Messaging Protocol | Powerball Instant Millionaire | Instant Star | instant replay | Instant Live | Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur | Instant Karma! | Instant Crush | Instant camera | Illinois Instant Riches | Trillian (instant messaging client) | The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet | Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death | Smith & Jones instant noodles | Messaging spam | Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture | Instant Replay | Instant on | instant messaging (IM) | "Instant Karma" |
The domain is becoming popular with companies who produce instant messaging (IM) software with names registered by Adium, ejabberd, Coccinella, Meebo, Pandion, Pidgin, Peer, Prosody, Trillian, and Yahoo! among others.
It is also possible to interact with proprietary instant messaging networks such as ICQ, Yahoo!, Microsoft Messenger service or AIM through the use of "transports" (requires server-side support).
In 2001, there was a scandal when ICQ instant messaging logs between the CEO Sam Jain and other employees were leaked onto the internet through Fuckedcompany.com.
Kung-Fu Chess gained additional popularity when it was added in a special and systemically-simplified version to the ICQ instant messaging program in 2005, along with "Sumo Volleyball", another popular game by Shizmoo.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC), instant messaging (IM) programs, peer-to-peer file sharing clients with chat functions, and multiplayer games (especially MMORPGs) commonly have the ability to automatically log (i.e. save) textual communication, both public (IRC channel/IM conference/MMO public/party chat messages) and private chat messages between users.
She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.
Their products the Pen-Link 8 and LINCOLN 2 provide complete systems for electronic surveillance of nearly any form of electronic communications, including wire line, wireless, satellite, VoIP, Voice over Packet and 3G communication including Push-to-Talk, instant messaging, chat, e-mails, and web traffic.
Scott Werndorfer (born August 1, 1980) is the co-founder and head developer of Cerulean Studios, a company responsible for creating Trillian, a popular instant messaging client.
Socialcasting has developed out of several technology trends including instant messaging, videoconferencing, social networking, video sharing and blogging.
As TDD's are increasingly considered legacy devices, with the emergence of modern technologies such as email, texting and instant messaging, text from TDD are increasingly being sent over Text over IP gateways, or other real-time text protocols.
Certain Macintosh clients of instant messaging services such as AOL Instant Messenger have had the option of reading incoming messages using the system's voice fonts.
Automatic Packet Reporting System, amateur radio instant messaging and telemetry protocol
Even though the Arabic language is well integrated with Windows XP and Mac OS X, people still use it in Arabic forums and instant Messaging programs such as Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger because they don't always have Arabic keyboards.
What used to be only referred to as email and IM has evolved into a complex multi-media email, instant messaging, and related fixed and mobile messaging infrastructure.
The original name of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the open technology for instant messaging and presence.
Jabber.org, the public, free instant messaging and presence service based on XMPP.
For Instant Messaging, plus audio & video conferencing, Office 365 provides Microsoft Lync.
The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of industry forums each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the Wireless Village (focused on instant messaging and presence), The SyncML Initiative (focused on data synchronization), the Location Interoperability Forum, the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum.
Roster is also the name of the contact list for the Instant Messaging Protocol XMPP.
The Instant Messaging providers that the phone has are AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger.
According to Canonical, it would provide an uncompromised Web 2.0 experience: Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, simple software updates will be available periodically.
He said he also recovered 14–15 pages of encrypted chats, in unallocated space on Manning's MacBook's hard drive, between Manning and someone believed to be Julian Assange, using the Adium instant messaging client.
Open Mobile Alliance - a standards developing organisation managing the (mobile) Instant Messaging and Presence Service IMPS specification
Many wireless phones now include mobile instant messaging capabilities designed to hook into messaging services using IMPS on a carrier's network, formerly known as the Wireless Village protocol.
In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.