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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.

  • Yahoo targets business chat

    Yahoo sets its IM sights on corporates.

  • 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.

  • Yahoo Web-ifies its chat application

    Yahoo is set to release late Wednesday a new Web-based version of its instant-messaging application that lets people use Yahoo Messenger on any browser and any Internet-connected computer rather than having to download it to a hard drive.

  • Trojan horse targets Skype users

    Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned last week.

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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.

  • Study tattles on workplace IM

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

  • 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.

  • How to stop SPIM abuse

    Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.

  • 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.

Reviews (55)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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