He opened iChat, and clicked his name on her chat list.

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With publicly hosted open source software, social media feeds of on-going development and an active community mailing list and live chat, developers have easy access to support and exchange of ideas.

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Those four, like the other best-paid personalities on our annual list, are paid handsomely to chat.

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We just figured if we can make it so you can run normal Facebook and a buddy list so you can more easily chat with whom you want.

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One of the benefits of buying a Windows Phone 8 handset with a Nokia stamp is the exclusive apps, and today we can add another to that list with the beta release of Nokia Chat for WP8.

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So it would seem after glancing at the list of corporate chieftains invited to the White House tomorrow to chat with the president about the fiscal cliff.

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Skype works very much like an instant messaging program, but allows users to call people on their buddy list and have a voice conversation instead of a text-based chat.

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Users just click on a person in their buddy list, and if that person has the right hardware, users can launch a video chat.

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By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.

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