Recall if you will, a few weeks back when Skype started cutting off third party services from using it’s API all willy nilly. Things have since died down. But now we have another developer(s) pulling the same stunt. Nimbuzz, a popular multi-account IM app, is removing ICQ support. What’s different from the whole Skype/Nimbuzz story, however, is that instead of improperly used APIs, ICQ is simply looking for some more money. On that note, ICQ wants Nimbuzz...

Beejive users: version 3.5.2 is now live! However, if you want to keep ICQ support, avoid updating for now. Besides new bug fixes, a few new minor features managed to sneak in including new message status indicators for sent messages, Bluetooth support added to Voicenotes, and the inclusion of .WAV files for increased cross-platform compatibility. However, one rather large feature that was removed from the latest update is ICQ. Now before a massive public outcry...

Taking a conversation online in the mobile age was at one time a chore. The services and hardware that we had were crude at best. But over the last 5-6 years, the cellphone, and now smartphones, have come quite a ways. What was once a wasteland is now a land saturated with multi-account chat apps. There are literally dozens of different chap apps on iOS alone, with Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and very soon, Windows Phone 7 all having their own options as well. So how...

Good news for Android users — Tango makes video chatting super easy on your green robot-loving device. The app allows cross-carrier/continent video calls, breaking down barriers. What’s even cooler, however, is that it also allows cross-platform video chatting. You see, their’s a Tango app for iOS as well. If you’re rockin’ an iPhone, find a friend with Android and yak your heart out. Of course, the best part of it for Android users is you...

Last week we highlighted a post from TechCrunch that foreshadowed a Facebook redesign being rolled out following their keynote. Well, the new design didn’t happen. Instead, Facebook talked about “lockdown” — their sudo code word for long hours — and how new features and a redesign would be slowly launched over the coming weeks and months. Apparently their “weeks to months” means “a few days”. I fired up my Facebook a...