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Apple Releases Public Beta of New Messages App for OS X
www.macrumors.com
Alongside today's OS X Mountain Lion news, Apple released a public beta version of its new Messages app for OS X for existing users. Set to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion, the new Messages app integrates features of iChat and FaceTime and adds compatibility with the iMessages service...
Apple releases Messages beta for Mac, replacing iChat and integrating with iOS
www.appleinsider.com
Though the new Mac Messages application with cross-platform support for iOS will be a major feature of the forthcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, users can get their hands on an early beta immediately....
Apple posts Messages Beta for the Mac on the heels of Mountain Lion announcement
9to5mac.com
Just as we are chewing on the news that Apple is working on Mountain Lion, a major new Mac OS X release, the company published Messages Beta for the Mac, an early taste of what is coming in Mountain Lion. Certain code leaks indicated such an application could be...
∞ Apple releases public beta of Messages, replacing iChat
www.loopinsight.com
I mentioned in my first look of OS X Mountain Lion today that Apple was doing away with its messaging app iChat and replacing it with a new app called Messages. [...]...
This Apple Engineer Nicknamed 'F*ckchop' Got The First Ever Call On A Prototype iPhone And Ignored It Because He Didn't Know The Number (AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
Meet Andy Grignon: An Apple engineer who had an usual title printed on his business card. As you can see in the photo, which he posted to Instagram, he was "F**kchop" at Apple, working on the iPod. Steve Jobs called him a "fuckchop" when Grignon was working on Apple's iChat...
This Apple Engineer Nicknamed 'F*ckchop' Got The First Ever Call On A Prototype iPhone And Ignored It Because He Didn't Know The Number (AAPL)
Next version of OS X to be more iOS-like than ever with Mountain Lion
arstechnica.com
Apple significantly accelerated the upgrade cycle for Mac OS X on Thursday, announcing just seven months after the release of Lion that the next major version of OS X will be available in summer 2012. Dubbed Mountain Lion (we note no mention of a version number, like 10.8), the...
Signs in Mountain Lion point to "retina" display MacBooks sooner than later
arstechnica.com
A new clue found within in the latest developer release of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) suggests that 2012 may bring us the "summer of retina display Macs." A source with access to the latest Mountain Lion preview alerted Ars that double-sized graphics have popped up in some unexpected...
Ex-Rutgers student webcam spy sentenced to 30 days in jail
arstechnica.com
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who was convicted in March of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail by a New Jersey judge. Following Ravi’s actions, which included using a webcam and iChat to remotely watch a few seconds of roommate...
Mountain Lion: Messages replaces iChat, gets public beta
www.computerworld.com
iChat is dead--long live Messages. With Thursday's announcement of Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes the news that iChat is being upgraded and renamed to Messages, with support for the iMessage chat system introduced with iOS 5....
Messages beta ready for download
www.computerworld.com
Messages is now ready for Mac users to test drive. Shortly after announcing its planned Mountain Lion update for OS X on Thursday, Apple released a beta of the revamped version of iChat that will ship with the new operating system this summer....
After Beta, Messages Will Be Exclusive to OS X Mountain Lion
www.macrumors.com
Consomac has discovered that the OS X Lion Messages Beta that was released yesterday will not be a permanent feature for Lion users. Messages is the new iMessage-compatible version of iChat that will be included in OS X Mountain Lion. Apple also released a public beta version for OS...
HipChat to Apple: ‘the new Messages logo looks a little…familiar’
thenextweb.com
With all of the excitement happening surrounding Apple’s surprise release of its latest OS to developers, not everyone is stoked about Mountain Lion’s new features, specifically Messages. One company that’s not-so-pleased about the new Messages app is HipChat, which has an iOS app by the same name for instant messaging...
Here’s a list of things that Mountain Lion Killed today
9to5mac.com
Apple’s merging of iOS with OS X continues today with our first glimpse at 10.8 Mountain Lion, the next major OS release for Macs. Of course in the process of bringing the best of both worlds together, some things win out. In the case of Mountain Lion, several apps...
You Only Need A Few Simple Apps To Get The Best Features Of OS X Mountain Lion (AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
Yesterday, Apple announced the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is scheduled to be available at the end of summer. It's filled with cool new features, but who wants to wait until this summer to get them? This post originally appeared at Lifehacker.Messages Messages is a little...
Apple Files New iChat Trademark while transitioning to "Messages"
www.patentlyapple.com
The US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for "iChat." The new filing updates the underlying International Class foundation for iChat so as to better protect it going forward. Then again, going forward may have a limited time frame. Apple's new "Messages" Beta is now available for...
Online Video Chatting–All the Rich White Girls Are Doing It
www.betabeat.com
"I can't believe you think I like attention!" "Warning to parents," Vator News cried out yesterday, "this is what your teen does online." Exclamation points implied! So what's the terrifying new teen pastime parents should be panicked about? According to Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, teenagers are, get this, using...
Video Chat Coming To The Next iPhone? All Signs Are Pointing To Yes
techcrunch.com
As they do with any major new iPhone OS release, people have been tearing apart the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK from the very second it was available. Almost immediately, someone noticed that bits and pieces of iChat had found their way into the new software. By itself, it didn’t...
Skype Video Coming to Android, Is 2010 the Year of Mobile Video Chat?
www.readwriteweb.com
The fast-growing population of Android users will soon be able to chat face-to-face thanks to a Skype mobile application that will hit the marketplace with video functionality "later this year." As reported on the gadget blog Skatter Tech, Skype representatives have been quoted confirming the release of a carrier-independent app...
Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?
battellemedia.com
I'm writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco. That's not so unusual - anymore - Wifi had been on planes for over a year now, and I've grown accustomed to the service. Why? Well, because my family al so has...
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