In light of recent leaks of confidential data from various provincial government sectors, Memorial University is beefing up their precautions to ensure that private information belonging to both students and faculty is secure, by implementing a ban on all instant messaging programs on university-owned computers.
Memorial University - The Muse, Student Paper
QED Connect, Inc, an innovative software-as-a-service provider for the information security market, announced that general availability of its instant message (IM) Manager product will begin in April 2008. Previously announced in February, IM Manager is a software tool that increases an organization’s ability to manage IM communications for productivity, security and regulatory compliance purposes. IM Manager records and archives all IM conversations taking place on company computers, laptops and wireless devices anywhere in the world.
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Contextual messaging, id management, personal profile, call it what you will, could it be that messaging will be become an embedded service within other applications, rather than merely a standalone application in its own right?
It's a given golden rule of mobile that once you offer cross network interoperability to users for any given service, use rockets. Of course, the golden example is SMS (the bronze example is MMS) and operators hoped that by combining their efforts within the GSMA's Personal Instant Messaging Initiative, they would be able to sprinkle some of the same magic dust over instant messaging.
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Three trends are becoming clear about small-business use of technology, especially mobile tech. First, business owners are using mobile devices more and more. About 42 percent now spend at least one-third of their time away from the office and stay in touch via mobile device, according to a new study by Warrillow & Co, a small-business marketing firm. Second, even consumer-type tech solutions, such as blogs and IM, can help increase productivity in small and medium businesses. Third, tech manufacturers see the trends and are tweaking their products and services to appeal to the mobile small-business user.
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Two-and-a-half years after eBay bought Skype, the online auction giant has moved away from trying to create new, merged capabilities through the acquisition and is letting Skype be what it is.
"There's less focus at eBay today on finding the place where eBay and Skype intersect on the Web and mash up to create a new ... communication paradigm for eBay, and more focus on Skype growing its business and eBay growing its business," said Jonathan Christensen, Skype's general manager of audio and video, at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) in Mountain View, California.
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New graduates entering the workplace need more innovative communication technologies, such as instant messaging (IM) and Web cams, to help them perform to the best of their abilities in the office. A survey by communications company Plantronics showed that technologies used frequently by people outside the professional environment to communicate are now considered by graduates to be ripe for the office.
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"Graduates have grown up with newer forms of communication and we are not just talking email and mobile phones.
"By embracing IM and hands-free, or even providing this new workforce with greater flexibility in where and when they work, employers can maximise the potential of the young talent they have."
Two-thirds of managers in the UK indicated that graduates communicate less vocally than their colleagues and believe them to be forsaking face-to-face and telephone conversations in favour of email.
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Microsoft Corp and Nortel announced the availability of four new joint unified communications (UC) solutions designed to transform how people around the world connect, communicate and collaborate. With the Nortel and Microsoft Carrier Hosted UC Solution, service providers can offer hosted UC solutions to SMBs and enterprises using Nortel’s Communication Server 2000 softswitch with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging. The solution allows providers to equip workers with IM, VoIP, click-to-call, video conferencing and other multimedia services through Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.
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In security, you can’t just pick the right answer and stick with it – you must maintain personal security awareness and an ongoing ability to make good decisions based on that awareness. For instance, there’s the matter of spam. Spam is not a problem you can solve by guarding against it. You have exactly two options for truly protecting yourself from spam. You can stop using any communication media that allow for automation and bulk sending. This means no more instant messaging (IM) services, email and SMS texting.
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