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• Yoono Desktop Manages Social Networks and IM Integrate the updates from many social networks and instant messaging programs into a single app: Yoono Desktop.
• Ride the Wave! Hands-On With Google Wave Preview Google's new communication platform is visually slick, but clearly still a work in progress.
• Find Chat Rooms to Discuss Practically Anything With PaltalkScene PaltalkScene helps you participate in chats about almost any topic.
• Free Screen-Sharing Tool Helps Businesses Collaborate Yuuguu lets participants see your screen just by connecting through a web browser, with a free plan suited to occasional meetings.
• The New AIM: Less Clunky and Annoying, More Social The new AIM aims to be not only an IM client but also an aggregator of social networking info (aka your “lifestream”) from other services, too.
• Tech Support Chat: Modern, but Inefficient A 24-minute adventure on a hardware customer service chat line probably would have gone faster on the phone.
• BlackBerry Tour 9630 Smartphone Just Misses the Mark The Tour 9630 melds the best of the RIM BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 into one slick package.
• Create a Temporary Chat Room with Tinychat Want a chat room without all the hassles of software, registration, and fees? Tinychat is the quick, easy, and free answer.
• Digsby Brings All Your IM Networks Together Communicate with your contacts across multiple instant messaging networks in the single Digsby IM client.
• E-Mail Etiquette: Tips for Home and Work Don't be someone who annoys friends and coworkers with inconsiderate e-mail habits.
• Text Messaging Etiquette: To Text or Not to Text "Don't text-message during church" and other favorites...
• Facebook Etiquette: 10 Rules for Better Socializing There's no shortage of ways to irritate friends on Facebook. We'll help you avoid the biggest etiquette pitfalls with these expert tips.
• VoxOx Connects You to Everybody on Every Social Network--For Free Stay in touch with all your contacts on all your services--Facebook, Twitter, and plain old phone--with VoxOx.
• Jackson News Spikes Chatter, AIM Goes Dark Instant messaging shifts to Twitter for instant communication on celebrity news.
• Verizon, AT&T: Buy a Texting Plan and We Won’t Rip You Off The carriers deny comparing notes, but they all overcharge unless you commit to a single-price plan that may be more than you need or want.
• AT&T: MMS 'no Extra Cost' for Text Bundle Customers Take a (brief) break from throwing darts at AT&T's logo; the company is offering a freebie to some iPhone customers.
• More Firms Banning IM Access to Enemy Nations Google and possibly AOL are jumping on Microsoft's bandwagon, banning IM services to citizens of hostile countries.
• Google Wave Frees Info from Pigeonholes New mega-application puts a social-network spin on traditional forms of communication.
• Is Google Wave the Solution to Social Network Over-Sharing? The new communication platform could be a good way to share things with only the right people.
• Password Stealers Sit on Popular Download Sites You don't have to find underground sites to pick up hacking tools and password stealers; a researcher finds one sitting right out in the open.
• The 10 Worst Microsoft Product Names of All Time From Microsoft Bob to Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft has shown a real talent for unfortunate product names. Here are our picks for the worst--along with alternatives that might have worked better.
• Girl's 22,795 Messages Nothing to Celebrate This story about a 12-year-old Indiana girl is quickly becoming a cliche ... and not a flattering one in terms of what it says about our society.
• Twitter Clickjacking Attack Causes Post-Awards Annoyance Just as Twitter Nation celebrates its first official Shorty Awards, so called Twitter clickjacking attacks are crashing the party.
• Want Facebook on TV? You're Not Alone More than a third of users surveyed say they'd like to access social networks and messaging via their TV sets.
• Is E-mail for Old Fogeys? E-mail was the Internet's first killer application, but now it appears to be dying out -- at least among teenagers.