Speedlinking: Pidgin, GTalk, Windows Live Hotmail
Posted by absorbation on Wed 02 May 2007 (20:05 GMT)
Just a quick post here summing up 3 small pieces of news.

Pidgin beta released
The long awaited Gaim 2.0 beta 7 (now known as Pidgin) has been released to the public. This is hopefully going to be the last public beta before the official release. It is the first we have seen of the newly re-named software. Click here to view the announcement, or click here to download Pidgin.

Video coming to Google Talk?

According to an article at PCWorld, 'Google Inc. has bought video conferencing software from Marratech AB', 'The client software runs on Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4, or versions of Linux'. Could this provide a cross-platform video conferencing boost to gTalk?

Read more on the subject here, here and here.

Windows Live Hotmail finally ready (for US and UK)?
LiveSide have reported about an email certain US testers recently received containing details of a few rewards for beta testers to thank them for testing Windows Live Hotmail. Could this finally mean Windows Live Hotmail is ready for release in the main worldwide markets? (PS from the andyman: UK users might want to keep an eye on this site)
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