items tagged with Instant messaging
Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-04-28 19:59:36
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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Forget texting, forget emails: MIM's the way to go
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2008-04-28 15:05:51
Market research firm TNS Technology is predicting that mobile instant messaging (MIM) will overtake text messaging and possibly PC-based e-mail to become the primary means of non-voice communication between individuals.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2008-04-28 15:05:51
Market research firm TNS Technology is predicting that mobile instant messaging (MIM) will overtake text messaging and possibly PC-based e-mail to become the primary means of non-voice communication between individuals.
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Help! I’m addicted to the Internet - are you?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-24 07:33:35
Internet addiction is a real disorder, with its incidence rising across the world, with the most interesting research coming from South Korea, although US ‘case descriptions are remarkably similar’ according to a new report.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-24 07:33:35
Internet addiction is a real disorder, with its incidence rising across the world, with the most interesting research coming from South Korea, although US ‘case descriptions are remarkably similar’ according to a new report.
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AVG 8.0 spotlights web threats
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-02-27 01:15:22
A key feature of AVG Internet Security 8.0 is realtime protection against dodgy or compromised web sites. The new security package is due to be released today and has some key advantages over its competitors according to its developers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-02-27 01:15:22
A key feature of AVG Internet Security 8.0 is realtime protection against dodgy or compromised web sites. The new security package is due to be released today and has some key advantages over its competitors according to its developers.
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Google Talkabout speaks to me with new chat bots
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-12-19 23:27:50
Remember those sci-fi movies and books where humans and interplanetary aliens interact and speak to each other using electronic helmet translating devices? If not, then maybe you're too young but anyway Google has taken the first step towards making on the fly real-time dual-language conversations a reality.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-12-19 23:27:50
Remember those sci-fi movies and books where humans and interplanetary aliens interact and speak to each other using electronic helmet translating devices? If not, then maybe you're too young but anyway Google has taken the first step towards making on the fly real-time dual-language conversations a reality.
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Vodafone takes another swipe 3's X Series
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2007-12-16 18:36:45
Vodafone is offering its mobile customers unlimited access to selected social networking, email and IM sites in what appears to be its latest response to 3's X-Series offerings.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2007-12-16 18:36:45
Vodafone is offering its mobile customers unlimited access to selected social networking, email and IM sites in what appears to be its latest response to 3's X-Series offerings.
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Vodafone's "unlimited" mobile data offer comes with a big catch
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-12-16 17:44:30
he headline on the press release was "Vodafone customers get unlimited data access on mobile", but that's not exactly what you get.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-12-16 17:44:30
he headline on the press release was "Vodafone customers get unlimited data access on mobile", but that's not exactly what you get.
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Flirty bot passes for human
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-12-10 19:41:15
New software designed to conduct flirtatious conversations is good enough to fool people into thinking they are chatting with a human, a security company has warned.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-12-10 19:41:15
New software designed to conduct flirtatious conversations is good enough to fool people into thinking they are chatting with a human, a security company has warned.
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In-flight Internet coming to US skies again – at last
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-12-07 21:49:56
Boeing’s Connexion in-flight broadband service was so good people were even able to use Skype for voice calls, but as the service was too expensive to operate it was shut down in mid 2006. Now, a form of in-flight Internet is coming back to US skies in December 07, with real web access finally coming to more US airlines in 2008.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-12-07 21:49:56
Boeing’s Connexion in-flight broadband service was so good people were even able to use Skype for voice calls, but as the service was too expensive to operate it was shut down in mid 2006. Now, a form of in-flight Internet is coming back to US skies in December 07, with real web access finally coming to more US airlines in 2008.
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A Microsoft LifeCam or a Logitech Quickcam?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-11-15 18:34:07
Microsoft has launched two new LifeCams for video conferencing – but as there’s no compatibility with Skype’s new high quality video, and as Windows Live Messenger doesn’t yet offer it, is it worth buying a Microsoft LifeCam?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-11-15 18:34:07
Microsoft has launched two new LifeCams for video conferencing – but as there’s no compatibility with Skype’s new high quality video, and as Windows Live Messenger doesn’t yet offer it, is it worth buying a Microsoft LifeCam?
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Software turns GPS phone into 'emergency beacon'
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-11-08 16:06:41
A new application for GPS smartphones can report the user's location when things go wrong.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2007-11-08 16:06:41
A new application for GPS smartphones can report the user's location when things go wrong.
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Joost taps meebo for instant messaging
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-11-06 19:04:57
Joost, the global TV distribution network backed by Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström, has signed up instant messaging web site meebo to provide IM functionality for Joost users.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-11-06 19:04:57
Joost, the global TV distribution network backed by Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström, has signed up instant messaging web site meebo to provide IM functionality for Joost users.
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Apple gives its blessing to third-party iPhone apps
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-10-17 15:43:23
Apple plans to release a software development kit for the iPhone and iPod touch in February 2008.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-10-17 15:43:23
Apple plans to release a software development kit for the iPhone and iPod touch in February 2008.
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Microsoft's unified communications blitz
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-10-17 03:02:10
A raft of new hardware and software will - Microsoft hopes - change the way people communicate at work.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-10-17 03:02:10
A raft of new hardware and software will - Microsoft hopes - change the way people communicate at work.
Read More About Microsoft's Unified Communications Blitz...
Check Point offers Skype 3.5 blocker
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Network Security
2007-09-23 21:38:24
Security vendor Check Point has added to its gateway products the ability to block Skype 3.5 traffic.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Network Security
2007-09-23 21:38:24
Security vendor Check Point has added to its gateway products the ability to block Skype 3.5 traffic.
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Smile, smiley – you’re 25 years old :-)
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-09-20 02:45:04
Back in 1982, presumably on a green screen terminal, Prof. Scott E Fahlman
was the first in the PC era to re-introduce us all to the smiley, with
plenty of variations since then. Now 25 years old, a new Smiley Award
has been created for CMU students in its honour, mixed in with a little
controversy over the smiley's true age.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-09-20 02:45:04
Back in 1982, presumably on a green screen terminal, Prof. Scott E Fahlman
was the first in the PC era to re-introduce us all to the smiley, with
plenty of variations since then. Now 25 years old, a new Smiley Award
has been created for CMU students in its honour, mixed in with a little
controversy over the smiley's true age.Read More About Smile, Smiley – You’Re 25 Years Old :-)...
Quiet September for Microsoft patches
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-09-12 17:27:00
After several successive Patch Tuesdays saw the arrival of multiple critical updates, the September crop was relatively low key. Just one 'critical' vulnerability was addressed, and that was in a non-current version of Windows.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-09-12 17:27:00
After several successive Patch Tuesdays saw the arrival of multiple critical updates, the September crop was relatively low key. Just one 'critical' vulnerability was addressed, and that was in a non-current version of Windows.
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Native IM client for iPhone
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-08-28 16:45:15
Apart from the soldered-in battery, one of the more frequent complaints about the iPhone is its lack of an instant messaging client.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-08-28 16:45:15
Apart from the soldered-in battery, one of the more frequent complaints about the iPhone is its lack of an instant messaging client.
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Yahoo merges mail and IM, blends SMS
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-08-26 21:55:02
The new version of Yahoo's web mail service delivers a more unified view of personal communication, aligning mail, instant messaging and - in some geographies - SMS.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-08-26 21:55:02
The new version of Yahoo's web mail service delivers a more unified view of personal communication, aligning mail, instant messaging and - in some geographies - SMS.
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Yahoo Messenger vulnerable, says McAfee
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-08-16 16:20:55
Security researchers at McAfee's Avert Labs have confirmed a new vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-08-16 16:20:55
Security researchers at McAfee's Avert Labs have confirmed a new vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger.
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