Im Client
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MySpace, Skype to partner for voice function on IM client

News News Corp. social-networking site is set to announce that voice chat on its instant-messaging client will be powered by eBay's Skype.

Thursday, October 18 2007 09:51 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony

MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

News Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.

Thursday, August 21 2003 09:18 AM

Handset is missing link in IMS

News Industry players cite lack of standard-based handsets as an impediment to adoption of IP multimedia subsystem technology.

Tuesday, March 20 2007 07:32 PM

Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Network infrastructure

Yahoo BrowserPlus aims for better surfing

News A project called BrowserPlus is designed to improve some aspects of Web browsing, such as system notifications and drag-and-drop support.

Thursday, May 29 2008 10:38 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Software integration, Software engineering/development, Web Browser, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Firefox, software

Microsoft unwraps Windows Live desktop suite

News Windows Live downloads now provide windows to Web services for e-mail, chatting, blogging, and photos.

Wednesday, November 07 2007 10:53 AM

Tags: E-mail clients, Wireless e-mail devices, E-mail servers, Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Web sites, Mobile/Wireless

Last week in Microsoft

News Microsoft makes peace with RealNetworks and forms an alliance with Yahoo.

Monday, October 17 2005 11:14 AM

Tags: Music devices, MP3 players, Music, Video

Yahoo, Microsoft join IM hands

News Companies to allow interoperability of their instant-messaging clients in a move against America Online and Google.

Thursday, October 13 2005 09:22 AM

Tags: Instant messaging

Adware's second act

News The controversial companies are trying to make nice with consumers. But in the process, they're suffering self-inflicted wounds.

Wednesday, July 13 2005 10:24 AM

Tags: Internet advertising, Marketing communications

Trojan horse targets Skype users

News A variant of the Warezov Trojan horse has again been programmed to spread through the instant-messaging feature in Skype.

Monday, March 26 2007 06:14 AM

Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Network security, Security Management

New IM worm targets Skype users

News Pykse.A, similar to pests that affect instant-messaging applications, targets users with a chat message and a malicious Web link.

Tuesday, April 17 2007 09:47 AM

Tags: Data security, VoIP/IP telephony, Network security, Security Management, VoIP

Microsoft updates corporate IM

News "Istanbul," part of the company's Live Communications Server 2005, weaves in features commonly found in Outlook.

Wednesday, October 20 2004 10:21 AM

Tags: Business applications

Mozilla may develop instant-messaging software

News The open-source organization may add instant-messaging software to its stable of open-source applications .

Wednesday, February 20 2008 10:17 AM

Tags: Instant messaging

Experts downplay IM spam threat

News Spam aimed at instant messengers is on the rise, but as corporations adopt IM, how big a threat will unsolicited messages prove to be?

Friday, April 02 2004 10:03 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing, Instant messaging

Reuters to link with MSN

News Reuters is expected to announce a deal to link its instant messaging service with Microsoft's MSN Messenger, according to a source close to the companies.

Tuesday, September 30 2003 09:20 AM