News (158)

  • Yahoo targets business chat

    Yahoo sets its IM sights on corporates.

  • Embedded chat: Controlling IM risks?

    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.

  • Microsoft livens up instant messaging

    The joint venture in Australia between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd, ninemsn, said today it had publicly launched Windows Live Messenger, a next-generation instant messaging program that automatically updates contact information and lets people share files by simply dragging and dropping them onto a contact list.

  • ICQ offers video chat

    America Online's ICQ instant messaging software now supports video chat, one of the first tangible results of the ICQ unit's recently launched developer program.

  • Drinking at the virtual water cooler

    IM offers co-workers more efficient ways to work--and gossip.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (35)

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (beta)

    Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.

  • Embedded chat: Controlling IM risks?

    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.

  • IM: From fad to big business and beyond

    Instant Messaging is a phenomenon which evolved from kids chatting to corporate execs dealing with members of the board. But where to now?

  • 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.

  • The slow evolution of instant messaging

    Q&A Reuters' head of collaboration services explains why instant messaging's future is more about cooperation than competition.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (55)

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (beta)

    Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.

  • 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.

  • MSN Messenger 6.2

    Intrusive registration process and fee-based add-ons keep us from warming up to this instant messenger.

  • First Take: Google Talk

    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.

  • Instant messaging--better safe than sorry

    If your employees are using public instant messaging programs, Steven Vaughan-Nichols says to stop them right now. Your network's wide open to security breaches.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "chat"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
chat


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 12 aim
  2. Popularity: 4 antivirus
  3. Popularity: 27 aol
  4. Popularity: 11 apple
  5. Popularity: 10 business
  6. Popularity: 5 email
  7. Popularity: 17 european union
  8. Popularity: 10 google
  9. Popularity: 4 hacker
  10. Popularity: 5 hu
  11. Popularity: 5 ibm
  12. Popularity: 16 icq
  13. Popularity: 68 im
  14. Popularity: 13 instant messenger
  15. Popularity: 5 instant messengers
  16. Popularity: 14 internet
  17. Popularity: 4 interoperability
  18. Popularity: 4 ip
  19. Popularity: 4 jaguar
  20. Popularity: 4 jim
  21. Popularity: 5 lotus
  22. Popularity: 9 mac
  23. Popularity: 4 macintosh
  24. Popularity: 15 messaging
  25. Popularity: 24 messenger
  26. Popularity: 4 mobile
  27. Popularity: 7 mozilla
  28. Popularity: 25 msn
  29. Popularity: 4 netscape
  30. Popularity: 6 office
  31. Popularity: 4 opera
  32. Popularity: 4 operating system
  33. Popularity: 5 os
  34. Popularity: 6 os x
  35. Popularity: 4 p2p
  36. Popularity: 6 privacy
  37. Popularity: 23 security
  38. Popularity: 3 server
  39. Popularity: 6 skype
  40. Popularity: 5 spam
  41. Popularity: 8 t&b
  42. Popularity: 6 technology
  43. Popularity: 13 trillian
  44. Popularity: 10 virus
  45. Popularity: 4 viruses
  46. Popularity: 7 voip
  47. Popularity: 5 web
  48. Popularity: 8 worm
  49. Popularity: 31 yahoo
  50. Popularity: 21 yim
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Liam Tung IE patch: Microsoft's eight days of hell
    It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
  • Array Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over
    Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
  • Array Gutless studios have the wrong target
    I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured