There was a time when instant messaging (IM) was used mainly by teens plotting shopping mall rendezvous and by late-night AOL chatters seeking anonymity, but IM isn't just for kids anymore. The technology has broadened its reach in the past year and has popped up in the workplace.
Q&A Reuters' head of collaboration services explains why instant messaging's future is more about cooperation than competition.
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America Online is backing away from opening its instant messaging servers to communicate with rival networks.
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Q&A Reuters' head of collaboration services explains why instant messaging's future is more about cooperation than competition.
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Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
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.
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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Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
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The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.
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