A recent study by Ottawa-based enterprise communications firm Mitel Networks has concluded that inefficient methods of communication are costing businesses more than $15,000 USD per employee, per year. To reach this number, researchers
Published on: April 12th, 2017
Eric Emin Wood
@ericewood
Facebook Messenger has become omni-present in the lives of one billion people, and despite concerns over the years about what information it might be gathering from users, a report recently released by Amnesty International found
Published on: November 11th, 2016
Gary Hilson
@itbusinessca
It might be among the worst-reviewed high-profile apps on the market, but Messenger, Facebook, Inc.'s mobile instant messaging service, just hit a significant milestone, announcing today that it had reached 900 million users
Published on: April 7th, 2016
Eric Emin Wood
@ericewood
BlackBerry has just announced the latest update of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, which promises to give users more control over their privacy. On Friday, BlackBerry unveiled a slew of new features with
Published on: October 31st, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
BlackBerry Ltd. is unveiling four new plans to make some money from BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), its flagship instant messaging platform. And while it hasn’t settled on just one plan, it will be trying
Published on: March 25th, 2014
Candice So
@candice_so
Social intranet company Bitrix Inc. is the latest to enter the cloud storage and collaboration desktop application space with the release of new apps for Windows and OS X today, taking aim at
Yesterday social media giant Facebook Inc. announced it is acquiring instant messaging app WhatsApp Inc. in a deal totalling US$19 billion - the sum of $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash,
Citrix Systems has launched Podio Chat, a messaging app combining instant messaging, video and audio chat designed as a mobile solution to help dispersed teams have ad hoc conversations to assist in completing
Marketing gurus pushed email newsletters hard back in the days before social networking. If you believe everything you read online these days, you'd think that Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other Web 2.0 services
There is a wide spectrum of ways to create new Web sites, starting with solutions that require no coding at all, such as Weebly and WordPress, all the way to coding your Web
Published on: April 13th, 2012
Erez Zukerman
@itbusinessca
E-mail is still an important means of communication in business. In recent years, an increasing number of businesses are outsourcing their e-mail to web-based services like Google Apps for Business. In a tight
Published on: February 24th, 2012
Joseph Fieber
@itbusinessca
Digital rights watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is advising users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) not to upgrade to the next version of the instant messaging application because its features expose them to
Published on: January 5th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
The growing number of companies developing instant messaging apps competing with BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) may be forcing Research in Motion to open up its much vaunted messaging system to other mobile operating system,
Published on: March 17th, 2011
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
In business computing, some revolutions occur faster than others. After years of promise, video conferencing has finally become useful for small businesses, offering long-distance collabouration without the need to travel.Many people get their
Published on: October 6th, 2010
Curt Franklin
@itbusinessca
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