A small Australian security software developer has found itself a niche in the instant messaging market dominated by big-guns Yahoo, MSN and AOL, encrypting a product for corporate use.
Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner are quietly working on advanced instant messaging software for corporate customers, a market segment dominated by Microsoft and IBM.
Web 2.0 presents a barely understood risk to companies embracing social networking and instant messaging technology as business tools and could force a change in corporate IT security.
Microsoft is dipping its toe a little further into the world of telephony.
Microsoft Australia is poised to announce pricing for its corporate instant messaging product, Live Communications Server 2003, and has assured ZDNet Australia the product will ship by the end of September.
Is securify a real word? Of course not. It is a term I first heard during a press conference when global services firm EDS was announcing its Agility Alliance in Sydney last March.
Microsoft Australia is poised to announce pricing for its corporate instant messaging product, Live Communications Server 2003, and has assured ZDNet Australia the product will ship by the end of September.
Despite nagging concerns about its security, instant messaging applications are now mature enough for corporate use if Australian companies change their perception of the platform, says a senior Gartner analyst.
Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.
Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.
Anti-virus experts have called for more staff training on the perils of using instant messaging, and claim that like e-mail, users should know the dos and don'ts before being allowed to run it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are a swag-load of instant messaging applications available these days -- we run eight of them through the wringer, to save you the trouble.
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