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  • Instant messaging for business

    The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?

  • Portals: opening new doors to business

    If they're done right, portals can provide financial returns and less tangible benefits. How can you get the best results and how do you measure your success?

  • Opening the door to better collaboration

    A new generation of enterprise portals offers a way to collabrate and interact, but getting workers to give up e-mail may be their biggest challenge.

  • Seven turns to Blue for secure Yahoo Messenger

    Seven Network has increased visibility of instant messaging (IM) and closed potential IM-related security holes after a corporate directive forced the IT team to develop a more disciplined approach to managing the largely unregulated technology.

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    The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?

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    Microsoft has added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging software in a branding move intended to heighten the product's appeal to potential business buyers.

  • 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.

  • Microsoft to launch corporate IM

    Microsoft is expected to unveil a new instant messaging service aimed at corporate customers, jump-starting belated efforts by the software giant to tap a fast-growing, new market for the hugely popular technology.

  • Yahoo pushes enterprise IM

    The Web portal begins a campaign targeting IT managers who have banned its product at work.

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