Instant messaging device sets you free from your PC

If a family member often ties up the household computer chatting with friends using instant messaging, Motorola has just the thing to get the chatterer away from the keyboard and maintain family peace.
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Microsoft to Link Enterprise Instant Messaging Server With Rival Networks

Graham Lawlor, chairman of the New York-based Financial Services Instant Messaging Association, which represents seven Wall Street financial firms working to promote IM standards, called the LCS release "the most significant announcement in the enterprise IM industry since there was such an industry."

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Instant Message Deal Leaves Consumers Out in the Cold

The big three of instant messaging, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo announced a deal today that will allow their instant messaging systems to interact by early 2005.
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2004 Survey on Workplace E-Mail and IM Reveals Unmanaged Risks; 55% of Companies Lack E-Mail Retention Policies, 20% Have Had E-Mail Subpoenaed

One in five U.S. companies (20%) has had employee e-mail subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation, up from 14% in 2003. Another 13% have battled workplace lawsuits triggered by employee e-mail. Yet, in spite of the fact that e-mail and instant messages (IM) are a primary source of evidence--the electronic equivalent of DNA evidence--many employers remain largely unprepared to manage e-mail and instant messaging risks.