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The US is set to allow instant messaging, web browsing and other communications tech in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, in a move to help promote freedom of speech.

It's good to chat

Microsoft is celebrating the tenth birthday of the hugely popular instant messaging client Windows Live Messenger today.

Hot on the heels of updates on Windows Mobile and iPhone

Globaltel Media today launched the pre-release version of its new application, dubbed Cherple, which allows two-way text communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular devices.

Exclusive Microsoft has insisted that Nielsen figures on the decline of Instant Messaging "no more signal the end of IM than they do the end of email".

Almost from out of nowhere, we have the surprise news that Apple has filed for a patent suggesting that it will be bringing instant messaging to the iPhone

GoMessenger launches this Friday

Do you really want your phone to tell you you've been bitten by a zombie?

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