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iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages To Random People
11:57PM Jesus Diaz | According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting it, according to his testing: More »
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Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons, Compasses
6:00AM John Herrman | Step up your messaging, have fun with physics, watch some weird TV, find your car, call your friends, later incriminate said friends—it’s all in a day’s month’s work for Windows Mobile. More »
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IPhone AIM App With Push Notifications Is Live
10:58AM Jason Chen | There are two versions of the AIM app in the App Store right now. The free one, with ads, and the $US2.99 one, with no ads. They both have push notifications. More »
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iPhone AIM App Gets Background Notifications, Free SMS Messages and… Ads
8:20AM Matt Buchanan | The AIM iPhone app has never been great, but it just got some pretty solid features—it pings when you have new IMs, even after you quit the app, and lets you send free SMS messages. More »
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RIM Bringing AOL Mail, AIM and ICQ to All BlackBerry Smartphones
9:30AM Sean Fallon | I know all of you BlackBerry fans have been waiting forever for the true AOL Mail experience on your mobile phone right? Right? Yeahhhhhh! Seriously though, if you would prefer true AIM and ICQ as opposed to third party versions, now is your chance to get a deeply integrated, feature rich AOL experience on the go. Hit up the BlackBerry website to grab the new IM clients. [BlackBerry via CrunchGear] More »
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AIM Finally Released for Windows Mobile
4:20AM Mark Wilson | It’s been in beta for the last few months, but for Windows Mobile users who’d rather not risk their phone to be a lab rat in a suit, AIM for Windows Mobile is now in final release form. If you are on your mobile now, just go to this link and hit “products” to make the download. If you are on a Windows Mobile device and you don’t want AIM, then we are truly, truly sorry for wasting your time. Feel free to drop by Brian Lam’s place for a personal apology via back rub any time. No, it won’t be strange at all. [AOL via MobileBurn] More »
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Save Money By Sending Free SMS on iPhone
2:20AM Jason Chen | Here’s how you can use the reverse concept of using AIM on your computer to directly message someone’s phone via SMS to save money on text messaging fees for your iPhone—or any phone that has a proper data implementation of AIM. Just load up the AIM app on your phone, then send a text message to the number of the person you want to text. Example: +12125551234. Your buddy can reply to that message and you’ll get the response on your chat window, but it’s not as useful as it can be until the iPhone gets background messaging in September. Still, spamming Jesus with free text messages is always fun. [Max OS X Hints] More »
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Hands-On Google Talk for iPhone (Verdict: Stick with Installer.app)
4:30AM Benny Goldman | Google’s brand new Gtalk webapp for the iPhone is as crappy as I expected it would be. It has a nice design, and sending messages was easy, but at the end of the day it’s still running in Safari—which means if you get a call you are signed out of chat. And unlike other web-based IM apps, Gtalk doesn’t work in the background, so interruptions as simple as going to the home screen sign you out too. Also, there are no preference settings, so you are stuck looking at your whole contact list, online and off. Gtalk’s AIM support is also curiously absent from this release. In short, this program sucks. If you’re looking for a solid IM solution before the App store opens, I strongly recommend Agile Mobile’s AM client recently released on Installer, which I’ve been playing around with. More »
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AOL Blesses Windows Mobile With New AIM Client
1:40AM Matt Buchanan | After years of neglect, AOL has apparently remembered that Windows Mobile exists and just released a new official AIM client. Though still in beta, it’s supposedly compatible with all WinMo 5 and 6 devices. It looks pretty swank, at least as far as WinMo apps go, and more than satisfying for a mobile AIM client. Hopefully this means they’re cooking up one for the iPhone too. [AOL via XDA Developers via BGR] More »
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