Adium vs ICQ

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Adium is a software written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library. It can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, now owned by Time Warner's AOL subsidiary. The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became one of the first Internet-wide instant messaging services.

Adium vs. ICQ :

	Adium	ICQ
Operating system support	Mac OS X	Windows Mobile,BlackBerry
Protocol support	WLM,Y!M,AIM,ICQ,XMPP,IRC IBM Lotus Sametime , Novell GroupWise Messenger,Bonjour,Gadu-Gadu ,QQ, OTR,LAN,Xfire,Skype,MySpaceIM, Facebook , LiveJournal	AIM, ICQ,
Features included	Encryption ,Graphical smileys ,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Themes / skins,Plugin system,Third party add-ons, Scripting,Message Logging	File transfer ,Graphical smileys,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Built-in games, Themes / skins, Plugin system, Third party add-ons, Scripting, Message Logging, Voice messaging,Webcam Support, Offline messaging , Right-to-Left texting