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Aug. 20 -- Although instant messaging is often associated with teen-agers chatting online, corporations are increasingly looking toward the tool as a way to boost worker productivity. Around 18.3 ...
Instant messaging on your network can be a productivity tool, but also a security hazard, legal minefield, and threat to worker productivity.
Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging's growing maturity.
So instant messaging in my - and my generation's point of view - hasn't gone out fashion, it has merely changed its meaning and definition.
N E W   Y O R K, July 29 -- These days, information technology has about as much buzz as a beehive in winter — except enterprise instant messaging. The noise from that corner of corporate ...
“I think instant messaging is really an untapped resource for a lot of teachers,” says William Kist, an assistant professor of English education at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and a ...
Online marketers are combining the power of instant messaging with peer-to-peer networks such as Napster to create a new wave of Web advertising some call more invasive than spam.
Instant messaging has enjoyed phenomenal success as a person-to-person communication tool; in some instances, it has supplanted email as the preferred means of online communication. Now ...
Not so well-received: Though Tumblr claims its users have been wanting instant messaging for a while now, some reacted with disapproval on Tumblr's Facebook announcement of the new feature.
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The instant messaging is real, bonafide messaging (and threading) from one Tumblr user to another. But since this is such a huge launch, ...