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Groove updates peer-to-peer software
News Peer-to-peer software specialist Groove Networks on Monday will release a new version of its collaboration and instant messaging software. Ozzie unveiled the first version of the Groove software in Ocotober 2000, combining communication functions...
[April 11, 2002, 9:12]
IBM redefines its Lotus family
News IBM's Lotus Software unit is retooling its family of email, messaging and collaboration software with a big dose of Java. In doing so, Lotus will make its technology -- from email, instant messaging and video conferencing software -- available as...
[January 28, 2002, 14:24]
Microsoft secure IM product expected
News Istanbul, which has been in the beta testing phase for several months, is a new client for Live Communications Server, Microsoft's corporate instant messaging software. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is expected to take the wraps off Istanbul, the...
[February 28, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft offers protocols to its rivals
News Microsoft is to allow rivals to use its own protocols for instant messaging, email and collaboration technologies. According to Information Week, Microsoft spokesman Guy Esnouf said last week that Microsoft has made protocols for instant messaging...
[February 6, 2007, 15:26]
IBM makes WebSphere connection
News The company has launched Collaboration Center, a set of applications designed to make it easier for people to communicate with co-workers via tools such as instant messaging and shared documents. Collaboration Center has instant messaging...
[May 15, 2003, 10:50]
Ipswitch IMail Server Premium 10.02 review
Reviews The software comes with basic anti-spam filtering, while secure instant messaging is included with the Premium version but is otherwise an optional extra starting at €410.85 (£377) for 25 users — full pricing details are on Ipswitch's web site.
[March 10, 2009, 13:00]
IBM unfolds Lotus update
News From 1 October to 31 December, Lotus 6.5 customers with active maintenance agreements can receive a free 20-licence pack for IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and a 20-user licence of WebSphere Portal Express, IBM's collaboration software for small and...
[September 22, 2003, 10:30]
Sun makes new move in corporate IM
News Called the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) Collaborative Business Platform, the product combines email and calendaring with Sun ONE Instant Messaging 6.0, the latest version of its enterprise IM software that includes security, wireless...
[April 7, 2003, 9:33]
Microsoft prepares for Istanbul launch
News Radvision and Jasomi are essentially providing add-ons for Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS), which is software that initially launched as a way for companies to offer secure instant messaging to their employees.
[March 7, 2005, 7:50]
Cisco expands collaboration tools for the enterprise
News The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which itself used to be known as Jabber, provides federation of presence — the ability to know whether a contact is online or offline, and what type of device they are connected on — across...
[November 9, 2009, 7:37]
MS loses messaging exec
News The job switch comes just three weeks after Microsoft unveiled a test version of Greenwich and as rivalry heats up in the market for business-grade instant messaging software and services. News powerhouse Reuters Group said on Thursday that it has...
[March 28, 2003, 8:28]
Oracle's Beehive aims to help project collaboration
News Beehive seeks to take communication software, from email to instant messaging to chat, and the various security rules, databases and storage that are tied to each product on separate servers, and integrate them with few servers on one platform.
[September 23, 2008, 8:39]
IBM loses Notes' Windows focus
News At the Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida, IBM executives said on Monday the company will beef up its Notes software on the Mac to run IBM's Lotus SameTime instant messaging. IBM's Lotus product line encompasses a range of collaboration...
[January 24, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft ups ante in IM battle
News The beta version of the software will include real-time communication features beyond instant messaging, such as presence and multi-party collaboration. Microsoft plans to launch a trial version of its instant messaging software for corporations on...
[March 6, 2003, 7:49]
Oracle revamps software with real-time communication
News launched a corporate messaging application last month, and Microsoft is working on software, code-named Greenwich, designed for internal corporate messaging. But support for instant messaging might be one of them, said IDC analyst Mark Levitt.
[November 6, 2002, 15:46]
AOL, Sun get buddy-buddy
News The interoperability tests come after iPlanet's announcement Tuesday that it would create an instant messaging service for its Portal Server software. The product's Instant Collaboration Pack will support secure instant messaging between employees...
[October 25, 2001, 9:33]
Lotus unfurls greater collaboration
News The foundation of Workplace is an instant-messaging service based on Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Enterprise Edition. We made instant messaging a very integral component of Workplace," Bisconti said. J2EE allowed Lotus to create a compact messaging...
[November 5, 2003, 10:10]
Microsoft to buy Net collaboration firm
News Microsoft's more immediate goal is to "make Web conferencing as easy as e-mail and instant messaging," he added. While you're carrying out an instant-messaging conversation with someone, you can enter into a Web conference where you're sharing data...
[January 22, 2003, 10:33]
IBM delivers an open desktop
News Lotus Sametime software for unified communication, collaboration and instant messaging IBM has developed an open desktop product that supports a range of applications, such as email and instant messaging, without the need to run Microsoft Windows.
[February 12, 2007, 15:39]
Web services get into the Groove
News With the product integration, businesses can treat Groove as an extension to their Microsoft portal or messaging software, Groove representatives said. With version 2.5, Groove is linking its workspaces with Microsoft's Share Point Team Services...
[February 4, 2003, 14:24]
