In mobile, email, its newly acquired About.me service and in its new video chat service, the company is trying to erase your memories of AOL dial-up CDs in your mailbox.
Tencent is a minority investor in VinaGame and has struck a deal to bring its QQ chat and casual games to VinaGame.
The PS Vita already has voice chat and text chat through its built-in Party application.
Starting this month, Ovi Mail moved from its own platform and began migrating to Yahoo, the fruits of a " worldwide strategic alliance" between the two companies announced in May of last year in which Yahoo agreed to offer its Mail and Chat services to nine million registered Ovi users in exchange for access to Nokia's navigation and map services.
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Many commentators said Obama's appearance was a coup for Reddit and the chat would help its march towards mainstream influence alongside other social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
The deal is the first of its kind for AOL and for Facebook, which launched its own chatting service, Facebook Chat, in 2008.
Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype's messaging tool.
Updated: Attempting to break the frozen China IPO market in the U.S., China-based voice and video chat company YY Inc. priced its initial public offering at the low end of its expected range, but traded up 10% in early trading Wednesday.
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The browser, which enables people to follow Twitter and Facebook posts and chat with friends while visiting websites, was covered heavily in the media, partly because of its funding from Andreessen Horowitz, whose founder Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape.
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If Polycom is successful, branching into mobile video chat should help its core conferencing business and strengthen its bid to be the technology that links other, closed networks.
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Its business has been built on chat-rooms for teenagers, e-mail, craftily packaged information and an unremitting quest to make its on-line services friendly to even the most technophobic web neophyte.
Microsoft, which has its own Web services such as Bing search and Skype video chat, also is conducting such trials in Africa.
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In other iOS 6 news, Apple announced that its FaceTime video-chat feature for newer iPhones and iPads will work over cellular networks, not just Wi-Fi.
Cupid confirmed that it does employ a "motivation team", but said its activities included mystery shopping, site monitoring and moderation of chat rooms and forums, not enticing "paying subscribers to renew".
Our business editor added that after Sir Mervyn entered the fray, and the Treasury informed Goldman that one of its ministers wanted a chat about the issue, "it is perhaps little surprise" that Goldman "thought it better of using the ruse".
AOL's chat-rooms, forums and instant messaging that underpin its dominance.
Jolla launched its Sailfish SDK at MWC 2013 and we got the chance to chat with CEO Marc Dillon about the company's history and find out how things have been coming along with Sailfish OS since our hands-on late last year.
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is in its second year of running one of the largest text and chat outreach operations for people ages 15 to 24, targeting African-American and Latino youth through promotional campaigns on MTV, websites and mobile providers, social media, wallet cards, video and Seventeen magazine.
The 2, 436 pilots who belong to COPA can log on and jump into a chat in which Cirrus is being spit-roasted for its "shortsighted" management, "cheap" airplanes and "uncommunicative" owners.
Its argument is simple: it's not blocking you from using any video chat application you want, but it is exercising its right to manage the doors through which all chat applications can and can't be used.
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Its chairman, Bill Dobbie, said it had about 500 "staff profiles" on its websites - but he insisted they were used for moderating chat rooms and forums - and to root out scammers.
Its chairman, Bill Dobbie, said it had about 500 "staff profiles" on its websites, but he insisted they were used for moderating chat rooms and forums, as well as rooting out scammers.
Kent would rather look at pictures of Kate, or show off parts of himself in video chat rooms, than have a relationship, with its endless obligations and its curtailment of his vegetative freedom.
"We've had people who are walking and they just needed to get out of their house because they had an argument with their parent, so they're texting us as they're calming down, " said Jennifer James, who supervises chat and text outreach for Common Ground, which also serves adults from its base in southeastern Michigan.
David says the group now has its sights on Hungary, Israel and Spain, and volunteer hackers are again massing on Web chat boards.
It also has its own, smaller magazine, its own chat room (not as heavily used as the one on Cyberteens), and a reading room.
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On its website, Amesys says its "strategic nationwide interception" system can detect email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and see chat conversations on MSN instant messaging and AIM.
Vivox is known for its voice chat integrations with gaming companies such as Sony, Electronic Arts, Linden Labs and Nexon, wherein gamers can talk to each other while playing.
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But there were already signs that, with its mix of games, e-mail, chat, news, forums, travel and other information, Mr Case's service had a bounce that well-financed but stodgier rivals, such as Prodigy and CompuServe, lacked.
Since its August 25 pre-launch, ArenaNet has given players three-day suspensions for offensive names and chat.
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