Cezeo’s Collaboration IM app for Windows

While instant messaging (IM) is part of everyday life for millions of computer users, it has become both the savior and bane of many businesses. IM lets workers share information immediately, but it can also be disruptive when employees spend work time communicating with friends outside the office. It can be even more disruptive when internal sensitive information is passed, either accidentally or by stealth, to the wrong recipient. Many organizations have strict policies against IM systems precisely for these reasons. Unfortunately, they also lose out on the benefits IM can deliver to work teams. One solution is to provide IM systems that can only be used within the confines of the enterprise and don’t connect to the wider world of the Internet. Cezeo’s LanTalk NET 3.1 is one such application because it is designed to work inside a company’s firewall.

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AOL IM tools up for business

The days of companies using unsecure consumer technology for IM are numbered, according to AOL and online conferencing company WebEx. AIM Pro Business Edition, launched on Thursday, is an IM service aimed at business users who need tighter security and management than traditionally available in the popular consumer products from Yahoo and MSN.

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Creating a security policy and enforcing it

Hardly a week passes without a report of consumer or company data being compromised. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse more than 90 million data records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches since February 2005.

TechNewsWorld

VoIP and instant messaging used by 1.7 million

Consultancy Carrier y Asociados has said that about 17% of Argentina’s ten million Internet users are using VoIP and instant messaging, BNamericas reports. This represents a 31% increase in the last twelve months and is driven by the expansion of broadband in the country, said consultancy director Enrique Carrier, adding that VoIP was used by 29% of broadband subscribers.

TeleGeography

WebEx "first" on-demand enterprise IM

WebEx, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for collaborative business on the web, today announced the general availability of the industry's first enterprise-class on-demand solution for enterprise instant messaging (EIM). WebEx AIM Pro Business Edition combines the scale, flexibility and zero-maintenance of the on-demand model with the security, compliance, hygiene and centralized administration controls organizations required to IM a viable productivity tool for the enterprise.

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