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AOL Instant Messenger Beta 4.8 review
Reviews AOL Instant Messenger's look hasn't changed much over the years, and it's still just as easy to operate: AIM marks your buddies as either offline or online so that you know who's available in an instant.
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
AOL releases new Instant Messenger
News Microsoft's MSN Messenger program was released last month, adding new features and -- more importantly -- a way for non-AOL users to contact users of AOL Instant Messenger. While AOL said it has been working on the upgrade for several months, the...
[August 24, 1999, 15:41]
AOL teaching Instant Messenger to talk
News America Online latest beta version 3.5 of its Instant Messenger software features "AIM Talk," which lets users speak directly with the person they're IM-ing. We're always enhancing the IM product, so this is just a natural progression," explained...
[November 1, 1999, 9:43]
AOL builds messenger allies
News In the latest move, AOL has been kicking Microsoft Messenger users off the service, with a notice that they are using "unauthorised software. Both Earthlink Network and Mindspring Enterprises will offer co-branded versions of AOL's popular instant...
[August 6, 1999, 14:52]
AOL blocks instant spam
News In a move quickly discovered by spammers, the AOL Time Warner subsidiary made a few technical changes last week to stop a relatively new type of annoying message that uses the Messenger Service in Windows to cause unsolicited marketing to appear...
[November 26, 2002, 7:46]
AIM taken offline by 'glitch'
News America Online says a glitch temporarily blocked access to its instant messaging system, AOL Instant Messenger, a free service that enables people to chat with one another instantly. AOL's AIM service, with 29.1 million members, in recent months...
[April 4, 2001, 10:09]
AOL blocks iCaster from AIM program
News America Online (AOL) has now blocked iCast, a CMGI company, from accessing its AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) program.iCast's iCaster application combines a multimedia player with messaging, using technology from Tribal Voice, another CMGI firm.
[March 2, 2000, 13:14]
UPDATE: AOL Europe unclear on hack threat
News The European offices of AOL do not know whether its subscribers are at risk from malicious computer hackers who have reportedly exploited a security hole in its Instant Messenger service, discovered Monday.
[January 25, 2000, 12:20]
Experts - AOL will seek restraining order over chat
News Microsoft confirmed this morning that users of its MSN Messenger service, which promises access to AOL's 40 million subscribers, was working with AOL's Instant Messenger. Hostilities between AOL and Microsoft over instant messaging continued Monday...
[July 26, 1999, 15:15]
AOL Blocks MSN... again
News Microsoft last week introduced its MSN Messenger tool with the ability to exchange instant messages with of AOL Instant Messenger users, but AOL last Friday changed its system to lock out Messenger and other competing applications from Yahoo!
[July 30, 1999, 9:31]
AOL rushes to block Messenger hole
News AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. The security bug affects AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 4.7...
[January 3, 2002, 8:37]
AIM opens up to Macromedia developers
News America Online on Wednesday said it will open the door for Macromedia software developers to create applications on its AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ products. AOL offers AIM and ICQ as a free download from the Web and also offers instant-messaging...
[November 19, 2003, 14:55]
AOL: Fix for critical IM flaw due this week
News AOL acknowledged on Tuesday that its Instant Messenger client is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow attack, and promised that a fix would be available to users within days. The client update beta due this week will be located at AOL's Instant...
[August 10, 2004, 15:20]
AIM+ 'spyware' component to be removed
News The creator of an add-on program for AOL Time Warner's Instant Messenger plans to eradicate a component that phones home after critics called the feature "spyware. Programmed by Ryan Evans, who graduated this year from the University of Michigan's...
[June 7, 2002, 13:44]
AIM add-on prompts spyware concerns
News People who use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) have started complaining on AOL message boards and publications such as BroadbandReports.com after software bundled with AIM 5.5 began showing up in "spyware" scans.
[March 3, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft gives ground in IM wars
News The beta release of the new version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger Program does not have the ability to connect users to those using AOL Instant Messenger. Microsoft and AOL both say they will work with the Internet Engineering Task Force, which is...
[November 18, 1999, 10:16]
AIM security hole still threatens users
News AOL Time Warner failed to properly fix a security hole in its AOL Instant Messenger application, leaving its users vulnerable to a new way to exploit the same flaw, a security researcher said at the weekend.
[May 7, 2002, 11:25]
AOL, Sun get buddy-buddy
News Its America Online division, which owns the two most popular instant messaging services, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ, has long been criticised by competitors for blocking efforts to communicate with its products.
[October 25, 2001, 9:33]
AOL plugs AIM security hole
News AOL Time Warner on Thursday plugged a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could have provided wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. As previously reported, the security bug affected AOL Instant Messenger...
[January 4, 2002, 11:02]
Sun, AOL collaborate on instant messaging
News Much of the competition, though, is with free mainstream instant messaging software such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger and Microsoft's MSN Messenger. And While iPlanet could tap into AOL's vast instant messaging audience...
[July 16, 2001, 13:58]
