Parlano Inc announced MindAlign 2007, the most advanced persistent group-chat solution and the foundation of a growing number of organizations’ unified-communications strategies.
More on announcement on TMCnet
Voice Over IP (VOIP) software maker Skype rolled out a new beta release of Skype for Mac, version 2.6.
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People who use AIM or ICQ for instant messaging are vulnerable to a file-transfer path-traversal vulnerability that could be remotely exploited. Those who would rather not have someone out there dropping files on their systems over AIM or ICQ have different options available to them right now. An iDefense Labs report said that fixes to AIM’s infrastructure will mitigate the problem for AIM version 5.9 and earlier, although AIM’s parent AOL suggests people upgrade AIM to a current version.
More at SecurityProNews
The popular, multi-protocol instant messaging client Gaim has, due to legal pressure from AOL regarding the trademarked name AIM, changed its name to Pidgin. This marks the second time the developers have changed the project name to appease AOL.
More on Wired Blog
The adoption of instant messaging (IM) across corporate networks outside of the control of IT organizations creates many risks and liabilities for companies who do not effectively manage and support IM use. Companies implement specialized IM archiving and security products and services like those from Secure Computing, Akonix, Surfcontrol and ScanSafe to mitigate these risks and provide safe, secure, productive IM capabilities to their employees.
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PR News wire on EarthTimes:
Reuters Messaging 6.0 enables energy market professionals to gain real- time access to their market counterparts globally across front, middle and back offices, increasing the efficiency of pre-trade discussion, post-trade scheduling, transportation and logistics. It also allows energy traders to quickly post prices to Platts daily via Reuters Messaging, a key source of energy pricing data.
With the introduction of IM connectivity to Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters Messaging 6.0 offers the ability to send text based messages, view presence, and access conversation history between networks by signing into one service. In addition to connectivity to Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters Messaging 6.0 adds tools to graphically share market data and insight with market counterparts. Reuters Messaging is the first enterprise instant messaging service to connect to the three leading public instant messaging networks providing extended reach to the financial community.
3, Ireland’s mobile media network, today announced that its customers can now talk to their buddies using Microsoft’s Window’s Live Messenger service for free, for life.
Both 3Pay Monthly and 3Pay customers will be able to take text messaging to the next level and chat online in real-time with friends and family on their mobile or PC.
Using the same online ‘Messenger’ experience, 3 customers will be able to use their existing username and password to access their buddy list and then view and respond to messages instantly.
More at Irish Development News
People need time to collaborate, as well as an appropriate space and environment in which to collaborate. These needs are addressed by an array of collaboration software tools that come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the humble peer-to-peer-based freeware for presence detection and instant messaging on the desktop, to enterprise-wide content-management solutions that deliver shared workspaces with end-to-end collaboration functionality.
Rest at CBR Online
Chat Watch SPEAR (Software to Protect, Enforce and Respond) Edition is a software tool to assist law enforcement agencies with investigations that concern instant messaging. Chat Watch SPEAR Edition organizes the details of the investigation and provides the ability to log instant message conversations. Chat Watch SPEAR Edition can have multiple investigators and investigations, supports logging today's most popular instant messaging services, and Chat Watch SPEAR Edition can create reports of the investigation in formats such as PDF and DOC.
Oak Hill, WV (PRWeb) April 5, 2007 -- Zemerick Software, Inc. proudly announces the release of Chat Watch SPEAR (Software to Protect, Enforce and Respond) Edition.
Chat Watch SPEAR Edition is specifically designed to assist law enforcement agencies in their crime investigations involving instant messaging. By providing a central location to organize the investigative details, actively log instant messages and create investigation reports, Chat Watch SPEAR Edition reduces the time necessary to conduct such investigations and ensures accurate records of instant messages.
Full announcement at eMedia Wire
Yahoo has patched a buffer overflow vulnerability in its instant-messaging tool that would have enabled attackers to potentially execute code on a compromised machine.
The flaw exists in an ActiveX control that is part of the Yahoo Messenger audio conference control. If exploited, a buffer overflow could cause a user to be involuntarily logged out of a chat or instant messaging session, the crash of an application such as Internet Explorer or the execution of code.
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