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InternetNews February 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Teen's Extortion Plot Spims Out of Control A young New Yorker is nabbed in L.A. for "spimming" - sending spam through instant messenger.  |
InternetNews March 29, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
IM Spam Expected to Triple As if spam wasn't annoying enough, unwanted messages are popping up on instant messaging screens too.  |
InternetNews November 10, 2005 Tim Gray |
IM Use Is Surging, Says (IM Provider) AOL The popularity of instant messaging continued to grow this year, as many Americans embraced the technology both for personal and business purposes, according to a new survey.  |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Spim Scam IMs Spam The first arrest has been made for a scam that was waiting to happen -- sending unwanted solicitations through instant messaging.  |
AFP eWire January 10, 2005 |
Instant Messaging: The Next Online Donation Tool? Even though you're probably not maximizing the potential of email with donors, are you recognizing that IM and mobile text messaging is rapidly catching up to email in usage?  |
PC Magazine September 15, 2003 |
Mass IM One billion messages here, one billion there, and soon you're a broadcaster. That's the thinking behind a new enterprise messaging service designed to turn instant messaging into instant broadcasting.  |
Insurance & Technology May 18, 2004 Julie Gallagher |
SPIM Gaining Ground on Spam IM is becoming the conduit of choice for senders of unsolicited messages.  |
Wall Street & Technology July 26, 2004 Kerry Massaro |
Fast Facts From Radicati Group Learn some statistics about instant messaging, e-mail and spam, and voice over internet protocol.  |
InternetNews February 10, 2010 |
Microsoft Live Messenger Tops 300M Users Worldwide use continues to grow for the software giant's venerable instant messaging platform. So what's the problem?  |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo! Says No to Trillian The Internet bellwether Yahoo! is blocking third-party instant messaging clients like Trillian from its network. According to Yahoo!, the reason for the move is to head spim, the instant messenger equivalent to spam, off at the pass.  |
The Motley Fool April 1, 2004 Tim Beyers |
The Business End of IM Instant Messaging gets bigger every day, partly do to the effect spam is having on email. For real investment opportunity to arise in this market, spim must be stopped.  |
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring |
Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail.  |
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
IM Accounts to Number in The Billions Instant messaging and enterprise instant messaging should continue to grow.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
IM Gets Down to Business An AOL survey shows, not surprisingly, that instant messaging (IM) is on the rise. Soon, younger workers may prefer IM to the telephone. Perhaps corporations had better think about their IM policies.  |
InternetNews December 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
E-Mail Dominance Faces Challenges E-mail faces significant challenges from real time communications, spam and bugs and viruses, according to a new report from IDC.  |
PC World May 30, 2002 Frank Thorsberg |
Instant Messaging Etiquette Follow our ten tips for proper IM manners...  |
Inc. October 2005 John Fried |
Is Instant Messaging an Instant Menace? IM, e-mail's little brother, isn't just for teenagers anymore. But it causes some problems in a corporate environment.  |
InternetNews February 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Return to 'Spim' to Lure Victims Once again, instant messaging is being used by malware authors and fraudulent marketers to ply their trades.  |
InternetNews October 5, 2005 Clint Boulton |
IDC: IM Use is Booming in Business A research firm says the enterprise instant messaging market will more than double by 2009.  |
PC World June 2004 Andrew Brandt |
Cut Off Instant Messaging Spam How to avoid 'spim' with the major IM packages.  |
InternetNews September 2, 2004 Roy Mark |
Study: Workers Find IM a Mixed Blessing As workplace instant messaging use increases, most find it a positive, although concerns linger.  |
PC World June 21, 2001 Jeff Palfini |
Teenagers Do Their Talking Online Today's teens communicate more using the Internet than they do face-to-face, causing some parents to worry...  |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Two Days In, Tumblr Users Have Sent 9 Million Instant Messages Tumblr's new instant messaging feature, which it launched to a limited pool of users on November 11th, is gaining momentum.  |
InternetNews February 3, 2010 |
Youngsters Prefer Tweets to Blogs: Study Pew study reveals that young Internet users want to read and post messages that are short and to the point.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
More Unwanted Messages Since CAN-SPAM While Pew Internet & American Life Project found that e-mail users have seen an increase in spam, the survey reports a decrease in pornographic messages.  |
PC Magazine December 30, 2003 |
IM Spam, Spam I Am You don't have to put up with spam coming at you when you're iming. Here's what you need to know.  |
PC World February 2004 Steve Fox |
New and Nasty Ways to Get Spammed Plus: Telephones tackle television, and Sun tackles Microsoft.  |
CIO June 15, 2005 |
Corporate Message Policies Fall Short Though more companies are training employees in the proper use of e-mail, more than a third of survey respondents either didn't know or weren't sure about the difference between electronic records that need to be retained and insignificant messages that may be deleted.  |
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN, Vodafone Entwine IM Systems The content player and carrier will let European users message from phone to PC and back.  |
D-Lib October 2006 |
Take Care in the Digital World How many users consider what they may be surrendering in the way of privacy for the conveniences afforded by new online services?  |
InternetNews April 29, 2010 |
Ballmer Shows Off Next Windows Live Messenger Microsoft's next edition of its IM client may be around the corner, with new features and enhancements.  |
InternetNews May 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Learning to Live With Spam Pew research finds users have gotten smarter about spam and are learning to deal with it, in more ways than one.  |
PC World May 24, 2001 Tom Spring |
Who's Reading Your Instant Messages? Privacy advocates warn of greater vulnerability as popular application migrates to more devices...  |
Entrepreneur December 2003 Mike Hogan |
Let's Chat Instant messaging hits the road with the release of some new devices. For example, Cingular Wireless Interactive Messaging PLUS lets you text chat on RIM BlackBerry 950 and 957 handhelds and Good Technology's G100 for $20 to $50 per month, depending on usage.  |
CIO November 15, 2001 Christopher Lindquist |
Get the Message Use of collaboration tools continues to grow at a dramatic rate, according to a recent report...  |
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Tim Gray |
Reuters Connects IM Players The new instant messaging service for financial institutions will save a paper trail for compliance purposes.  |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
AOL Aims at Business Today, Time Warner's America Online unit, which offers the most popular instant messenger client, AIM, said it has teamed up with several companies to offer a more business-friendly version of the software.  |
Entrepreneur October 2004 Steve Cooper |
It Figures 10/04 Statistics and their sources addressing: U.S. Living arrangements... Overseas outsourcing... Office use of instant messaging... etc.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2004 Tim Gray |
ICQ Launches Improved E-Mail Service Longtime instant messaging player ICQ is going the portal route with the launch of two new e-mail services for its 20 million users.  |
CIO September 15, 2003 Geoffrey James |
Auditing the Chat Line You've got instant messaging. And the accountants and regulators may want to take a look at it someday. Especially if you are in the financial services industry, instant chat missives are subject to the same kinds of document retention rules that govern paper documents and e-mail messages.  |
InternetNews October 30, 2007 |
Yahoo Adds More Media to IM Yahoo said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.  |
InternetNews March 1, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Sigaba Bolsters Enterprise Security A new partnership brings instant messaging applications into the realm of secure e-mail.  |
InternetNews December 7, 2006 Michael Hickins |
IBM Collaboration Suite Gets More Chatty IBM today announced that customers of its Lotus Sametime 7.5 corporate instant messaging and Web conferencing application can now communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk instant messaging systems.  |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
AIM's New Outlook AOL ties its popular instant messenger product to Microsoft's Outlook Express. Time Warner investors who track the AOL unit's fortunes might hope that it has more up its sleeve to further integrate its products in a way to give its products more pull with Internet users.  |
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray |
Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.  |
Entrepreneur January 2003 Mark Henricks |
Instant Mess Grab the spackle. Instant messaging is the latest crack in your business's security.  |
PC World May 22, 2007 Liane Cassavoy |
Meebo Tops in Web-Based IM Services Six free online instant messengers: eBuddy, ILoveIM, Imhaha, Kook IM, Meebo, and RadiusIM.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2005 Tim Gray |
IM Threats Bombard Systems The increase in attacks on instant messaging systems has corporations on guard.  |
InternetNews August 24, 2005 Tim Gray |
In Any Language, IM Worm a Pain A new "multiple language" smart worm is spreading through Instant Messaging. It is a new variant of the Kelvir instant messaging worm dubbed Kelvir.HI.  |
InternetNews May 18, 2005 Tim Gray |
AOL Gaming is All in The Family AOL integrates real-time communications into games.  |