AOL Instant Messenger ( AIM ) is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.

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Category: Instant messaging clients

Instant messaging is an example of a product that displays local network effects.

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* Instant messaging and the Buddy list becomes popular.

Instant messaging applications such as Psi and Fire can automatically secure messages when GnuPG is installed and configured.

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* Instant messaging and e-mail are examples of computer software designed for delivering human-readable messages in formatted or unformatted text, from one person to another.

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Instant messaging falls under the umbrella term online chat, since it is also text-based, bi-directionally exchanged, and happens in real-time.

Instant messaging is a set of communication technologies used for text-based communication between two or more participants over the Internet or other types of networks.

Modern, Internet-wide, GUI-based messaging clients as they are known today, began to take off in the mid 1990s with PowWow, ICQ, and AOL Instant Messenger.

There have been several attempts to create a unified standard for instant messaging: IETF's Session Initiation Protocol ( SIP ) and SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions ( SIMPLE ), Application Exchange ( APEX ), Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol ( IMPP ), the open XML-based Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ( XMPP ), and Open Mobile Alliance's Instant Messaging and Presence Service developed specifically for mobile devices.

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In addition, AOL Instant Messenger provides a real-time text feature called Real-Time IM.

The introduction of Instant Messaging ( IM ) in contact centers is starting to take off.

The program was originally written by Mark Spencer, an Auburn University sophomore, as an emulation of AOL's IM program AOL Instant Messenger on Linux using the GTK + toolkit.

* RFC 6121, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ( XMPP ): Instant Messaging and Presence describes instant messaging ( IM ), the most common application of XMPP.

The Web browser was replaced with Opera Mini whereas the Instant Messaging clients were replaced with one universal client which also allows the user to connect to an IM service through an XMPP server.

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* interoperability with public IM networks via the IBM Sametime Gateway, including AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo!

The Nokia 3595 includes an IM client for AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ in the latest firmware revisions.

* OMA SIMPLE IM Instant messaging based on SIP-SIMPLE

* IM 101: Wireless Village — an informative article from Instant Messaging Planet

Instant messaging ( IM ) services are used by some libraries as a low-cost means of offering chat-based reference, since most IM services are free.

Lync Server also enables organizations to interoperate with four external IM services: AOL Instant Messenger,. NET Messenger Service, Yahoo!

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

AIM Call Out is a discontinued Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service provided by AOL via its AOL Instant Messenger ( AIM ) application that replaced the defunct AIM Phoneline service in November 2007.

In South Africa, quinine is an ingredient of a Clifton Instant Drink named Chikree produced by Tiger Food Brands.

For example, the politics of Australia are largely two-party ( if the Liberal Party and National Party are considered the same party at a national level due to their long-standing alliance ) for the Australian House of Representatives, which is elected by Instant Runoff Voting, ( known within Australia as preferential voting ).

Instant or automatic word recognition is a necessary, but not sufficient, reading skill.

The latest design is Instant Anti-Reverse, or IAR.

The term " Instant Messenger " is a service mark of Time Warner and may not be used in software not affiliated with AOL in the United States.

UK cassette culture was championed by marginal musicians and performers such as Barry Lamb, Storm Bugs, the insane picnic, Instant Automatons, Stripey Zebras, What is Oil ?, The APF Brigade, Blyth Power, The Peace & Freedom Band, Academy 23, Sean Terrington Wright, Frenzid Melon, Cleaners From Venus, Chumbawamba, 5ive Ximes 0f Dust and many of the purveyors of Industrial music, e. g. Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and Clock DVA.

This is especially evident in songs like " The Unattainable Earth " ( which was named after one of Miłosz ' books ), " Safety Net ", " Pictures of the Gone World ", " Divine Instant ", and " Half Light, Epoch, and Phase ".

He is often accompanied by his dog " K-9 ", and sometimes by other creatures ( one gag, first used in Hare-Way to the Stars ( 1957 ), being candy-sized " Instant Martians " that become full-size on addition of drops of water ).

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, used to screen individuals attempting to receive a firearm, is operated from the facility.

Instant miso soup is available in single-serving packets.

Instant miso soup is available in many grocery stores outside of Japan.

The complete series of The Good Life including the Specials is available in the US through Amazon Instant Video streaming.

In a single winner election, in which STV becomes the same as Instant Run-off Voting, the Droop quota becomes a simple integral majority quota – that is, it will be equal to an absolute majority of votes.

However, it is decentralized — by design, there is no central authoritative server, as there is with services such as AOL Instant Messenger or Windows Live Messenger.