Apple is taking the popularity of its iMessage platform into the business ecosystem on iOS 11 through a partnership with Nuance Communications, Inc. The new Business Chat will allow businesses to connect with
Published on: June 27th, 2017 Alex Radu @AlexTRadu
How can businesses be sure the messages they're exchanging are safe from prying eyes? Encryption is a first step that many service providers are implementing, but digital civil rights organization the Electronic Frontier
Facebook is ending support for Internet Explorer 6. Granted, it is only pulling the plug on IE6 in its chat function, but the move by Facebook is the latest effort to shift away
Published on: August 29th, 2010 Tony Bradley @itbusinessca
You're organizing a weekend road trip and chatting with your friend using MSN Messenger when you decide to check with your other friends about their availability.But you know that some of them don't
What's okay on Facebook? On sites like MySpace, anything goes (or seems to), but the rules of etiquette on Facebook seem to be a little more refined--not a lot, mind you, but a
Published on: August 5th, 2009 Christopher Null @itbusinessca
The world of instant messaging is crowded and becoming even more so. It began with ICQ (does anybody use it today?), which was closely followed by AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. More
Published on: February 2nd, 2009 Howard Wen @itbusinessca
Pick a Camera Although you obviously can't do videoconferencing without a camera, what sort of camera you use doesn't actually matter much. Since your Internet connection will likely throttle the performance of any
Published on: November 24th, 2008 Zack Stern @itbusinessca
Google added a voice and video chat feature to Gmail today. The capability allows people who use the free e-mail service to click on a contact's name and, provided their computers both have
Published on: November 13th, 2008 C.G. Lynch and Daniel Ionescu @itbusinessca
Google is offering a service-level agreement for a version of Google Apps, a move that may provide some comfort to enterprises spooked by a long Gmail outage and a buggy Apps portal earlier
Published on: November 3rd, 2008 Jeremy Kirk and Daniel Ionescu @itbusinessca
