AOL has won the support of Apple in its fight with Microsoft over instant messaging. Apple has announced it will work with AOL to develop instant messaging products. Apple CEO Steve Jobs endorsed AOL, claiming it had built "the biggest and best...
The instant messaging war between AOL and Microsoft took a bizarre twist last week when Microsoft admitted that one of their programmers posed as an independent consultant in order to discredit AOL's instant messaging technology.
Internet services companies iCast and Tribal Voice have asked the US Federal Communication Commission to force AOL to open up its Instant Messaging (IM) service for competition as a condition of its merger with Time Warner.
US anti-trust officials are looking into AOL's stranglehold on the instant messaging market, as part of the investigation in the Internet firm's proposed $350bn merger with media giant, Time Warner. AOL's competitors in the instant messaging market...
AOL's rivals have not been appeased by recent moves to open up its instant messaging standards. AOL has been working with IBM's Lotus division to make the two systems compatible, but this move will not take them any nearer to messaging...
My real concern, however, is that the talk of corporate policies for instant messaging seems to reinforce the idea that people need detailed instructions on how to lead their working lives. Certainly, there seems to be some logic to the use of...