Instant-messaging virus costs a man his job

A businessman whose computer had been infected by a virus found that his entire buddy list had been sent a record of all his IM conversations, said Derek O'Carroll, managing director of IM software vendor IMLogic on Tuesday. Read this and more Instant Message News.

M and P2P file sharing poses problems

In 2003, virus outbreaks cost business $55 billion, and just in the first six months of 2003, IM or P2P were involved in 19 of the top 50 virus threats -- a 400 percent increase over the previous year,' the SurfControl white paper reports. Read the entire story IM Frame News

YAHOO blocks Trillian--again

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Yahoo on Wednesday began blocking Cerulean Studios' Trillian software from
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AOL Phases Out Business IM

The exodus of instant messaging service providers from the enterprise software market continues this week, with America Online announcing plans to abandon its AIM Enterprise Gateway product and migrate users of that product to a similar one from IMlogic.

America Online and IMlogic to Migrate AIM Enterprise Gateway Customers to IMlogic Solutions

America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and IMlogic Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for the instant messaging (IM) market, today announced that they have agreed to work together to migrate customers from American Online's AIM Enterprise Gateway product to the AIM certified IMlogic IM Manager solution at no charge.

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IM Frame custom software enables tabbed IM and log manager for AIM.

Yahoo scraps enterprise IM

Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that it is no longer selling a version of its popular instant-messaging service for corporations, ending the Web portal's attempt to sell IM as a software package.

Macromedia Demos Future of Instant Enterprise Communications

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AOL adds business services to AIM

America Online Inc. is making its popular AIM instant messaging service more palatable for business users, although one analyst said the new offerings could create some headaches for IT departments.

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The 10th Annual Gartner IT Security Summit got off to a slow start yesterday with a basic tutorial on what Gartner called "emerging" solutions for network security, but some attendees termed quite "generic."
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New Version of SnagIt Supports Instant Messaging, Third-Party Image Editing

TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, today announced the availability of SnagIt 7.1 with new features designed to simplify capturing, editing and sharing images, including support for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger.

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Sharing Files: The Untold Story of Software Piracy

Employees generally are not aware of the damage their P2P and instant-messaging use does to their companies.