It was, says the FSA, "discussed in internal open chat forums and group emails, and was widely known".
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At no point has Microsoft offered to open its own chat client to AOL or anyone else -- openness only goes one way here.
For instance, consumers could open up a chat screen within their browser and drag a video from a Web page into the screen to share immediately.
Now when people using Rockmelt and click to chat with someone on the Facebook site, the chat window will open in the Rockmelt browser, not in the Facebook site.
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The area where exhibits are tested and built with an impressive collection of large machinery is situated at the heart of the museum, now completely open so anyone can watch and chat up the staff and students at work.
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"I had another chat with him and left open the possibility for him to apologise, " said the 57-year-old.
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His open-source encrypted peer-to-peer chat product went through rigorous challenges in the security community ultimately resulting in safer design choices.
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The entire San Francisco Design Center was cordoned off by at least 50 police and Secret Service agents as the Launch Festival prepared to open with Israeli President Shimon Peres in a fireside chat with angel investor Yossi Vardi and conference producer Jason Calacanis.
Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
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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