Google’s popular mail client Gmail was boosted by the integration of the AOL Instant Messenger today. While there was no official announcement of the integration, users of Gmail would have noticed a new “sign into AIM” option on their toolbar highlighted in brown.
Dec
5
His attack was a single line of JavaScript that performed two functions. First, it set up an error handler that would download and run a malicious file from the internet. Then it directed the AIM client to try and display a non-existent image from the web. Because the image link was broken, AIM 6.5 followed the error instructions and turned over the victim’s computer to the attack.
Dec
5
Once you have entered your AIM login information, your AIM contacts will appear immediately with your Gmail contacts. The feature also allows you to select an AIM contact and chat directly with them instantaneously. However, there is a catch. The new feature is only available to the users who use English Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. However, Google joining hands with AOL for new combined chat tools might be a start of further things to come.
Dec
5
Yesterday, Google announced that you can now login talk to AOL Instant Messenger uses via Google Talk, through Google Talk’s Gmail interface. Making the two instant messaging tools work together is a feature promised way back when AOL and Google formed a strategic alliance in December 2005.
Dec
5
After introducing colored labels earlier this week, Google now seems to be rolling out a web-based client for AOL Instant Messenger chatting as part of Gmail. You will still need an AIM account, as Google Talk and AOL are not joining forces, but Google is merely using the Open AIM framework. Ionut Alex. Chitu foreshadowed this functionality in his blog a while ago .
Dec
5
Gmail users who love the ease of chatting with their buddies from right within the Gmail interface have one more reason to be happy. Starting today Gmail users can sign into their AIM accounts via Gmail chat and talk with AIM buddies just as they do with their Google Talk friends. Apart from that, features such as chat history and automatic sorting of buddies based on frequency of communication, will work seamlessly across Google and AIM buddies.
Dec
4
You all forget about ICQ? Wheres that on your page? It has a huge userbase as well. I can even have them all interconnected. I use miranda. A nice little program, which can talk all the talk there is. Just create accounts for all, set em up and get going with anyone using whatever service they like. Aim, Icq, Msn, yahoo, you name them. One unified solution would be great. But as long as I m able to get connected with everyone, I don t really care that much.
Dec
4
It also sets up a little faceoff with the combined forces of Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger which enabled interoperability between their two IM services last year. Increasingly, IM providers are looking at instant messaging as another way to engage their users and keep them in their little world. Windows Live, for example, allows users to play games together over IM.
Dec
4
Another new feature that Google added last night was colored tabs for labels. This feature, previously only available through plug-ins like Better Gmail , lets users assign colors to labels to make it easier to keep track of them. From the Labels panel, click on the square next to the label and a drop-down menu of colors will appear. Select a color and your e-mail list will refresh, with the label name on e-mails now in vibrant life-affirming hues.
Nov
30
Some of the aims of the “physiome project” at the $6 million Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland are: Carrying out virtual operations to predict results of surgery on children with cerebral palsy. Surgeons would lengthen or shorten muscles on computer models to simulate the child’s gait to test the likely success of surgery. Testing drug toxicity using computers.