738:. This change adds new features such as the ability to send IMs directly from the client's contact list. ICQ has recently started forcing users of v5.1 to upgrade to version 6 (and XP). Those who do not upgrade will find their older version of ICQ does not start up. Although the upgrade to version 6 should be seen as a positive thing, some users may find that useful features such as sending multiple files at one time is no longer supported in the new version. At the beginning of July 2008, a network upgrade forced users to stop using ICQ 5.1 – applications that identified themselves as ICQ 5, such as
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706:(released on Monday, February 7, 2005), were upgrades on ICQ Lite. One addition was Xtraz, which offers games and features intended to appeal to younger users of the Internet. ICQ Lite was originally an idea to offer the lighter users of instant messaging an alternative client which was a smaller download and less resource-hungry for relatively slow computers.
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The ICQ client application and service were initially released in
November 1996, freely available to download. The business did not have traditional marketing and relied mostly on word-of-mouth advertising instead, with customers telling their friends about it, who then informed their friends, and so
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users were able to add each other to their contact list without the need for any external clients. (The AIM service has since been discontinued.) As a response to UIN theft or sale of attractive UINs, ICQ started to store email addresses previously associated with a UIN. As such UINs that are stolen
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changed its name to Mail.Ru Group. Since the acquisition, Mail.ru has invested in turning ICQ from a desktop client to a mobile messaging system. As of 2013, around half of ICQ's users were using its mobile apps, and in 2014, the number of users began growing for the first time since the purchase.
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After the purchase, the product was initially managed by Ariel
Yarnitsky and Avi Shechter. ICQ's management changed at the end of 2003. Under the leadership of the new CEO, Orey Gilliam, who also assumed the responsibility for all of AOL's messaging business in 2007, ICQ resumed its growth; it was
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article published in May 2018, Russian intelligence agencies had access to online reading of ICQ users' correspondence during crime investigations. The article examined 34 sentences of
Russian courts, during the investigation of which the evidence of the defendants' guilt was obtained by reading
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Group chats with up to 25 thousand participants at the same time, which any user could create. Users could hide their phone number from other participants, see which group members have read a message, and switched off notifications for messages from specific group
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Russian-speaking ICQ users: "ICQ осуществляет поддержку только авторизированных версий программ: ICQ Lite и ICQ 6.5." ("ICQ supports only authorized versions of programs: ICQ Lite and ICQ 6.5.")
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included server-side storage of the contact list. This provided synchronization between multiple computers and enforced obtaining consent before adding UINs to the contact list by preventing clients from modifying the local contact list
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and using a third party client is a violation of ICQ Terms of
Service. Nevertheless, a number of third-party clients have been created by using reverse-engineering and protocol descriptions. These clients include:
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being the most common platform at the time), the concept of a fully centralized service with individual user accounts focused on one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging services like
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on standard installation or with the addition of an official language pack. This has made its adoption difficult with the established user base from Hong Kong and Taiwan where traditional
Chinese is the official
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Private chats: conversations between two users, with history synchronized to the cloud. A user could delete a sent message at any time, and a notification will be shown indicating that the message has been
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to acquire
Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for $ 287 million up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years based on performance levels. In 2002 AOL successfully patented the technology.
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correspondence on a PC or mobile devices. In six of the fourteen cases in which ICQ was involved, the capturing of information occurred before the seizure of the device. Because the rival service
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not only a highly profitable company, but one of AOL's most successful businesses. Eliav Moshe replaced
Gilliam in 2009 and became ICQ's managing director.
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can sometimes be reclaimed. This applies only if (since 1999 onwards) a valid primary email address was entered into the user profile.
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address they associated with their UIN during the initial registration process. Unlike other instant messaging software or
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ICQ не поддерживает используемую вами версию. Скачайте бесплатную авторизованную версию ICQ с официального web-сайта ICQ.
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The version you are using is not supported by ICQ. Download a free authorized ICQ version from ICQ's official website."
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was the last completely advertising-free ICQ version.
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1312:"An artist for the high-tech age"
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1254:"What Ever Happened to ICQ?"
1197:"What Ever Happened to ICQ?"
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19:For other uses, see
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2565:Contact list
2240:HCL Sametime
2146:VK Messenger
2016:IRC Networks
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54:Developer(s)
2540:Backchannel
2428:Thunderbird
1976:Google Meet
1971:Google Chat
1103:Online chat
936:Google Talk
912:proprietary
712:introduced
588:source code
550:Yossi Vardi
521:screen name
360:Proprietary
276:Amazon Fire
261:Symbian S60
170:Objective-C
130:/im-desktop
128:/mail-ru-im
2665:Categories
2580:FirstClass
2451:ChatSecure
2391:Miranda NG
2275:Retroshare
2189:comparison
2066:The Palace
2056:Mattermost
2051:Marco Polo
1834:Retroshare
1793:comparison
1729:2023-06-23
1686:2009-02-04
1637:File Horse
1602:25 January
1558:icqdesktop
1516:2022-04-01
1386:2010-03-31
1345:2020-11-17
1182:2023-07-24
1119:References
1113:Tencent QQ
1046:Symbian OS
1007:Miranda NG
955:, and XMPP
844:Miranda NG
736:AIM Triton
702:and later
610:WhatsApp's
334:Vietnamese
307:Portuguese
281:Palm Pilot
256:Symbian OS
145:Written in
115:Repository
86:1996-11-15
2423:Telepathy
2366:Centericq
2230:Gadu-Gadu
2026:KakaoTalk
1789:Protocols
1560:on GitHub
1511:1357-0978
1316:ISRAEL21c
1294:"icq.com"
1280:pcmag.com
965:Centericq
782:Criticism
765:language.
694:ICQ 2001b
660:In 2002,
657:directly.
650:features.
634:ICQ 99a/b
606:Hong Kong
509:Mirabilis
493:Nicknames
398:Mirabilis
388:(IM) and
310:Ukrainian
162:/
158:/
47:Mirabilis
2640:Web chat
2625:U-Report
2595:Hall.com
2590:Fuze Box
2570:Emoticon
2545:Chat log
2533:See also
2433:Trillian
2413:QIP 2010
2386:Messages
2320:WhatsApp
2300:Telegram
2280:Ricochet
2270:Palringo
2260:Linphone
2225:FaceTime
2205:Baidu Hi
2156:WhatsApp
2136:Trillian
2111:Telegram
2096:Snapchat
2071:Palringo
2006:iMessage
1956:DingTalk
1929:Services
1642:June 30,
1539:cite web
1450:25 April
1427:25 April
1335:Mashable
1258:TechSpot
1201:TechSpot
1137:Archived
1082:See also
1068:Messages
1051:Trillian
874:Telegram
775:ICQ 10.0
750:Facebook
686:ICQ 2002
672:ICQ 2002
654:ICQ 2001
648:Reminder
640:ICQ 2000
616:Shutdown
456:members.
445:deleted.
396:company
203:Platform
2555:Circuit
2550:Chatbot
2517:Defunct
2476:Tkabber
2396:Nimbuzz
2361:BitlBee
2285:Session
2235:GroupMe
2220:Element
2185:Clients
2126:Threema
2076:Session
1996:HipChat
1991:Guilded
1986:GroupMe
1966:Element
1961:Discord
1829:MTProto
1020:ncurses
1011:Windows
987:Java ME
959:BitlBee
896:Clients
746:ICQ 7.0
546:Israeli
532:History
394:Israeli
366:Website
355:License
328:Spanish
325:Turkish
322:Chinese
304:English
301:Russian
221:Windows
216:Android
192:Android
160:Windows
84: (
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2645:Webcam
2481:Xabber
2401:Pidgin
2381:Kopete
2371:eBuddy
2356:Beeper
2315:WeChat
2290:Signal
2255:Jongla
2151:WeChat
2081:Signal
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