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  • Yahoo, MSN encrypt 'community' traffic

    Before Microsoft and Yahoo finally made their respective instant messaging platforms compatible, they took numerous steps to improve the overall level of security for the combined 350 million user community.

  • Microsoft, Yahoo connect IM services

    Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.

  • Spim, splog on the rise

    Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

  • Commbank attacked by instant phishers

    Commonwealth Bank customers have been targeted by phishers in a scam that combines a clever social engineering lure sent over instant messaging application ICQ.

  • Gartner: tread carefully as IM doors swing open

    Analyst group Gartner has warned its customers to take extra security precautions as companies such as IBM and Microsoft begin allowing federated access to both corporate and public instant messaging services.

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  • Spim, splog on the rise

    Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

  • 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.

  • Study tattles on workplace IM

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

  • Analysis: Enterprise IM a tough sell

    Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.

  • Collaboration: Real time, real value?

    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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  • Adium X 1.0.5

    Given all the great consumer-facing open source software available, I figured I'd try to evaluate and write reviews on those I use most often. Open source long ago stopped being about developers for other developers. Here's proof.

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger with Voice

    Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.

  • 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.

  • Yahoo Messenger 6.0

    Yahoo Messenger, along with ICQ, offers the most options for customisation and everyday use at home or in the office.

  • MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

    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.

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