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News AOL has developed a service with mobile provider Verizon allowing customers to send instant messages that arrive as text messages on mobile phones America Online announced an agreement... [02 Jul 2003]
Securing and Archiving Instant Messages: A Critical Step for Securing Microsoft Messaging Environments
White Paper As part of a secure and productive messaging environment where users can take advantage of the latest communication tools, Symantec IM Manager can help organizations control Instant Messaging (IM) while complying with... [05 Jun 2007]
Are you trading MP3s? Then the RIAA wants a word with you...
News In a new 'educational' tactic, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) plans to send instant messages to those offering music tracks through peer-to-peer services, warning them that they are... [30 Apr 2003]
Treat your IM like you would your email
News Instant messages should be treated the same way as email messages and be archived for three years according to the Nasdaq stock market regulator. The National Association of Securities... [19 Jun 2003]
AOL adds new ingredients to spam
News AOL has revised its US terms of service to include instant messages and chat postings as potential spam, reflecting the changing nature of internet communications. The new terms read: "You may not use... [09 Jul 2003]
Worm takes AIM at your buddies
News The worm spread in instant messages with the text: "LOL LOOK AT HIM" and included a web link to a file called "picture.pif". Just as with attachments and links in email, instant message... [16 Jun 2005]
US man arrested for spim
News A US teenager has become the first person to be arrested for the sending of unsolicited instant messages - or spim. It is alleged Greco sent 1.5 million messages advertising pornography... [21 Feb 2005]
Yahoo! and Microsoft set for IM love-in?
News are close to a pact that would allow users of their respective instant messaging services to exchange messages with one another, according to a source. For some months now, workers at businesses running... [12 Oct 2005]
IM spam: A threat or a storm in a teacup?
News As spammers face legal action from the Can-Spam Act, they are expected to turn their efforts to sending unwanted messages via instant messaging, a technology that allows users to send... [02 Apr 2004]
Telstra brings Yahoo IM to SMS
News Instant Messenger account (YIM) by adding everyone they want to be able to exchange messages with to their 'Friends' list. ICQ has offered the ability to send instant... [15 Aug 2002]
AIM worm chats with intended victims
News According to IMlogic, the worm, dubbed IM.Myspace04.AIM, has arrived in instant messages that state: "lol thats cool" and included a URL to a malicious file "clarissa17.pif". But the worm is programmed... [07 Dec 2005]
What Every Company Should Know About Sarbanes-Oxley and Instant Messaging
White Paper Under SOX sections 404 (Management Assessment of Internal Controls) and 105(b), there is a consensus that best practices for compliance means establishing processes for managing electronic communications and a system for archiving... [19 Jul 2007]
IM: Managing the medium, managing the message
Comment The decision has already been made, with hundreds of millions of instant messages leaving corporate desktops everyday. A key differentiator of instant messaging and that other pillar of... [24 Sep 2003]
Could the future of instant messaging be Orange?
News The system will allow users to track when their friends are online and send them real time text messages via the web and their mobile phones. When new versions of the SMS standard become available, Orange hopes to add... [06 Sep 2001]
IM use booming at work
News Eleven per cent of office IM users said they have used instant messaging at work to avoid a potentially difficult in-person conversation, and 62 per cent send occasional instant messages... [25 Aug 2004]
