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  • 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.

  • Why PalTalk is where it's at in chat

    Are you looking for a better way to chat with friends online? Well, give this a try. It's called PalTalk, a mostly free service that, happily, has survived the dot-com meltdown.

  • Instant messaging--better safe than sorry

    If your employees are using public instant messaging programs, it may be time to give IMing a long, hard look.

  • Admins: Take control of IM services

    Instant messaging brings security risks, so it is important that IM software be put through the same selection process as any other piece of desktop software. Take control and minimise the risks.

  • IM archives raise security concerns

    With the addition of archiving features, instant messaging becomes another example of the Net's potential for taking private conversations public. Do you think someone's listening?

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  • 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.

  • Spammers target IM accounts

    Growing incidents of spam attacks on some instant messaging networks are raising vexing questions about the future of one of the fastest-growing applications on the Internet.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Banning IM at work

    Instant messaging has been touted as offering a range of business benefits. But there are also security and HR issues that Australian CIOs and IT managers should carefully consider.

Reviews (37)

  • Get Your IM to Go

    It started as a fun way to chat up your pals. But as developers strive to make instant messaging more attractive to business users, the technology has become increasingly robust, with features geared toward the mobile corporate set.

  • Trillian reconnects to Yahoo

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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