Tribal Voice In New Challenge To AOL
News Joining the fray in an escalating competition, Alta Vista has signed a deal to use Tribal Voice's instant messaging software. Alta Vista joins AT&T's WorldNet and FreeServe in using the Tribal Voice client.
[October 8, 1999, 9:10]
AOL: We'll Block Tribal Voice, Too
News America Online says it will try to block Tribal Voice's upcoming version of its PowWow instant messaging service from connecting with its own Instant Messenger technology -- just as it has gone to war with Microsoft.
[September 8, 1999, 8:50]
Freeserve Signs Tribal Voice For Instant Messaging
News Freeserve said Tuesday it would work with Tribal Voice to offer its own branded instant messaging application to its 1.32 million users. The Freeserve Communicator service will use Tribal Voice's PowWow technology, which is also used by AT&T's...
[September 7, 1999, 13:20]
AOL Blocks ICaster From AIM Program
News America Online (AOL) has now blocked iCast, a CMGI company, from accessing its AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) program.iCast's iCaster application combines a multimedia player with messaging, using technology from Tribal Voice, another CMGI firm.
[March 2, 2000, 13:14]
AOL Blocks AT&T's IM Client
News Tribal Voice has also signed up AltaVista, which will release its own version of Tribal Voice's PowWow client later this winter. Tribal Voice officials said Wednesday that the company plans to release its own client later this year.
[December 9, 1999, 16:12]
CMGI's ICast Blends Messaging With Media
News Tribal Voice has also been able to connect users to AOL's AIM program, which currently dominates the instant messaging space, and to Microsoft's MSN Messenger. When Tribal Voice initially released the latest version of its software, AOL tried to...
[February 29, 2000, 14:38]
IM - A Not-so-instant Revolution
News Instant messaging is today where email was five years ago," said Ross Bagully, CEO of IM firm Tribal Voice . Several firms, including Tribal Voice, Microsoft, Odigo and Jabber.com, have tried to develop platforms that work with the AOL Instant...
[May 19, 2000, 8:51]
NovaWiz Messaging Piggybacks ICQ
News Both Microsoft and Tribal Voice, a division of CMGI, had developed instant messaging programs that interacted with AIM. Tribal Voice's software, which is used by AT&T's WorldNet and by AltaVista, another CMGI firm, has managed to stay connected.
[January 25, 2000, 10:04]
Exclusive: Microsoft's Brad Chase On AOL Row
News Chase: We sent AOL two letters last week, asking them to join with the rest of the industry -- including Microsoft, Yahoo, Excite, Prodigy, Infoseek, Tribal Voice, Activerse and AT&T -- in doing what's right for all consumers and developing an...
[August 2, 1999, 14:50]
AOL Not Invited To IMUnified Alliance
News Excite@home, Icast, AT&T, Odigo, Phone.com and Tribal Voice, and it plans to agree common specifications by the end of August. This week saw the creation of a new Instant Messaging (IM) consortium, which promises to break the barriers between rival...
[July 26, 2000, 10:19]
Unified Messaging Not So Unified
News Excite@home, Icast, AT&T, Odigo, Phone.com and Tribal Voice, and it plans to agree common specifications by the end of August. This week saw the creation of a new Instant Messaging (IM) consortium, which promises to remove the barriers between...
[July 26, 2000, 12:04]
AOL, Sun Get Buddy-buddy
News Some the most vocal critics, including CMGI's iCast and Tribal Voice, have gone out of business, however. Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner will begin testing technology to enable their instant messaging services to communicate with each other.
[October 25, 2001, 9:33]
Lycos Deal Flashes AOL's Determination
News The company has signed up a few developers, including Tribal Voice, who've agreed to use its software. America Online's deal to license its instant messaging software to Lycos itself flashed a message to the world: It signalled AOL's determination...
[October 7, 1999, 14:46]
FCC Alleged Toothless On IM Conditions
News But this aggressive tactic increased scrutiny from Congress and federal regulators, who have been lobbied heavily by AOL competitors -- led by the now-defunct CMGI-owned companies iCast and Tribal Voice -- seeking to turn instant messaging into a...
[January 15, 2001, 8:15]
Open Letter To Steve Case
News Joseph Esposito, President & CEO Tribal Voice, Inc. We are sure you are aware of the issue regarding interoperability between the instant messaging services of AOL and other vendors and of AOL's efforts to block instant messaging clients from other...
[July 30, 1999, 14:50]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog IDF has many powerful overtones of a tribal gathering, with Big Chiefs uttering gnomic insights, acolytes rushing about, ritual meals, and a core of deep, dark magic that drives the whole thing. It comes from the excellent Web site the Ship of...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Cursors Face Defining Moments On The Web
News Technology from companies including Comet, NBCi's QuickClick (formerly Flyswat), Tribal Voice, Nano, Octopus and Atomica seeks to make the information-gathering process online more fluid, timely and efficient.
[January 29, 2001, 17:14]
Microsoft To Release Messenger Protocols
News At least three companies -- Prodigy Communications, Tribal Voice, and PeopleLink -- have backed the Microsoft move. Microsoft said Wednesday it would release the protocols for its MSN Messenger program to allow other instant messaging applications...
[August 18, 1999, 13:56]
AOL-Novell: One Giant Leap For NDS?
News Tribal Voice Inc.and Yahoo! Unlike operating system rival Microsoft Corp. Novell did not have an instant messaging offering. As a result of the AOL deal signed on Wednesday, it does now. And the company has big plans for integrating AOL Instant...
[August 13, 1999, 12:08]
