‘While email remains the dominant form of electronic communications, its status is under attack by the use of instant messaging and the emergence of new communications technology, a research firm said Thursday.
Email continues to dominate in most workplaces and homes, but is losing to instant messaging among teens and young adults and within certain fast-paced […]
‘Users of Skype and most of the popular instant messaging programs should soon all be able to talk to each thanks to new software coming soon from Santa Cruz Networks.
A new plug-in from Santa Cruz Networks released Thursday lets Skype and Google Talk customers make voice and video calls to each other, the company said.
Early […]
‘Instant messaging security firm, IMlogic released a warning on Monday, regarding a new type of malicious IM bot that can pose as a human being, and send messages.
The threat, called IM.Myspace04.AIM infects a user’s computer, then starts sending messages to people on their AIM contacts list.’
Read more at IMlogic Spots Interactive Instant Messaging Worm
Trusted Reviews have a preview of the new Windows Live Messenger and writes - ‘Beta testing has begun on the successor to the uber popular MSN Messenger, so what can we expect from ‘Windows Live Messenger’?
Well, for a start Microsoft is promising not to remove any of the favourite features of the current programme such […]
‘For the longest time, worms circulating over instant messaging networks like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo!, MSN and ICQ were considered more childish than harmful, threats that for the most part simply spread themselves to everyone in a victim’s buddy list.
As evidenced by a recent spate of particularly nasty IM worms, however, those days are […]
‘A few years ago, a technology startup’s CEO was mortified to discover that thousands of his confidential instant messages had been posted on the internet. His messages were an enormous embarrassment for his company and its business partners, and the CEO even received death threats.
Though IM has many advantages, its growing use in the workplace […]
‘Google and America Online has expanded their search and advertising alliance to include video and instant messaging, shutting out Microsoft, which had fought hard for a deal with Time Warner’s AOL unit.
America Online said Google had agreed to invest US$1 billion to take a 5 per cent stake in AOL, as part of an enhanced […]
‘A new Christmas-themed worm attack is underway, delivering an offensive rootkit payload over the AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging networks.
The worm, identified as IM.GiftCom.All, was discovered by researchers at IMLogic Inc.’s Threat Center spreading via IM and attempting to trick users into clicking on a malicious URL.
The link lures the target […]
‘Google is helping to extend an open instant messaging protocol so that instant message applications based on it will have a standard method for multimedia communications.
Google is contributing to multimedia extensions to the open Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that will enable XMPP-based instant messaging applications to conduct sessions involving voice and video.’
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‘Google has released a set of components called Libjingle, which will allow third party applications to interoperate with Google Talk’s peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.’
Read more at What Libjingle means for Google Talk | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband