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Encyclopedia: Instant messaging

Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.

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How to say "Instant messaging" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	即時通訊
	(Japanese)	インスタントメッセンジャー
	(German)	Instant Messaging
	(Spanish)	Mensajería instantánea
	(French)	Messagerie instantanée
	(Italian)	Messaggistica istantanea

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Lotus Sametime

IBM Lotus Sametime is the commercial Instant Messaging service by the Lotus Software brand of IBM. It provides instant messaging and presence awareness capabilities as well as support for web conferencing...

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Gadu-Gadu

Gadu-Gadu is an instant messaging program that is popular in Poland. Gadu-Gadu uses its own proprietary protocol...

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Gabber

Gabber is a free software and open-source GNOME client for an instant messaging network called Jabber. Jabber is a free and open source distributed instant messaging network. It does not rely on a... instant messaging networks, including Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and MSN Messenger...

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Presence and Instant Messaging

Presence and Instant Messaging (PRIM) was an early proposal to the IETF of a standard for instant messaging. No work has been done on it since 2001 however. Today, SIP and SIMPLE, and XMPP are currently being discussed for us as an instant messaging protocol...

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ProjectSCIM

ProjectSCIM is a Secure Cryptographic Instant Messaging application. The first of many to allow real-time encrypted chatting. Many clones have popped up since SCIM first appeared on the Internet but SCIM remains a favourite...

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Trillian

Trillian may refer to: Trillian, a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trillian, an instant messaging application named after the fictional character Trillian is also a common mispelling for Trillion, a very large number...

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Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

real-time extensible messaging and presence events. It is the core protocol of the Jabber Instant... use as an IETF Instant Messaging and Presence technology. Internet Drafts XMPP-CORE describes... (SASL) and encrypted with Transport Layer Security (TLS). XMPP-IM describes instant messaging (IM...

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GG

Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939 Gadu-Gadu is an instant messaging program that is popular in Poland " Good game " in internet slang...

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Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer ( b. April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK-based instant messaging client Gaim and Asterisk, an open-sourced PBX in software. Mark is the founder and CEO of Digium, Inc. Digium is an open-sourced telecommunications supplier most notable for its...

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Milkbone

Milkbone is an instant messaging client. It's still very much in its infancy, but it supports: Communication with AOL's servers via the OSCAR protocol Support for plugins Conversation logging Support for Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X systems Milkbone's distribution is only 190K, but it still...

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