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Google and AOL align; AIM and Google Talk interoperability

Posted on: 21st December 2005
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Posted by Phu
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Hidden amongst the announcement of Google will invest $1 billion investment in AOL is the following agreement: "Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met"

An interesting development for the instant messaging world; I wonder what the certain conditions are and how Yahoo and Microsoft respond?

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