News on Instant Messenger apps?

Hi,
I'm wondering if there will/is any form of IM what I could use with my AOL or Hotmail address as this would be a really handy application when that new 3G iphone comes out.
Is there any news/clues that it may be available to download on the apps store?
Thanks,
AJ

There are apps like that developed already. Whether Apple allows them to be sold in the App Store, remains to be seen. The fact that Apple did not profile one of their own at WWDC, makes me think there might not be any. There may be an issue of a process running in the background that Apple will not allow--possibly because of a battery life issue. Turn-by-turn GPS navigation apps will not be allowed to be sold I read. Again, it's probably due to battery life.
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other, how it is setup is, client connects to this
server, the server accepts and creates a new thread
for this client and adds a message listener to this
client handler thread. as and when the server creates
this thread for the client, it puts it in a vector
which is keeping track of every client connected to
this server.ok so far.
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seaches the threads vector to find the appropriate
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