Add To Watchlist

AIM

The Wire

2 charged in 1975 American Indian Movement slaying

A Canadian man and a South Dakota woman were charged in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member, who prosecutors say was killed because the group's leaders suspected she was a government informant.

Aiding murder charged dropped in 1975 AIM slaying

A federal judge dismissed a key charge Thursday against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member.

New indictment in AIM slaying days after dismissal

A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges.

3rd charged in '75 American Indian Movement death

A federal grand jury has indicted a third man in connection with the 1975 slaying of an American Indian Movement member on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Feds must turn over underwear from '75 AIM slaying

Attorneys for a former American Indian Movement activist accused of murdering another member of the group in 1975 must be allowed to conduct DNA tests on the victim's underwear, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.

Israel Says It Has Improved Airstrikes

Amer Qurmot never saw it coming: In a split second, an Israeli missile killed the 44-year-old Palestinian rocket mastermind as he walked along a road in the northern Gaza Strip.

Man to Be Extradited to US for '75 Death

A Canadian man accused of killing an American Indian Movement activist in 1975 will be extradited to the United States to stand trial.

Man, 72, Misses Monkeys, Hits Neighbor

A Malaysian villager who was aiming to shoot wild monkeys encroaching on his garden shot his neighbor instead, police said Friday. The neighbor suffered slight injuries.

AIM Expands Mobile Options With Texting

Now you can access AOL's popular instant-messaging service using cell phone text messaging.

New AIM Software Lets Users Share Tunes

Now you can listen to the music your friends enjoy while chatting away online.

The Vine
Republicans aim for rival health plan in House
Source: Yahoo! News

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to offer an alternative to Democrats' massive healthcare reform bill that would not raise taxes or require people or businesses to buy health insurance, the House Republican leader said on Sunday.

Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him
Source: CNN

How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.

Six ways in which President Obama has changed America in just six months

Americans haven't yet noticed that they have had a sea change, for the better, perhap because they are part of it. But being detached from the country looking in, it is quite astounding to see the difference in atmosphere and aspirations in such a short time.

Goose shooter cleared over wayward toilet seat pot shot
Source: thelocal.se

A hunter from western Sweden has been cleared of charges of endangering human life after accidentally shooting a distant toilet seat rather than the goose at which he had taken aim.

Leonard Peltier: Time for Truth? Or Cause Celebre?
Source: artoriuscastus.wordpress.com

Where's your email going?

Let me preface this by stating that as a simple and effective search engine I really do like Google.

Ellen Moves Camp - Hero of Wounded Knee
Source: workers.org

Ellen Moves Camp, known along with Gladys Bissonnette as the "Grandmas of the American Indian Movement (AIM)," passed April 5 at the age of 77 on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

IM Helps Reduce Workplace Interruption
Source: Science Daily

Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant messaging software, a new study suggests.

Land of the Freeware: Trillian Astra, an alpha product with a lot to look forward to

My student friends all use Google Talk or AIM. One of my editors uses Windows Live Messenger. My church friends all use Skype. My gaming friends all use Xfire. Obviously, I can't download all five clients and run them all at the same time.

AOL Opens AIM Some More
Source: instantmessagingplanet.com

AOL today announced that it has launched Open AIM 2.0, an update to the API and SDK the company provides to third-party instant messaging developers who write clients and services for use with AOL's AIM network.

AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy
Source: TechCrunch

There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop - multiheaded clients and websites that allow users to access all of the major instant messaging platforms in one place.

Adium Product Manager Retires from Project
Source: adiumx.com

Chris Forsythe, aka The_Tick , is retiring from the position of Adium Project Manager after 3 years of hard work in that capacity and several years before that of deep involvement in the Adium community.

Random Status Messages

I decided to start a collection of random status messages people have set on their IM:

AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber
Source: florianjensen.com

Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you'll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber.

$6.4 trillion of electronic trades made on London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana during 2007

During 2007, 212 million electronic equity trades, with a combined value of £3.2 trillion (€4.7 trillion), were carried out on the cash markets of Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange.

Video Demo: Shopping with an AIM, MSN, Yahoo or Google Buddy
Source:

A 35 second demo on chatting and shopping with an IM buddy who is currently not a bunnybot user.

Google adds AIM chat in Gmail
Source: Google

Gmail chat now offers the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.

The technology, and methodology of downloading things you shouldn't off the internet.

Downloading copyrighted material without permission of the copyright owner is illegal and doing so can result in you being prosecuted by the copyright owner. It also makes you a bad person, as you are illegally cheating honest (and some not so honest) people out of income.

Gmail + chat + AIM = crazy delicious
Source: Official Gmail Blog

From the beginning, Google has been committed to open standards and interoperation for instant messaging. So when our friends at AOL agreed to let Gmail users talk to users on their network, we jumped at the chance.

AIM on Gmail Chat Now Live
Source: Mashable!

Gmail and AIM are finally offering unified chat, leveraging the Open AIM framework. After first announcing the plans for the two instant messenger services to be integrated earlier this month, the feature has finally gone live.

AIM leader and veteran activist dies at age 75
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

He fell ill after a trip to Venezuela four weeks ago, said his brother Clyde, and had been on a respirator until Saturday.

Road to Mac OS X Leopard: iChat 4.0
Source: Apple Insider

Apple has taken iChat instant messaging in interesting new directions with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introducing support for video effects and screen sharing. Here's a look at what's new.

How to buy shares and other securities

Successful investing is not just a matter of picking the right investments at the right time but finding the best, and most cost effective way of buying them.

AIM on the iPhone

The following comes from a developer I know on the service he built: TinyBuddy for the iPhone:I just released an update to the TinyBuddy IM web app for the iPhone:There is an option to show buddies sorted by group instead of alphabetically.

Chat with AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and other contacts over Google Talk
Source: Lifehacker

When it was first introduced, Google Talk had a lot of stiff competition in the instant messaging realm.

This area needs news. Click here to seed the vine