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A multiprotocol instant messaging application is software that allows one instant messenger (IM) client to connect to multiple IM networks, particularly AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger, along with some lesser known ones such as Novell GroupWise, Rendezvous, and Jabber networks. Some also support IRC, though this isn't really designed to be an instant messenger network (in particular, most IRC networks do not give a strong assurance that the person using a nick is always going to be the same person). A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...
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ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ...
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically...
GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. ...
Bonjour, formerly Rendezvous, is Apple Computers trade name for its implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol used in Apples Mac OS X operating system from version 10. ...
Official logo of the Jabber Software Foundation Jabber is a collection of open, real-time communication technologies built on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). ...
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. ...
The major instant messaging networks have in the past been rather hostile towards multiprotocol clients, breaking them through small protocol changes. At one stage, the Trillian developers team was making a release every few days, since AOL changed its servers frequently to break Trillian. As of June 2006, however, there has been no such breakage for over 2 years.
Examples of multi-protocol IM clients include Gaim (multi-platform), Trillian (perhaps the most widely-used), Miranda IM and Instan-t (for Windows), Kopete (for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems running KDE), Simple Instant Messenger (multi-platform), PlanetaMessenger.org (for Java Platform), IM+ and Agile Messenger for mobile telephones and PDA's running Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or Symbian, and Adium and Proteus for the Apple Mac and the location-aware Meetro for Windows XP. Gaim is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ...
Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal...
Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalist, open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. ...
Instan-t is a multi-protocol instant messaging software program developed by Interactive Networks Inc. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
Kopete is a multi-protocol instant messenger, supporting Jabber, ICQ, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, .NET Messenger Service, SMS, and Yahoo! Messenger. ...
Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ...
Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
KDE (K Desktop Environment) (IPA: ) is a free software project which aims to be a powerful ecosystem for an easy-to-use desktop environment. ...
Simple Instant Messenger (SIM) is a free software multiprotocol instant messaging client available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. SIM-ICQ was discontinued for a time because its founder Vladimir Shutoff, a Russian programmer, left the project. ...
The Java platform is the name for a computing environment, or platform, from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. ...
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Agile Messenger is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for mobile devices which allows users to be connected to multiple instant messaging networks while away from the PC. Agile Messenger supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and XMPP. Versions are available for Windows Mobile/Windows CE, Symbian OS, Palm OS...
Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and Portable Media Centers. ...
The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ...
Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ...
Adium is a popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library. ...
Proteus is an instant messenger client for Mac OS X that can access the Jabber, AIM, .Mac, ICQ, MSN, Lotus Sametime, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Japan networks, as well as supporting chat over local Bonjour networks. ...
Meetro is a multi-network instant messenger with location-based services (LBS). ...
Jabber brought with it the idea of gateways (better known as transports). In this system, connections to the closed IM networks would be handled by a gateway on the users Jabber server, while Jabber users could talk to each other directly. This seems to function well for users running a private Jabber server, but large public Jabber servers sometimes become the subject of IP blocks from the large networks, or are not able to handle the high load. On the other hand, using a Jabber transport brings several advantages, both for the end user and the programmer of the client: less complexity on the client level, possibility to log in with multiple clients (e.g. mobile phone and computer) to the same account, lower chance for security and privacy risks for the end user thanks to the use of only one connection that can be secured to the Internet and thanks to the fact that people will not know your IP, possibility to archive messages on the Jabber server (as easy as normal Jabber messages) to comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, amongst others. Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, President George Bush meets with Senator Paul Sarbanes, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002. ...
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