IM Gets Perfect Forward Security
News The result, dubbed off-the-record (OTR) messaging by security researchers Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov, is a plug-in for the Gaim open source instant-messaging client that enables encrypted messages that do not leave a key that could be used to...
[February 15, 2005, 8:20]
AOL Looks To Video To Boost IM
News America Online is warming up to instant messaging video features that it once dismissed as irrelevant, in the latest sign that the company is playing catch-up to rivals in a key communications technology that it pioneered.
[April 15, 2003, 13:42]
Green Light For AOL-Time Warner Merger
News Although there had been speculation that the FCC would not impose any restrictions, its decision bolsters the FTC's earlier decision on Net cable access and addresses concerns over instant messaging. Critics of the acquisition, including business...
[January 12, 2001, 7:58]
Google Integrates Chat With Mail
News In the United States, Gmail is the fourth most popular Web-based email program, and Google Talk is ranked seventh among instant messaging programs, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Online's AIM Triton offers integrated email, instant messaging, SMS...
[February 7, 2006, 8:00]
It's Techno Time At Toy Fair 2000
News Some of the electronic messaging devices are strikingly similar to adult "toys". At the Toy Fair 2000, Mattel Interactive will show off its Computer Sound Morpher and CD-ROM, which lets kids record voices and morph them on a computer.
[February 14, 2000, 9:24]
Netintelligence Home Broadband Edition
Downloads Netintelligence gives you the ability to filter and customize web access for your children, record all instant messaging conversations, set and monitor time spent on your computers, both on and off line and prevent harmful viruses - in one easy to...
[September 15, 2005, 17:31]
Winamp's Creator Turns His Back On AOL
News In May 2003, Frankel was forced to pull a software program called Waste, which let users set up private networks equipped with peer-to-peer file sharing and instant messaging. The software sparked an immediate response from AOL executives who were...
[January 27, 2004, 9:35]
Instant Messaging - Better Safe Than Sorry
News Are the people in your company using AIM, MSN Messenger, or other instant messaging programs to help get their work done? Related services, such as voice messaging and file transfer, are also potential security holes.
[October 4, 2001, 10:57]
VoIP Regulation Hangs In Balance
News Others use free services such as Skype, Free World Dial-Up and SIPphone, or voice capabilities in instant-messaging services such as Yahoo IM -- although those products only work between computers and cannot connect to ordinary telephones.
[October 27, 2003, 13:55]
Microsoft Prepares To Kill Windows Messenger
News The Messenger service is a data-exchange mechanism for networked computers that shouldn't be confused with Microsoft's instant-messaging software. Switching Messenger off "is the current plan of record," said Neil Charney, director of product...
[October 29, 2003, 7:30]
Intel Promotes Mobile Location Services
News By contrast, kids - conversant in messaging - didn't find it that interesting. Messaging, in fact, is apparently leading to the demise of doorbells in Europe, according to a new study from Georgia Tech.
[July 13, 2005, 9:15]
Securing Enterprise Communications
News Email and other messaging technologies have, in many cases, replaced both the telephone and postal mail for business communications - and with good reason. The second option is to use a messaging security service to handle your email.
[October 20, 2005, 17:50]
Another File-swapping Site To Fall Silent
News Deep said the RIAA would be hard-pressed to do that in a way that didn't block legal uses of the system, such as instant messaging. The judge gave record industry attorneys five days to suggest language for a preliminary injunction that would block...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Microsoft And HP To Unveil A PC Console
News Developed with Hewlett-Packard, the new "Athens" prototype is intended to be the hub for communications and collaboration built around voice, video and text messaging capabilities. Consumers also can use it to watch and record TV programs using a...
[May 2, 2003, 14:33]
Mobile Firms Urge Caution On 3G
News The success of text messaging, meanwhile, which has generated significant revenues for operators, was largely unexpected. In general, the mobile industry does not have a great track record of delivering compelling applications, or of accurately...
[June 19, 2002, 15:00]
Microsoft Patents Widely Used IM Feature
News Microsoft has won a patent for an instant-messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message. This means that if someone tries to invalidate the Microsoft patent, they would try to find examples of...
[October 8, 2003, 8:34]
The Schmoozer: UK Military Declares War On Anna K
News The new government Net security force, the National High Tech Crime Unit (see last week's Schmoozer), couldn't make it to the UK's top security conference this week, despite such pressing issues as wireless viruses, employers listening in on your...
[April 27, 2001, 14:29]
Sun's Java Rules Shape Future Of Phones
News By 2004, Lorain said, Java phones will get a total of nine new functions, including instant messaging and the ability to tap into credit card or bank accounts. Artists received a record amount of royalties, $71m, or about £42m, last year from the...
[January 31, 2003, 7:45]
MSN Explorer Is No Knockout Blow
News Some of MSN Explorer's new features include access to Microsoft's Hotmail, an instant messaging service and a Windows Media Player. Clearly they have the resources and the track record to have a dramatic impact.
[September 1, 2000, 9:07]
Leader: Progress In NT Alliances?
News Those sales reps have an interesting new weapon in Sun's Project Cascade, a set of services that will let Sun's servers run NT where it will be most useful - application servers, messaging and so on. And talk to Sun folks off the record and they'll...
[September 21, 1998, 6:06]
