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.
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...
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...
Sanjesh Sharma, assistant principal at Djanogly Academy, is excited by the phenomenon. Digital communications have removed information barriers and our youngsters either know everything, or know how to find out everything.
They are very much used to this internet-connected, wireless world. I guess what will happen is that consumers will vote with their wallets. The people coming out of university today have lived in an instant messaging, text message-based, iPod-type...