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StrapWrap Stores Gadgets on Messenger Bags

As if the canvas messenger bag weren’t trendy enough already, Digital Lifestyle Outfitters unveiled a new pouch on Tuesday designed to mate the bags with the trendiest of gadgets – the iPod and iPhone. The DLO StrapWrap slides onto a messenger bag strap, providing an easily accessible spot to hold digital music players and phones.

Although DLO markets it as a pouch for all gadgets, its 2.5inch width clearly caters to the iPod and iPhone, with room for similar-sized gadgets such as BlackBerrys thanks to its stretchy neoprene construction. It includes a side pocket for earbuds or other small accessories, as well as a hook to latch it onto a turnbuckle, preventing it from sliding down the strap.

Yahoo Offers In-Browser IM Client

Internet giant Yahoo has introduced a beta version of its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application—the catch being that this version is designed to work within a standard Web browser window, rather than relying on a separate software application.

Yahoo Web Messenger is a Flash-based application which offers a subset of the features in the full-blown Yahoo Messenger. Users can initiate and receive instant messages, save and search past messages, add contact, and adjust their online status. However, they can’t change their stealth settings, avatar display, or block list; similarly, the Web version of Yahoo Messenger doesn’t support conferencing, voice chat, file transfer, photo sharing, or Web cams. To use any of those features, users will still need the full-blown Yahoo Messenger.

ICQ Releases Latest Version of IM Client

When it was first on the scene 10 years ago, ICQ was the undisputed king of instant messaging , but now the aging client is overshadowed by many of the competitors it spawned. The company hopes to rekindle its former popularity with the launch of ICQ 6.0 on Wednesday.

Developers tore down ICQ’s old user interface to replace it with one that has been completely revamped. The intent was to keep all communication organized into a single window. Other new features include tabbed browsing of conversations, “quick IMs” that can be sent without a new window, and an improved search of user history and contacts. Two-way SMS will also allow users to send text messages to cell phones from their PCs, and vice versa. Oddly enough, the newest release also includes a soundtrack from the Israeli psy-trance group Infected Mushroom.

Microsoft Ships Messenger 6.0 for Mac OS X

When it comes to the Macintosh, let’s face it: Microsoft is better known for what it doesn’t do rather than what it actually does. Mac versions of its Office productivity applications have been money makers for coming up on two decades, but, gosh, where’s Outlook for Macintosh? Business tools like Access? Heck, even cute consumer services like MSN are missing in action! Internet Explorer? Mothballed. Windows Media Player? Gone. Games? None. Virtual PC? Acquired, digested, and >burp< done.

Yahoo Plugs In Messenger Beta

Not to be outdone by the launch of Microsoft Live Messenger, Yahoo has rolled out a new beta of its competing Yahoo Messenger 8 instant messaging and online collaboration tool. In addition to offering support for voice service, up to 1,000 contacts, and file transfers of up to a gigabyte in size, the Yahoo Messenger beta sports plug-ins which enable users to do things like track eBay auctions and compare contacts.

New Creative Web Cam is Wide Angle Ready

USB 2.0 support means the Webcams can deliver crisp, high-resolution video at up to twice the frame rate of USB 1.1 cameras, while their lenses’ 76-degree field of view is almost half again as wide as most rivals’ 52-degree vision. The high-gloss titanium-finish cameras also combine a precision focus ring with CCD image sensor for more vibrant video and crisper images than other Webcams’ CMOS sensors, even in low-light conditions.

Microsoft Debuts Messenger & Blog Services

From the press release:

New breakthroughs in video, voice and personalization features in MSN Messenger transform the service from being a quick way for people to keep in touch to being an essential life-sharing connection between friends and family. Integration between MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces and other MSN network services, including MSN Search, gives people a more flexible way to connect with others through instant messaging, Web logging (”blogging”), and sharing music lists and photos.

Yahoo! Launches New Messenger

The all-new Yahoo! Messenger gives consumers a more personal and interactive instant messaging (IM) experience by offering leading Yahoo! services like LAUNCHcast Internet radio, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! AddressBook, and Yahoo! Search right in the messaging window, plus expressive features including Avatars and Audibles. Consumers have flocked to this deeper integration and enhanced self-expression with more than 1.5 million people helping the company test the new service since April 26, when a preview version was made available.

Yahoo! Releases New Instant Messenger

From Yahoo’s press release:

Yahoo! Inc. today announced the newest public beta version of its popular Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) service. Leading the instant messaging industry in time spent per user*, Yahoo! Messenger continues to drive innovation in the instant messaging marketplace by introducing unique features and deeper integration with Yahoo! services including LAUNCHcast, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! AddressBook, and Yahoo! Search.

Yahoo! Messenger is the only major instant messaging service to provide consumers with access to pre-programmed or customized radio stations available directly in their instant messaging application, enabling an advanced music connection experience among friends through LAUNCHcast, a leading Internet radio music service. It is also the first major instant messaging service to offer U.S. consumers Avatars, graphical and customizable characters that represent people; and Audibles, expressive, verbal animations.

Microsoft releases Messenger 6.0

The Fast Cash Friday giveaway, which will occur each Friday between July 25 and Aug. 15, is the first of several summer promotions that will build on the consumer excitement and glowing media reviewssince the June 18 public-preview release of Messenger 6.0.

“Fast Cash Friday is our way of celebrating the completion and final release of MSN Messenger 6.0, our most feature-rich, personalized and coolest IM service ever,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN group product manager at Microsoft Corp. “This promotion and others we have planned for later this summer are our way of encouraging people to see for themselves how much fun they can have while IM-ing.”

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