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NIELSEN//NETRATINGS

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research, announced today that the fastest growing instant messaging destination in the last 10 months
was Meebo.com, a Web site where visitors can log in to several different instant messaging services
without downloading an Internet application.
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Protocol Support

* AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
* Facebook (See instructions)
* Gadu-Gadu
* IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange)
* ICQ

* IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
* Jabber
* MSN
* Netsend
* Tlen
* Yahoo
* And more…

Supported Operating Systems
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More Features
Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch

All-new Insider with Yahoo! Mail, news, weather, search and more

Easily find or invite friends from other services to come chat with you

Send text messages (SMS) to friends’ mobile phones for free*
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• Hardware requirements
• 1 Ghz processor or faster.
• 256 MB RAM.
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
• Microphone and speakers or headset.
• Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
• Video card driver with Xv support.

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Skype – is a free proprietary software with closed-source, providing encrypted voice communication over the Internet between computers (VoIP), as well as paid services for subscribers with regular telephone network.

The organization of the conference call (up to 25 subscribers, including the initiator) is possible, you can also send text messages and files, and also video connection is possible (currently using the standard client – up to two subscribers, and using third-party plug-ins, their number is limited only by bandwidth).
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ICQ – the U.S., and until 1998, Israeli central office of instant messaging on the Internet, is now owned by the company AOL.

Review

ICQ is a centralized instant messaging, using protocol OSCAR.

User Service works with the client program (the so-called messenger), running on the device connected to the Internet. Messenger is connected to the server.
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Quiet Internet Pager (QIP ) – is a freeware instant messaging on the protocol OSCAR, in many respects is similar to the program ICQ. QIP – is an ICQ-client with closed source, designed to work under the family of operating systems Microsoft Windows. From 2010 comes as QIP 2010.
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Yahoo! Messenger (abbreviated as Y!M) – Instant messaging of the company Yahoo!, using its own protocol.

It exists for the platforms Windows, Mac, Linux (Unix). Distributed free of charge. To use the pre-registration on the portal Yahoo! is required.

The program is designed to communicate in real time with other Internet users.
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Miranda IM is a free software – a program with open source and it is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Miranda IM client provides the environment for instant messaging networks, design and functionality which can be changed and expanded with additional plug-ins.
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