With the news the Research in Motion is considering raising the curtain on its BlackBerry Messenger program and porting it to other platforms, even more mobile device users may soon be addicted to
Published on: March 17th, 2011 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines, the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over
Published on: May 21st, 2010 Lucas Mearian @itbusinessca
Concentration is defined as giving all of your attention to a subject or--hey wait, I just got a text message.Okay, I'm back. What was I saying?Oh right...something about concentration--a subject that any modern-day
Published on: May 7th, 2010 Christopher Null @itbusinessca
Cell phones, texting, IM, email, Facebook, MySpace--kids are interconnected today in ways hardly imagined two decades ago. But these technology-based communication platforms also enable new forms of an age-old parenting strategy: monitoring your
Published on: April 20th, 2010 Joan Goodchild @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
The popularity of instant messaging has grown exponentially in the past decade, but the communication platform's immediacy presents users with endless opportunities to come off the wrong way. These tips will help you
Published on: August 19th, 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
Video communications will never replace all face-to-face business meetings, but IT administrators need to be able to divvy out enough bandwidth to the right users so they can talk using their Web cams,
