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How do you use IM?
Do you consider the people you communicate with via IM to be on a level different from the ones who communicate with you via regular e-mail? by Toni Bowers
Tags: IM, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2008-07-10
If your users must IM, at least spare them from using adware
IM clients from the biggies--AOL, Yahoo, MSN and so on--are full of annoying advertising. Spare your users from the sales pitch and put the focus back on communication by providing alternative client software. William Jones looks at Adium and Pidgin. by William Jones
Tags: Adware, Advertisement, Open Source, IM, Jabber, Pidgin, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, William Jones
Blog posts 2008-07-03
Top Instant Messaging applications in the enterprise
Palo Alto Networks, a company specializing in enterprise network products, summarized application traffic assessments for 20 large organizations -- representing the behavior of over 350,000 users, and came to some interesting conclusions. It appears that enterprises have largely given up on controlling the use of IM, and existing policies, if...
Tags: IM, Enterprise Network, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-05-07
Beware the unmanaged risk of e-mail and IM
According to a recent survey, 65 percent of companies lack e-mail retention policies. Only 54 percent of the corporations surveyed conduct any kind of formal e-mail policy training. One in five U.S. companies has had employee e-mail subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation. ...
Tags: Lawsuit, IM, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Internet, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2008-04-25
IBM predicts demise of traditional offices
During his VoiceCon Orlando 2008 keynote, Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software, predicted five future trends that IBM believes "reshape the way businesses and workers communicate and collaborate." Considering IBM said earlier this month it will invest $1 billion over the...
Tags: Nemertes Research, IBM Corp., Instant Messaging, Productivity, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Bill Detwiler
Blog posts 2008-03-31
Unified communications terminology cheat sheet
If your organization is considering implementing a unified communications solution, you may feel a bit overwhelmed as you examine the options from different vendors. Understanding the new terminology that has sprung up around the new technologies can sometimes be a struggle.To prepare you to intelligently discuss your...
Tags: VoIP, Phone, Network, Video Conferencing, IM, Unified Communications, IP, E-mail, IP Network, Computer, UC, Instant Messaging, Networking, Telecommunications, Internet, Online Communications, Deb Shinder
Blog posts 2008-02-22
Security threats in a unified world
Amid all the excitement surrounding the unification of our communications technologies, the issue of security sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe some are assuming that the threats are the "same old, same old" that plague those same communications methods in their more stand-alone forms. But it's that and more....
Tags: SIP, VoIP, Attacker, IM, Vulnerability, Unified Communications, Encryption, Attack, UC, E-mail E-mail, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Security, Internet, Online Communications, Emerging Technologies, Deb Shinder
Blog posts 2008-02-15
Presence: What is it, and why do you need it?
A key concept that you'll run across again and again in discussions of unified communications is presence. Most users -- and even many IT pros -- have only a vague idea of what it means. Is presence just another buzzword used to sell UC products, or is...
Tags: SIP, Phone, IM, Presence, Status, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Online Communications, Deb Shinder
Blog posts 2008-01-25
There's less searching for sex on Google China
Each week, I check a report that shows me how many people are viewing my blog posts. Almost every week, the most popular post is one that I wrote back in 2005 with the title, "My ex put naked photos of me on the Web." Seriously? That means that people...
Tags: China, Google Inc., Photograph, China Daily, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Internet, Online Communications, Sonja Thompson
Blog posts 2008-01-04
On the client side: OCS client software and hardware
Microsoft's Office Communications Server OCS 2007 is the cornerstone of the company's unified communications UC strategy. OCS is the successor to Live Communications Server LCS 2005, but what a difference a couple of years can make. Microsoft's ambitions for OCS go well beyond the scope of functions provided by LCS,...
Tags: Netscape Communicator, Phone, Device, Mobile, IP Phone, IM, Unified Communications, Client Software, Client, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Computer, OCS, Office Communicator 2007 Office Communicator 2007, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail Clients, Microsoft Office, Internet, Online Communications, Software, Office Suites, Deb Shinder
Blog posts 2007-12-14
JetBlue, Yahoo, and RIM to take e-mail and IM to new highs
JetBlue Airways, in partnership with Yahoo and Research in Motion, will debut an on-board wireless network that lets passengers access e-mail and instant messaging during flights. An excerpt from Associated Press: The JetBlue system is scheduled to make its debut Tuesday on Flight 641 from New...
Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., IM, Yahoo! Inc., JetBlue Airways Corp., E-mail, Wireless LANs, Instant Messaging, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-07
Major upgrade planned for Windows Live Messenger
A major upgrade to Windows Live Messenger is in the works. Version 9.0 of the increasingly popular instant messaging application is scheduled for public release at the end of 2008 or early 2009, and selected beta testers have received invites for it just last week. According...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, IM, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-11-26
Application bundling is the SPAM of software
I love the products that the “BIG FOUR” put out but I am sick and tired of their bundling tactics. If this continues, you will lose market share. If I want a search engine toolbar, I will download and install the toolbar. If I want an instant messenger client, I...
Tags: Software, Instant Messenger, Toolbar, Instant Messenger Client, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Steven Warren
Blog posts 2007-11-19
10 tools to help your remote workers stay in touch
If you've got team members in multiple offices or working from home, you probably already use a fair amount of technology. But are you using the right tools for the right job? The best way to communicate depends on a lot of variables, including the urgency of a message, its...
Tags: Team, Phone, IM, Pro, Video, FTP, Worker, Tool, Voice Activation, MeetingPlace, SharePoint 2007, E-mail, Wiki, Instant Messaging, Team Management, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Internet, Management, Marketing, TechRepublic
Blog posts 2007-11-13
Congress is working to make electronic surveillance more pervasive
A U.S. Senate committee has forwarded a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give the NSA broad powers to conduct electronic surveillance, particularly with regards to electronic mail and instant message traffic. In addition, the bill would retroactively immunize telecommunications providers who, between 9/11/01 and the date...
Tags: Surveillance, Wired Inc., IM, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, NSA, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Internet, Andy Moon
Blog posts 2007-10-22
Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company?
Bill Gates has had a very interesting track record in the prediction business over the past three decades, and now he's making a new prediction: The business phone as we know it will be replaced by software that will unleash a higher level of collaboration and productivity. ...
Tags: Software, Netscape Communicator, Phone, Partnership, Platform, IM, Microsoft Office, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Photo Gallery, Unified Communications Platform, Unified Communication, Business Structures, Telephony, Tools & Techniques, Instant Messaging, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Networking, Management, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2007-10-21
New zero-day flaws found in AOL, Yahoo IM
New zero-day vulnerabilities have been found in both AOL and Yahoo instant messaging products. According to ZDNet Blogs, this is the third major security hiccup found in Yahoo Messenger over the last few months. An exploit code has been released for the hole in Yahoo Messenger,...
Tags: Yahoo IM, America Online Inc., IM, Yahoo! Inc., Zero-day Bug, Instant Messaging, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-09-19
Work with end users -- not against them -- to improve security
In his recent blog post, "The six consumer technologies that are destroying traditional IT," Jason Hiner comments on consumer technologies that are sneaking into the workplace and causing problems for some IT departments' attempts to maintain network and information security. He also makes the point that this isn't just a problem with end...
Tags: Security, Information Technology, IM, Problem, Policy, Instant-messaging Technology, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Chad Perrin
Blog posts 2007-09-18
Integrate VoIP with your e-mail address -- for free
Unified communications is all the rage, and it's all about combining different types of messaging, such as e-mail and voice. Now there's a free service that does just that -- without the expense and hassle of installing server-side software.Yoomba, which just launched a public beta earlier this month, lets you...
Tags: VoIP, Telephony, Instant Messaging, E-mail
Blog posts 2007-07-27
The increasing use of IM in the office
According to the latest industry report from Gartner, 95% of all corporate employees will be using instant messaging IM as a primary form of communication by the year 2013. Sales of enterprise-class IM systems, on the other hand, will surge from the current $267 million in 2005...
Tags: IM, Gartner Inc., Messaging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-07-05


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