New Version for ICQ 5 - Featuring ‘Push and Talk’ Walkey Talkey Option
Trying to earn back some of it’s lost market share the AOL owned ICQ has a vew version (ICQ 5 5.02).
Some of the main changes to the program:
- Push to Talk - This feature(VoIP based) allows the user to transmit a voice message at the push of a button to one user or to a whole group, upon the persons’ approval. It is somewhat similar to some of the features that so far were offered by the cellular companies alone.
- The Extra platform - Feature advanced customization, improved emoticons and games, as seen on AOL.
- SMS - The SMS feature was improved. It now allows one to send the same message to several recipients. It also allows one to forward all received IM messages to any supported cellular phone as a SMS message.
- Firewall improvements - For those who know ICQ you probably know that it was lacking the support for the different firewalls and in a lot of times will block certain options. The new version fixed this problem.
Note: The only problem I found was that the problem attemps to add it’s own toolbar to the different browsers. To block this from happening for those who already use a different toolbar, it has to be done during the installation.
All in all, it seems pretty good, I am excited, try it out: ICQ 5 | Download
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