LinkSys, together with Yahoo!, offers a cordless phone that supports Yahoo! Messenger with Voice’s VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service. By using Linksys’ CIT310 Dual-Mode Cordless phone, users of Yahoo! Messengers that subcribe to Yahoo! Phone Out service can conveniently make free internet-based calls to their friends or families on their Contact List. Connected to a USB base station, the phone gives people the freedom to take their Yahoo! Messenger with Voice calls away from the PC and into other rooms. Of course, traditional landline/PSTN phone connection is supported as well, and users can instantly switch between the two services with the touch of a button.

The Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310) is currently available on Amazon for $99.99. And here’s the detail list of features:

• Supports Yahoo! Messenger with Voice’s Internet-based calling services
• Free PC-to-PC calling
• Phone Out: PC-to-Phone calling
• Phone In: Phone-to-PC calling
• Supports traditional landline/PSTN calls using a local phone line
• Color Display
• Yahoo! Messenger Contact List display and search
• Yahoo! Local Search based on city zip codes
• Weather search
• Yahoo! Messenger Status Message (available, online, busy, etc.)
• Yahoo! Address Book access
• Call waiting for both incoming VoIP and PSTN calls
• Intercom Call between handsets
• Caller ID for both VoIP and PSTN calls
• Last Number Redial
• Polyphonic ring tones, and Melodies
• Single base station supports up to six additional DECT based phones for PTSN calls
• Headset jack for connecting a headset
• Multi-language support (English, French, Spanish)
• A full charge on the battery enables up to 100 hours of standby time and up to 10 hours of talk time

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According to See Chin-Teik, Vice President of Consumer Products and Mobile Business Group, HP Personal Systems Group, Asia-Pacific and Japan, “The super-chic HP iPAQ rw6800 Multimedia Messenger Series is designed in Asia with the Asian consumer in mind as part of HP’s Designed in Asia for Asia (DIAFA) initiative to reflect the young Asian consumer’s chic, minimalist style today“.

The HP iPAQ rw6800 Series Multimedia Messenger will be launched on Q2 2006. Price will be revealed later before the release date.

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AIMOnPSP is an AOL Instant Messenger client for the Sony Playstation Portable. The purpose of this project was to make a web-based AIM client that can be used in almost any browser that supports JavaScript (such as the one included in the new PSP firmware); it uses no Java or Flash. AIMOnPSP is a free service and runs from our server which means that you don’t have to download anything or load anything onto your PSP in order to use it.

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Skype itself is a VoIP client software that enable telephone conversations via the Internet. Calls to other Skype users are free as well as calls to regular telephone and mobile telephone numbers all over the world are at a low rate. Apart from that, Skype also able to act like a normal instant messenger software, by sending a text message to other Skype users around the world in real time.

What’s new on Skype:

• Bug fix: fixed certain Skype calls that were vulnerable to buffer overflow
• Bug fix: Skype ring sound never stopped when call was automatically answered
• Bug fix: user’s avatar disappears after they are logged in continiously for 7 days
• Bug fix: problems with handling Skype usernames that did not start with a letter
• Bug fix: Skype passwords were occasionally not remembered during first login

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Users of the two instant messaging service will not just able to exchange instant messages, but also able to see their friends’ online presence, share select emoticons, and add new contacts from either service to their friends’ list.

Currently, AOL instant messaging service (AIM) holds the biggest shares on the instant messaging market. They 51.5 million unique U.S. users in September, compared with about 27.3 million for MSN Messenger and 21.9 million for Yahoo’s Messenger, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

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Skype is a software that enable telephone conversations via the Internet. Calls to other Skype users are free as well as calls to regular telephone and mobile telephone numbers all over the world are at a low rate. Apart from that, Skype also able to act like a normal instant messenger software, by sending a text message to other Skype users around the world in real time.

What’s New:

• change: voicemail check box was made to wrap text in order to fit longer texts
• bugfix: Some Japanese text did not display correctly on Windows 2000
• bugfix: improved communication when detecting contacts voicemail and call forwarding privileges
• bugfix: Yen mark was not displayed correctly on Skype client
• bugifx: receiving calls from users starting with a dot produced an error
• bugfix: entering an invalid character to voicemail check box produced an error
• bugfix: importing contacts from Visit Card produced an error
• bugfix: ring sound never quit when answering a call by joining it to conference
• bugfix: starting a chat to yourself using Skype link produced an error
• bugfix: ‘promote add to contacts’ dialog was missing
• bugifx: Swedish EULA was missing in new user creation form
• bugfix: API access control list was unusable with high DPI settings
• new language files: German (Claudius Henrichs & Dick Schiferli) French (Fabrice Imperial) Portuguese Brazilian(Anna Nyström ) Hebrew (Ronen Ben-Naftali) Russian (Viktoria Randalainen/Tatjana Kruti) Turkish (Emin Dede) Hungarian (Mark Bender) Bulgarian (Nikolina Filipova, Nikolay Filipov)

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“Over the past three months the nature of the IM threat has continued to evolve with increasing levels of sophistication and rates of infection demonstrated by IM worms and viruses,” IMlogic CTO Jon Sakoda said.

MSN Messenger users are the number one target of the attack, sharing 62% of reported incidents. 31% goes to AIM client, and the rest, 7%, targets Yahoo! Messenger users. Among all of the attack, 87% were worm-based, 12% hijacked file transfer to deliver viruses, and 1% utilized system vulnerabilities. Altogether, 713 different threats have been reported for IM and P2P applications.

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Fortunately, AIM Ad Hack is here. Like the A-Patch, AIM Ad Hack is capable to remove the (annoying) ad from your AIM window. It supports both the stable version of this instant messenger (v5.9) and the beta version of the new AIM, Triton (v0.6).

Aside from removing the ad, AIM Ad Hack also able to tweak your AIM application. Click here for the full features list of this software.

You can download AIM Ad Hack from here: [ v5.0 Beta 7 (Triton) ] [ v4.13 ]

I’m not using AIM so I can’t personally test it. If anyone has used it before, let us know your experience with AIM Ad Hack.

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