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As part of their major truce announced Thursday, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft pledged to discuss making their instant messenger products talk to each other.
AOL Time Warner is quite the distracted behemoth today, so it is unsurprising that virtually nothing is going on in instant messaging, an area where the company has achieved significant success in the past.
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America Online says it will allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the company's two popular IM services.
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