It does e-mail, up to three separate accounts, as well as SMS and AOL's instant messaging.
Now Aimster is looking to give users of AOL's instant messaging software the chance to swap files.
Now it seems that the latest worm to infect AOL's instant messaging community, Aim, actually chats with the users it is targeting in order to persuade them to download and run an infected file.
AOL's dominance in instant messaging has been a major concern of regulators looking at the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner.
According to ComScore Media Metrix, in July, AOL's instant-messaging service had over 41 million users in the U.S. alone, Yahoo!
While AOL offers its services and instant messaging to several mobile carriers and PDA platforms, it's only company-led foray into wireless Internet is through its Mobile Communicator product: a Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) Blackberry, running on Cingular Wireless ' network, that has e-mail and instant messenger.
So far, AOL has struck deals to deliver instant messaging via SMS with two network operators, VoiceStream Wireless in the United States and Hutchison Telecommunications in Hong Kong, according to Jon Eric Bylin, senior product manager at America Online's AOL Mobile division.
The proliferation of information technology makes AOL's 35 million customers and instant messaging feature valuable.
Despite the tech-stock meltdown, the proliferation of information technology makes AOL's 35 million customers and instant messaging feature valuable.
After three years of mudslinging, the three giants that control 95% of the instant-messaging market-- AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people ) with 180 million users, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) with 75 million and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), 20 million--still refuse to let their customers contact those in rival camps.
AOL's chat-rooms, forums and instant messaging that underpin its dominance.
Looking to shed weight and beef up a sleek new image as a Web-based media company, AOL is attempting to sell off its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging system ICQ.
Although AOL is prepared to open up its Instant Messenger servers to GSM network operators, it remains steadfastly opposed to the idea of doing so for users of other instant messaging services -- although these services are not taking AOL's resistance lying down.
By offering instant-messaging capabilities, Google only catches up with rivals at AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Some of the most interesting speculation has centered around iChat, Apple's instant-messaging client that lets users send messages using their buddy lists from AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
Acquired by AOL two years ago, ICQ now has 70 million users, making it the largest instant-messaging service in the world.
Apple says the new software has 150 new features, among them an instant-messaging client called iChat that's compatible with America Online 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
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