As part of their major truce announced Thursday, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft pledged to discuss making their instant messenger products talk to each other.
America Online's ICQ has joined the social-networking craze.
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A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer.
Security attacks over instant-messaging networks became more prevalent in 2005, according to a new study.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Life may be like a box of chocolates -- but telecoms right now is gearing up to be a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as service providers seek increasingly novel ways to blend their offerings.
Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.
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Off-the-record instant messaging enables chatters to confirm identity of other person, leaves no trace of conversation.
Malicious attacks now come cloaked in messages that appear to have been sent by a known instant messaging contact -- even more reason to be wary.
Microsoft Australia is poised to announce pricing for its corporate instant messaging product, Live Communications Server 2003, and has assured ZDNet Australia the product will ship by the end of September.
Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.
America Online, MSN and Yahoo may lose their grip on the instant messaging market, as corporate IT managers wake up to the potential of IM.
The Web portal is set to announce an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software.
Microsoft has added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging software in a branding move intended to heighten the product's appeal to potential business buyers.
Cerulean Studios has released a software patch that will let a version of its Trillian instant-messaging service communicate with Yahoo Messenger, according to its co-founder.
Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.
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.
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