March 14, 2017
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Recently, the open-source multi-instant messaging (IM) program Pidgin was updated to version 2.12.0. That’s the good news. It’s a very useful program if you work with people using multiple IM services. The bad news is that its developers couldn’t add … Continue reading
April 20, 2015
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Is this a feature or a bug? Twitter, the popular 140-character social network, has now made it easier than ever for anyone to send you a Direct Message. Twitter allows anyone to send you a direct message: This is an … Continue reading
August 12, 2014
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Enough already with all the whining about Facebook Messenger, Facebook’s new standalone mobile messaging app! It’s Facebook! They make their money from watching everything you do on the net! What did you expect their new messaging-only app to do? Facebook … Continue reading
June 14, 2013
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Worried sick about the NSA, or someone else, looking over your shoulder? Well, you can do things that will make it harder for someone to eavesdrop on you. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all these things … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
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When Google announced that it was consolidating its Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) instant messaging and video-conferencing services into Google Hangouts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) noticed that Google had also sharply diminished “support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP … Continue reading
July 30, 2012
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Fred Brewin, a Google product manager, has just announced that Google is upgrading its Gmail and its closely allied Google Talk instant-messaging, VoIP, and video-chat service to to “a more modern video calling technology — Google+ Hangouts.” Google+ Hangouts enables … Continue reading