Google Integrates AIM into Gmail Chat
Mountain View (CA) - Google’s somewhat underwhelming chat feature inside Gmail has now been energized with integration with the most popular IM service.
If you think you’ve heard this before, you probably have. Google initially talked about a partnership with AOL back in 2004, and was supposed to have the deal complete by the end of last year.
However, delays made it seem like the AIM integration promise would never actually come true. It has finally happened, with Gmail users able to send messages to AIM users directly within their inbox.
"AIM in Gmail is not a Google Talk and AIM federation; it’s the ability to sign in to your AIM messaging account from Gmail. Gmail uses Open AIM to provide this feature," writes Google.
The feature is available by selecting the AIM logo under the "options" tab of "Google Chat".
- Patent Suit Seeks $360 Million from Apple
- Unlimited Music Downloads from Nokia
- Motion C5: Mobile Tech Helps Real People
- 30% of HD DVD Users Acess Web Content
- OQO Mobile PC Gets HSDPA Option
- Wii is Most Searched Christmas Toy
- Yahoo Refreshes Flickr With Photo Editing
- Thomas's Music Download Appeal Fails
- German iPhone Gets Locked Up Again
- DivX Releases 6.8, Adds Multi-Core Support
- SMS Celebrates 15th Anniversary
- Microsoft Working on XP for OLPC
- IBM Comes Closer to Optical Computers
- Dell Coming to Best Buy in US
- Macrovision Buys TV Guide for $2.8 Billion
- Blu-Ray Lowers Price of Player
- JetBlue First to Offer In-Flight E-mail
- HDnet & DirecTV Settle Over Fee Dispute
- Toshiba Announces M700 Series Tablet PCs
