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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The software creates its own virtual private network (on port 5190, IP fans) with the AOL servers, and sends all the email, Web traffic and instant messenger stuff through that. That would be bad enough, were it not for AOL's Instant Messenger...
[June 21, 2002, 11:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The best reason I can think of for upgrading -- not being a corporate soul -- is the MSN Messenger client. That and a wireless network would be a worthwhile innovation; nothing else I've got at the moment will let me do that instant messenger thing...
[October 8, 2001, 15:03]
Windows Live, Facebook hit the Xperia X1
Blog The Windows Live panel uses existing Windows Live ID to sync contacts held in the X1's phonebook, and the panel will provide easy access to an intuitive Microsoft messenger interface, including Hotmail and Live Messenger, the world’s most widely...
[November 25, 2008, 14:46]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Yahoo Instant Messenger and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger have also left the door open in several instances it seems. Are we being sold down the river by some of the social networks that we are placing some degree of trust in as we use them for...
[September 1, 2009, 8:28]
Microsoft: does NO-ONE in Redmond get Web 2.0?
Blog I have used Live Messenger for many years and it remains my preferred IM solution to this day. In its Live services, such as Messenger and Hotmail (and this could extend out to Outlook easily) it has details of your "social graph", people you know.
[November 13, 2008, 11:59]
Service Pack 3 OR Surprise Package 3?
Blog Everything except Remote Terminal Services and Windows Messenger are updated regularly. Likewise Windows Messenger has been removed and shutoff permanently. You've probably already read some of the interesting issues brought about by installing SP3...
[June 7, 2008, 16:03]
Are you staying ‘cyber-dependent’ this yuletide?
Blog Just imagine it - three whole days and nights without email, phone, SMS, Twitter, Instant Messenger, BlackBerry or even TV coverage. It was back in May of this year that I first blogged on the subject of my aunt’s cabin the backwoods of...
[December 23, 2008, 12:56]
Are you staying ‘cyber-dependent’ this yuletide?
Blog Just imagine it - three whole days and nights without email, phone, SMS, Twitter, Instant Messenger, BlackBerry or even TV coverage. It was back in May of this year that I first blogged on the subject of my aunt’s cabin the backwoods of...
[December 22, 2008, 23:14]
Windows Live / Hotmail problems
Blog I had my MSN/Windows Live Messenger on from the start of the day and all seemed fine. Here at ZDNet.co.uk we've been wondering why we've been getting so many hits today on old stories about Hotmail and MSN problems.
[February 26, 2008, 17:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Time after time some statement or promise from MS turned out to have been less than 100 per cent on the nail, and since Text was the messenger it got tarred with the same hammer. Time was when I used to blame Microsoft's PR company, Text 100, for...
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Just as well, as T-Mobile has been shipping MS Messenger on its Windows Mobile smartphones for a while: it's one thing to have an unreasonable ban on a service, quite another to then implicitly promote its use.
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
More on Windows Mobile 6
Blog Full integration with Windows Live - that means Hotmail (as they've decided to call it again, having given up on the "Windows Live Mail" moniker), Windows Live Messenger are both accessible from the homescreen with one click.
[February 12, 2007, 13:45]
IT Departments Are More Than A Fixer
Blog Most of us contact our IT department every day, especially when Facebook won’t load or we want to change our display picture in Windows Live Messenger, and most of us would say that our IT requests were completed within a few hours.
[May 19, 2008, 9:51]
Thursday
Blog So I've got the laptop on the bedside shelving, quietly monitoring our instant messenger channel as I sleep -- and if something comes up before me, a sharp PPPPRING! Thursday 7/11/2002 Wireless changes your life in all sorts of other ways, too.
[November 8, 2002, 16:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It looks on the surface like an instant messenger client with telephony built in, an idea that's hardly new, but it has a long list of nice features like decent call management, directories and logging.
[December 19, 2003, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thanks to new, convenient, productivity enhancing tools, you now need the right magic on the laptop to access the corporate network from your hotel room, the right tools to do the writing, the instant messenger stuff, email clients.and that's...
[February 22, 2002, 15:18]
Wednesday
Blog Instant Messenger's voice chat feature. Wednesday 11/09/2002 It's here: Nine Eleven. Curiously, if you avoid the TV and the papers, it seems much like business as normal. There's a moment's silence at the beginning of the show, but that's it.
[September 13, 2002, 18:02]
Virtualised Windows 7 Migration
Blog Parallels says that its new product can overcome compatibility issues with apps such as Roxio 2009 and AOL Instant Messenger by using its adaptive hypervisor and tools such as Coherence and SmartSelect - both technologies designed to help run...
[May 5, 2009, 11:01]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog However, I noticed that promotion was changed to include MS Live Messenger about six months ago, and I wondered then if Logitech was falling out of love with Skype. What an interesting piece of news to wake up to this morning!
[October 29, 2008, 8:59]
Is the corporate line obscuring the real security message?
Blog You see, Sky needs to maintain a corporate image of absolute and total security, Easynet's messenger said. It's curious how two telecoms companies have both been broken into in the last fortnight. No-one's pointed out a link, but the two telcos...
[November 6, 2006, 17:00]
