Yahoo has issued security patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software.
In announcing it would shutter free chat rooms, Microsoft highlighted problems with spammers and pornographers. But analysts said there may be benefits for the software giant, which is trying to shunt customers to paid services across its network.
Instant messaging is often characterised as a frivolous application used mostly by home users. But its business use has increased dramatically in the past year, thanks to a plethora of IM features beyond text messaging.
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Yahoo has issued security patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software.
Instant messaging is often characterised as a frivolous application used mostly by home users. But its business use has increased dramatically in the past year, thanks to a plethora of IM features beyond text messaging.
Instant messaging offers easy communication but IM can put your network at risk. Here's how to address those risks by embedding a simple chat applet into your intranet.
Instant Messaging is a phenomenon which evolved from kids chatting to corporate execs dealing with members of the board. But where to now?
With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
Intrusive registration process and fee-based add-ons keep us from warming up to this instant messenger.
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Yahoo Messenger, along with ICQ, offers the most options for customisation and everyday use at home or in the office.
Given all the great consumer-facing open source software available, I figured I'd try to evaluate and write reviews on those I use most often. Open source long ago stopped being about developers for other developers. Here's proof.
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