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    Microsoft on Thursday signed deals with two Indian cell phone companies to deliver e-mail and instant messages via SMS.

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    Microsoft plans to announce Tuesday in the US that it has purchased a small Internet calling start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messenger.

  • MSN Messenger overcomes smiley problems

    Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new versions of its instant messaging and blogging services with beefed-up community, video, search and advertising features.

  • AOL: You've got VoIP

    America Online is expected to launch an Internet-phone service in the United States next month, leapfrogging rivals in a fast-growing market as it seeks to evolve from an also-ran provider of dial-up Internet access to a broadband services powerhouse.

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    Microsoft is set to announce that it has purchased a small Internet calling start-up called Teleo, as part of a move to expand the capabilities of MSN Messenger.

  • Windows Live rooted in MSN's past

    Microsoft's new batch of services borrows heavily from current or proposed products. Is Windows Live just another name for MSN?

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    Malicious attacks now come cloaked in messages that appear to have been sent by a known instant messaging contact -- even more reason to be wary.

  • Study tattles on workplace IM

    Instant messaging is still used mostly for personal chitchat in offices, according to a new survey.

  • Olympics are a boon for Silverlight

    Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.

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    MSN Messenger 6 is a fun, exciting way to chat. Current users should upgrade.

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    We take a look at four top chat apps, all of them free, and weigh the relative merits of each.

  • MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

    Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.

  • Trillian Pro

    Consolidate all of your chat buddies into Trillian Pro 2.012. Perfect for students and office workers alike.

  • Messenger 4.5: In with the 'IM' crowd?

    Can't we all just get along? No matter which new instant-messaging (IM) client comes along, we still have to switch from one to the next in order to connect with all of our friends and associates. That's still the case with MSN Messenger 4.5, the newest edition of Microsoft's instant messenger.

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