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...
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.
Orange has spelled out its vision for the future of instant messaging, setting up its own system to rival AOL, Yahoo! The instant messaging space is particularly fraught, with the three market leaders unable to agree on a way of making their...
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...
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...
Reuters has today launched its own instant messaging service, aimed at banks and financial institutions worldwide. Developed in association with Microsoft, Reuters Messaging offers a secure IM service to the hundreds of thousands of bankers...