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What Is Instant Messaging?

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Overview Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet. Instant Messaging has become a very popular way of communicating in the rest years. This is mainly due to the Popularity of MSN, Skype Chat, Yahoo Chat and others. This is a quick way to communicate over time zones and with many people at once.

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Publisher	SecPoint	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	IM

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Streamline core business processes with IBM WebSphere MQ

In today's constantly changing business environment, it is essential for applications and business processes to remain connected and integrated. View this interactive PDF and see how IBM WebSphere® MQ provides...

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
infrastructure management

Secure IM Software for Private Real-Time Communications

Bopup IM Suite is a secure real-time communication software designed to provide efficient and private Instant Messaging (IM) over networks of any size. This software is based on a client/server...

Publisher:
B Labs

Tags:
communications software

Step-by-Step Guide to Setup Instant Messaging (IM)

This paper contains a step-by-step manual on how to install Bopup Communication Server version 3.x and get IM clients connected. The installation of the server does not require any specific...

Publisher:
B Labs

Tags:
im

Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging

Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant messaging (IM) programs such as AIM,...

Publisher:
MessageLabs, now part of Symantec

Tags:
network security

Exchange Server 2010: What's New and What's Changed?

Microsoft's Exchange Server 2010 makes substantial strides to provide a robust and reliable approach to the messaging environment. Users will see gains in the speed at which messages flow through...

Publisher:
Global Knowledge

Tags:
high availability

AT&T messaging customers are barred contact with AOL members

But this is not the first time AOL has barred rivals from accessing its install base: Microsoft underwent a similar shutout this summer after it released a version of MSN Messenger that allowed it to communicate with AOL instant messaging customers.

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Applications

Treat your IM like you would your email

or MSN Messenger - usually provide some sort of archive functionality, but unlike email, the company does not have enough power to monitor and save all communications. Although IM started life as a chat tool for teenagers, the technology has some...

Channel:
IM

“You there?” IM users remember - the firewalls have ears

Anyone with internet access can download a public IM system like AIM, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo! Is IM all about idle chit-chat? We use Net Messenger as a tool to allow our people to talk about work and, just as important, as an informal method to chat...

Analysis: What's so exclusive about IM?

Messenger because that's the IM environment we use, for the most part, at CNET News.com, which has a newsroom that spans several geographies and time zones. For instance, when Microsoft launched MSN Messenger in 1999, people could chat with America...

Radioactive: Is mobile IM bad for business?

Spim and viruses conveyed by IMs are not as threatening as those carried by email. For the public IM networks - AOL, MSN, Yahoo! Users have needed to either download mobile clients of the existing public IM systems, like MSN Messenger, or use...

Developers - give a Wave to Google's real-time collaborator

The service, announced on Thursday, allows multiple users to chat and work together in real-time within a window Google is calling a 'wave'. Google views Wave as a new and more effective way of communicating online.

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Applications
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google

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