AOL Launches Next Generation Live Video Messaging
February 16, 2004
Dulles, VA - America Online has launched an upgrade to its Instant Messenger (AIM) service with new features including live video compatible with Apple's popular iChat AV video conferencing application, account linking and online games.
Designed to give users a more expressive instant messaging experience, AIM's new version offers a number of new advanced instant messaging capabilities that extend the vibrant social interaction that takes place within the AIM community, the company reports. For the first time, users will have the ability to conduct live video instant messaging conversations, link up and manage multiple AIM screen names from the same session, and invite their buddies to play online games through their instant messaging connection.
The new live video instant messaging feature in AIM 5.5 is fully compatible with iChat AV 2.1, Apple's breakthrough video conferencing technology. Now AOL users from a PC can tap into the worldwide community of iChat AV users on Macs. iChat AV 2.1, the latest version of iChat AV is currently available from Apple .
The AIM service is at the center of one of the largest and most active communities online. Touched by more than 50 million active users* each month and supported by a network infrastructure that handles nearly two billion instant messages each day, the AOL Instant Messenger network makes it possible for people from around the world to communicate with each other via text, audio or video all in real time, and to engage in other shared activities, such as casual gaming.
Video functionality is free and available to users using the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. iChat AV 2.1 Public Beta is now available for free download.
For more information, visit
www.aim.com
or
www.apple.com/ichat
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