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News (48)

• IM: Do IT departments care?

  IT departments are well aware of user's love of instant messenging. But, benefits aside, are you concerned about the security and confidentiality issues in your organisation?

• IM: beyond text messaging

  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.

• ICQ adds file sharing

  The AOL Time Warner division upgrades its popular instant messaging service for the first time in a year on the heels of recent chat releases from rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.

• AIM, ICQ to interoperate

  America Online says it will allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the company's two popular IM services.

• Work together, IM giants told

  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.

Features and Case Studies (13)

• Administering corporate IM

  Instant messaging is gaining increasing focus in the enterprise. What are some of the issues facing IT managers? ZDNet Australia takes a look at some tips and analysis.

• IM: Do IT departments care?

  IT departments are well aware of user's love of instant messenging. But, benefits aside, are you concerned about the security and confidentiality issues in your organisation?

• Facing the new IM issue

  Though many of the security issues inherent in using IM applications are being solved with new technologies, IT leaders now have to worry about a new headache: interoperability concerns.

• IM: beyond text messaging

  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.

• Study tattles on workplace IM

  Instant messaging is still used mostly for personal chitchat in offices, according to a new survey.

Reviews (29)

• IM invasion: 4 chat apps compared

  We take a look at four top chat apps, all of them free, and weigh the relative merits of each.

• ICQ 4.1

  ICQ, along with Yahoo Messenger, offers the most options for customisation and everyday use at home or in the office.

• Trillian Pro

  Consolidate all of your chat buddies into Trillian Pro 2.012. Perfect for students and office workers alike.

• ICQ goes on a diet

  ICQ Lite strips the fat from the full version, leaving behind just the basics. Will it still satisfy?

• AIM, ICQ to interoperate

  America Online says it will allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the company's two popular IM services.

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