When employees started downloading free instant-messaging programs to use at work, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC's initial response was to pull the plug on the popular online communications. Pam Housley, ...

Akonix L7 Enterprise 2.0 is an easy, affordable way to impose corporate usage policies on public IM services You’ve seen the high-profile role that e-mail records have played in recent accounting ...

As Eric pointed out Cisco's acquisition of Jabber is all about the company delivering a unified communications solution that can go head to head with Microsoft. With its Unified Communications Manager ...

The companies, through their iPlanet software collaboration, are quietly working on instant messaging software for businesses, a market segment where Microsoft and IBM lead. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The growing importance of instant messaging and its possible future status as a major means of communication emerged as one of the top issues in the Federal Communications Commission’s deliberations ...

Every day, a typical individual relies on multiple instant messaging apps. The practice of exchanging information through IM apps has seamlessly woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives. They ...

We’ve all heard it before: “Remote work is the new normal.” Virtual meetings have become common place across the business landscape and an increasing number of employees are opting for pajamas over ...

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...