Say goodbye to Microsoft’s MSN Web Messenger
It’s time to say goodbye to Microsoft’s MSN Web messenger and welcome the new IM in Windows Live Hotmail! The new web-based IM is now available worldwide aiming to provide easier access to communication even while checking emails on Hotmail.

IMVU is a new way to hang out and have fun with your friends online!
Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your buddies from Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, GaduGadu, Jabber and Twitter, and social networks including Facebook and MySpace. One login, one contact list, all accounts.
Getting bored? Really? No more!
Reliance Mobile and Research in Motion (RIM) have introduced into the Indian market an affordable plan called the “E-Lite plan for Blackberry” for smartphone users. The plan allows Reliance to reach out to a wider market by providing affordable and high quality services to consumers, at the same time allowing consumers to stay connected through email and instant messaging on their smartphones while on the move.
Good news for over 3.2 million Indyarocks users… now Indyarocks users can chat with others spread across different IM platforms, from any computer! All they need is a web browser and an Internet connection.
Google is now giving developers an early preview of Google “Wave”, encouraging them to ride into the future of emails, opening inboxes to richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, social network feeds, and more.
Whenever you go online, how much time do you spend to check all of your emails accounts, browse through updates on your social network accounts and then login to your favorite IMs? Well, you can do away with all these mundane steps just by using the Digsby application.
In a desperate attempt to attract new users, social networking site- hi5 is now adding an instant messaging service. Currently, hi5 has almost 60 million users – which is not a bad sized audience, but way less if you compare it with other social networks such as - MySpace and Facebook, with 125.7 million and 294.7 million unique visitors respectively.