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