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Microsoft adds XMPP to Windows Messenger
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has made good on a promise made at the Build conference earlier this year, incorporating support for the open XMPP protocol into its Windows Messenger platform. This is a
Company plans to eliminate email
Email has always presented its share of problems, and now one company is planning to do away with it altogether. European IT firm Atos expects to ban employees from using email in 18 months, reports
Spotlight: Seamless instant messaging with Trillian chat client
With an eye for the growing number of smartphone users, Cerulean Studios has redesigned its latest version of the Trillian instant messaging chat client to incorporate features that make it friendly
Socialtext focuses on corporate Intranet integration
Socialtext released version 4.6 last week, concentrating in this release on enhancing corporate Intranets by giving them a social component. This continues Socialtext's strategy to portray themselves
Salesforce gets more social with Dimdim purchase
Salesforce.com announced last week that it was purchasing real-time communications vendor Dimdim for $31 million. The purchase gives Salesforce video conferencing, presence awareness and instant
Skype outage blamed on bug in its Windows client
Skype experienced an outage of approximately 24 hours last week after suffering a critical failure on its peer-to-peer platform. The initial flashpoint was understood to have occurred at 8am PST on
Email use declining
The use of email is apparently on a decline, according to figures quoted in a New York Times report. The total number of unique visitors from the United States to major email providers like Yahoo and
IM+ offers free web version of multi IM service
The popular maker of multi instant-messaging service, Shape Services, has released its new service IM+ for web as a public beta. As its name implies, IM+ for web allows users to log onto a web
Will you have a 24-hour workday in the year 2020?
The work environment is changing rapidly, driven by advances in technology and evolving business exigencies. The workforce is much more mobile and dispersed than even a few years ago, giving new
Email no longer rules
Like the pay phone, paying bills by snail mail and getting your newspaper delivered to your door, the days of email are numbered. In its place is a new generation of services to communicate and
