AOL must move to share IM with rivals
News Dubbed IMUnified, the coalition comprised Microsoft, Yahoo, Excite@Home, AT&T and two now-defunct CMGI companies. The coalition portrayed AOL as a monopolist in IM market share and aggressively asked regulators to force AOL to open its network to...
[July 23, 2001, 15:59]
New MSN Messenger fuels rivalry against AOL
News The IMUnified coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Yahoo! and Odigo are part of a coalition of AOL competitors that are developing technology to allow their IM services to communicate with each other.
[February 7, 2001, 8:38]
Dial IM from your mobile
News Last year, IMUnified, a coalition of companies that includes Microsoft, Yahoo! British carrier Genie said the instant messenger used by its 5.8 million customers can now interact with people using MSN Messenger -- marking the first widespread...
[November 14, 2001, 16:15]
AIM to buddy up with ICQ
News Earlier this month seven top brokerage firms formally announced a coalition to promote the adoption of standards in the fragmented instant messenger industry. AOL is allowing interoperability with ICQ, which is another way of saying AOL is allowing...
[October 30, 2002, 13:44]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News When they started talking about software that involved a "process description language" that accorded with the standards agreed by the "Workflow Management Coalition" .you think I'm making this up, don't you?
[December 6, 1997, 7:00]
Big guns line up against Microsoft
News The coalition has requested to be allowed to defend the EC's corner on the appeal, an EC spokesman told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com, but because the ECIS missed a vital court date for filing their submission to join the appeal, they will be...
[April 6, 2005, 17:20]
AOL IM may have shot itself in the foot Pt II
News Microsoft has also helped lead IMUnified, a coalition of companies including Yahoo! It is in the realm of anti-competitive behaviour, however, that a decision in 1999 to close AIM to interoperability may return to haunt AOL.
[April 5, 2001, 12:24]
Instant Messaging initiative takes shape without AOL
News A coalition took shape Tuesday to establish a unified Instant Messaging standard which would allow users of various IM solutions to chat together seamlessly. The initiative has given itself till the end of August to develop standards for IM...
[July 25, 2000, 13:52]
Talks on IM harmony falter
News Meanwhile, an independent effort to connect incompatible services this year by a coalition of AOL Time Warner competitors, known as IMUnified, has run into delays. Other members of the coalition have blamed a host of other issues for the delays.
[June 11, 2001, 9:10]
AOL preens ICQ for smiley face-off
News Last year, IMUnified , a coalition of companies that includes Microsoft, Yahoo, AT&T and Excite@Home, made aggressive moves to lobby federal regulators to force AOL to open its IM network as a condition of its merger with Time Warner.
[November 1, 2001, 10:21]
