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Yahoo Logs Out Of Enterprise IM
News Like Yahoo, AOL has retrenched its enterprise IM division. The dropping of Yahoo Messenger Enterprise Edition marks the end of the Web portal's now-defunct enterprise software division. In an informal interview earlier this week, Yahoo's chief...
[June 18, 2004, 9:35]
Businesses Wrestle For Control Over IM
News America Online, MSN and Yahoo! While AOL, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo! Companies big and small are discovering that their employees are using instant messaging clients produced by AOL, MSN and Yahoo! Gurle said that AOL, MSN and Yahoo will need to be...
[February 26, 2003, 8:01]
AOL Withdraws From Enterprise IM
News The announcement that AOL is ditching its AIM Enterprise Gateway package comes only days after Yahoo, one of AOL's closest competitors, said it was pulling the plug on its own enterprise IM software. It is believed that some 85 percent of all...
[June 22, 2004, 8:25]
PeopleSoft Climbs Aboard The IM Bandwagon
News The IM features harness IBM's Lotus Sametime technology for presence detection, Microsoft's real-time communication server called Greenwich and Yahoo's Messenger Enterprise Edition. Eager to profit from the growing corporate use of instant...
[March 14, 2003, 13:46]
Yahoo! Taps Users For Corporate IM Strategy
News Yahoo! The Web portal has begun a campaign called "Save Smiley", in reference to Yahoo! As instant messaging use increases, some corporate IT departments are banning it, while others are demanding that Internet service providers -- including big...
[April 11, 2003, 7:46]
Yahoo Shuts Up Enterprise-software Shop
News Yahoo is closing down its enterprise-software division and has laid off an undisclosed number of employees as a result. Enterprise solutions as a division is being parceled out to be with complimentary elements on the consumer side," Yahoo...
[November 3, 2003, 9:00]
IM Networks Break Deadlock
News The connections will be based on direct links between LCS and AOL and Yahoo's IM servers, which means LCS users will see their Yahoo, AOL and MSN buddy lists appear when they log on and be able to instant message their contacts.
[July 15, 2004, 7:25]
Enterprise Listens To Instant Messages
News Still others, including Yahoo's Enterprise Edition, use the same basic client-based technology as their consumer variants but add extra levels of protection and management. However, while the cost of deployment of public IM clients such as...
[May 15, 2003, 11:13]
Is AOL Losing Its Messaging Voice?
News In addition to creating a niche for newcomers, the business market is already leading to paid IM services, an area that AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have left aside for now. AOL isn't alone in falling behind the corporate IM curve: Yahoo!
[June 5, 2002, 9:14]
Microsoft Adds IM Software To Office
News Leaders in consumer instant messaging like AOL, MSN and Yahoo, which have amassed hundreds of millions of nonpaying users, all have launched enterprise IM products. Enterprise instant messaging has become a new market that technology heavyweights...
[May 27, 2003, 15:53]
Air2Web Helps IM Get Along
News In October, Yahoo announced it would begin selling its own corporate instant messaging product as part of its enterprise portal business. The hardware and software setup, called 2IM, enables users of disparate IM programs from Yahoo!
[April 22, 2003, 10:49]
Microsoft Debuts Corporate IM
News In October, Yahoo announced it would begin selling its own corporate instant messaging product as part of its enterprise portal business. Then Yahoo also has released some enterprise products. Microsoft's entry into corporate IM comes on the heels...
[November 13, 2002, 8:49]
Tarantella Moves Closer To Windows
News If Tarantella does not build a secure IM client, and corporates do not provide it for their users, said Michels, "they will use Yahoo! We're starting to look at putting Yahoo! More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel.
[February 5, 2002, 15:46]
AOL IM Tools Up For Business
News AIM Pro Business Edition (PBE), launched on Thursday, is an IM service aimed at business users who need tighter security and management than traditionally available in the popular consumer products from Yahoo and MSN.
[September 15, 2006, 11:15]
Microsoft Patents Widely Used IM Feature
News The patent encompasses a feature that's not only on Microsoft's IM products but also on those of its rivals America Online and Yahoo. Some of the most popular IM services -- AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and MSN -- have added features...
[October 8, 2003, 8:34]
Merrill Lynch Bans Web-based Email
News Merrill Lynch is to ban access to outside email services from popular sites such as America Online, Yahoo and MSN, in response to regulatory requirements and to protect its network from viruses, according to a company memo.
[August 11, 2003, 15:50]
Sun Rises On Corporate IM
News That could create a big opportunity for companies such as Sun to steal the march from the three giants of the consumer IM marketplace: AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo. Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have all announced plans in the past six months to develop...
[February 27, 2003, 11:47]
'Spim' Threat Hovers On Horizon
News In September, Yahoo updated its IM client to make it more difficult for hackers to access addresses. Levine believes that spim is easier to control than email spam, because free IM services from America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have closed...
[April 2, 2004, 9:20]
AOL Encrypts Instant Messaging
News However, IM remains a free service for which providers, including AOL rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, have avoided tacking on fees. The big three Internet giants have all launched enterprise IM products in hopes of tapping revenue from business users.
[July 1, 2003, 12:28]
Work Together, IM Giants Told
News The chief public IM networks -- America Online's Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! For the month of July, 12.7 million office workers were using instant messaging services, including those from AOL, Yahoo!
[September 13, 2002, 13:23]
