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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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    Yahoo sets its IM sights on corporates.

  • 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.

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    Flaws in the server used to sign up for AOL's Instant Messenger give hackers a way to steal other users' names. But you can protect yourself.

  • 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.

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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.

  • 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.

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  • AT&T follows Trillian's lead

    AT&T have brought out a chat program called IM Anywhere, which allows you to organise multiple messaging services into one account.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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