Instant Messaging
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More Asian firms IM to communicate
News Instant messaging emerging as popular collaboration and communication tool among enterprises in Asia-Pacific region, Springboard research finds.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, instant messaging tool, Tencent, Instant messaging, Communications, China, small and medium business, messaging, information technology
Adopt Web 2.0 at your pace
News The new wave of "digital" workers are here, and will take Web 2.0 to the enterprise, so companies have to adopt new management methods, say experts.
Tags: Instant messaging, Web 2.0, Web services, SMB, Security, Messaging, social networking, IM, network, professor
Singapore gets flat-rate mobile IM
News StarHub launches a service to tap user demand for mobile IM, which Gartner says is another application to cross over from the "fixed-line Internet".
Tags: Mobile applications, Instant messaging, Starhub, Mobile, Carrier, Mobile Internet, phone, social networking, IM, network
Gartner: Unified comms is not about saving money
News Bringing voice, email and instant messaging onto a single IP platform is expensive and the business case should be based on productivity and collaboration drivers, the analyst firm says.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, Mobile, Gartner Inc., unified communications, IM, network, customer service, information technology, analyst
Businesses have mixed feelings on IM
News Companies are shying away from adopting instant messaging technology despite seeing the benefits it can have in the workplace.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, Director Of Information Technology, Security, compliance, software, Silicon.com, IM, audit, knowledge
Mozilla storms e-mail chaos with Raindrop
News Raindrop will aggregate multiple online communications media, according to Mozilla, and sift what users want from the less important.
Tags: E-mail clients, Instant messaging, messaging tool, Mozilla Labs, Tool, Video, Messaging, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, e-mail
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
News Lawsuit alleges that two companies used its Live Messenger service to poach users' contacts for spam and to send them to phishing sites.
Tags: Legal, Instant messaging, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Security Team, Microsoft Windows Live, Spam, Attack, general counsel, Seattle
Cisco buys into corporate IM
News Cisco Systems is buying Jabber, an open source corporate instant-messaging platform, to compete more aggressively in unified communications.
Tags: Networking, Instant messaging, Jabber, Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IM, EarthLink Inc., networking company, Google Talk, WebEx Communications Inc.
BlackBerry to get Windows Live apps
News Windows Live Hotmail and Messenger will soon be available on BlackBerry smartphones, Research In Motion and Microsoft have announced.
Tags: BlackBerry, Instant messaging, Web services, Mobile applications, RIM BlackBerry, Mobile, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Live, MSN Hotmail
Microsoft says YouTube blocking was a glitch
News Software maker says third party that handles blocking of Web links made a mistake that led to some addresses being blocked.
Tags: Web sites, Instant messaging, Network security, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., MSN Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video, IM
Cisco ruffles feathers with new collaboration tools
News Networking giant turns up the heat on partner Microsoft as it expands and enhances its suite of collaboration tools.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Microsoft Corp., Business applications, Web 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Video Conferencing, Tool, Video
IT security policies: Why they don't always work
Techguide IT security policies never pleases everyone, and can be nebulous and difficult to get right. Learn from one company's experience of getting its plan to work.
Tags: Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data security, PC security, Security, IT Security, Policy, Michael Kassner, Messaging, IM
Facebook wastes no time putting FriendFeed to work
News Newly acquired start-up has become the face (pun intended) of not just Facebook's further development of real-time streaming technology but also its forays into the open-source community.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Server, Facebook, IM, Python, Web, team, Web 2.0
Turning smartphones into language translators
News More language translation tools becoming available in mobile app stores, enhancing mobility of business travelers in foreign countries, say handset makers.
Tags: Mobile applications, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Tool, Optical Character Recognition, software tool, food, marketing
Former Yahoo executive joins AOL
News Brad Garlinghouse's focused strategies lifted Yahoo to No. 1 in e-mail and IM. Now he intends to lead an Internet and mobile communications revival at AOL.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, America Online Inc., e-mail, AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, IM, Flickr, acquisition, Web 2.0
