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The AOL Time Warner division upgrades its popular instant messaging service for the first time in a year on the heels of recent chat releases from rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.
Q&A Reuters' head of collaboration services explains why instant messaging's future is more about cooperation than competition.
An exponentially increasing volume of traffic is forcing companies to consider new technologies as they seek to collaborate across time, space and cultural boundaries.
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Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.
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.
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.
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