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RSS icqManaging the Rise of Instant Messaging in the Workplace
White Paper Since its humble beginnings almost 10 years ago, when a company called Mirablis introduced a freeware called ICQ providing real-time interactive chat and file transfer functions, IM has moved rapidly out of the... [23 Mar 2009]
BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market
News Windows Live, AOL and ICQ) and a number of social-networking apps, including Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. On Tuesday night, RIM officially introduced the first touchscreen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm. [08 Oct 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News In a conference call on Thursday, Falco and Ron Grant, AOL's president and COO, as well as Bebo president Joanna Shields, said that integration between Bebo and AOL's AIM and ICQ messaging properties will be crucial. [13 Mar 2008]
AOL gives IM a spit and polish
News The AIM Pro service connects to more than 80 million users on the global AOL instant-messaging network through AOL AIM, ICQ and Apple's iChat, AOL said. AOL is today set to launch its new AIM Pro instant-messaging... [19 Jul 2006]
RIM says Yahoo! to mobile IM
News AOL has also announced it's working with RIM in the mobile email space, with the ISP signing up to RIM's mobile developer programme to support offering AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ on the Blackberry. [14 Mar 2005]
IM targeted by increased attacks
News Yahoo followed behind with 18 per cent of reported incidents and AOL and ICQ shared the last 12 per cent. Reports of malware, spam and hacking attacks over instant-messaging (IM) services are up 50 per cent this year,... [10 Mar 2005]
Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker
Comment Tim Draper, managing director of Skype investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson, said: "This is a major improvement in the way people communicate on the order of Hotmail and ICQ, only a lot bigger and growing a lot faster. [05 Nov 2004]
ICQ offers IM with video
News America Online's ICQ instant messaging software now supports video chat, one of the first tangible results of the ICQ unit's recently launched developer program. ICQ in April began... [26 Oct 2004]
'All New' Yahoo IM client out
News Microsoft last week introduced a subscription-based online game service for MSN Messenger, while AOL launched a new version of its ICQ instant messenger that offers a more personalised touch. Yahoo will today launch a... [26 Apr 2004]
ICQ launches social networking with IM
News On Thursday, popular instant-messaging service ICQ added a social networking element that enables people to meet and chat with their friends' friends. The company hopes that the new service will provide users with a more... [05 Mar 2004]
Trillian finally cracks Yahoo!
News AOL, which owns AIM and ICQ, has not taken any steps to block Trillian. Cerulean Studios' popular Trillian instant-messaging software has released a new patch that should allow its users to regain connectivity with Yahoo! [10 Oct 2003]
“You there?” IM users remember - the firewalls have ears
Comment Anyone with internet access can download a public IM system like AIM, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo! Is IM all about idle chit-chat? How can companies harness its power instead of face embarrassment? Simon Marshall explains. [03 Oct 2003]
IM: Managing the medium, managing the message
Comment Employees can download one of the four big IM clients - AOL, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo! Choosing IM as a new means of corporate communications is not a decision to be made by IT managers or the board. The decision has already... [24 Sep 2003]
IM coming of age
Comment Perhaps most importantly of all, the main providers of consumer IM software - AOL (also including the pioneering ICQ service), Microsoft and Yahoo! Instant messaging doesn't mean a whole lot to those who don't use it. [24 Sep 2003]
Reuters and AOL in IM deal
News Reuters said that under the strategic alliance, users of its messaging software would be able to view and communicate with individuals who are logged onto any of AOL's IM systems, including its AOL, AIM and ICQ services. [10 Sep 2003]
