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References discovered in the underlying code of Apple's iOS mobile operating system suggest that some cross-platform features of Mac OS X iChat could make their way to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Though the new Mac Messages application with cross-platform support for iOS will be a major feature of the forthcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, users can get their hands on an early beta immediately.

Digging through the bowels of iOS 5.0.1, developer John Heaton found something neat: some code strings that strongly hint iChat functionality will be coming to iOS sometime more or less ...

Whether the holidays have renewed your commitment to keep in touch with distant family or kept you busy finalizing plans for the office party, ’tis the season for using iChat AV. And with version 3.0, ...

According a series of code strings found by MacRumors in the current version of iChat for OS X Lion, Apple may be building support for the new messaging system first announced at WWDC for iOS 5 ...

Apple warned in a recent Support Note that after June 30, Macs running a number of older versions of OS X won't be able to use their mac.com and me.com addresses as AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) IDs to ...

A number of users have reported slow iChat operation after installing Mac OS X 10.3.8. MacFixIt reader Peter now reports that deleting a specific preference file from the ~/Library/Preferences ...

Lion’s version of iChat is the best implementation of OS X’s built-in chat client to date. But it still lacks the features of third-party instant messaging clients. Apple first offered iChat in 2002, ...

Apple has started fixing security holes exposed during January's MoAB (Month of Apple Bugs) project. A software update from Cupertino today provides cover for a pair of flaws in iChat and a code ...

Apple’s latest preview of OS X 10.5 had a little bonus over the usual glitch fix. Inside iChat was a new preference pane, called Answering, a feature that lets you record a video away message with ...