Developer John Heaton has found a string of code within iOS that could point to Apple’s iChat going to the mobile platform at some point in the future. The strings of code mention Jabber and AIM, both of which are in iChat, alongside FaceTime and iMessage. The code could just be standard for all of more »

Google has announced an upgrade to it’s Google Talk service, making it easier for users to communicate with friends on other services. Starting right now you can talk to your friends who use AIM right from Google Talk. Your AIM friends can be added directly into Google Talk, all you have to do is add more »

The next major update to the Windows Phone operating system currently known as Mango will have a few more enhanced features that haven’t been officially revealed by Microsoft just yet. Much like the previous unofficial announcement, this news is also coming from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast. We can expect some substantial changes to the Windows Phone 7 operating system including support for Facebook Chat that’s built right in.

RIM’s BlackBerry is about to get a lot more unproductive. Welcome to the BlackBerry App World, which will help get RIM’s super-duper business machine to compete against the iPhone and its App Store. To get to the BlackBerry App World, you have to download it. You can download it from the phone by typing in more »

If you like being hooked into all of your instant messaging services without opening up a hundred IM clients, Meebo is a great alternative. Meebo is a web application that lets you log in to tons of IM services.

Meebo already supported AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo. Now they’ve added support for Facebook and MySpace. You can now talk to all you friends everywhere online in one interface without any downloads.