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Article | 27/03/2012 Alcatel-Lucent lets iPads go from IM to voice and video without hanging up
Alcatel-Lucent's OpenTouch Conversation software will allow enterprise users to switch among different ways of communicating -- including instant mess...
Article | 17/03/2012 Microsoft restores access to phones that couldn't access Skype
Microsoft has fixed a bug that made it impossible for about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones to log into the popular IM, VoIP and video-confer...
Article | 15/03/2012 Google restores interoperability with AOL AIM
Google and AOL have restored the interoperability between their two instant messaging (IM) networks, a little over two weeks after it was temporarily ...
Article | 14/03/2012 Some Skype-certified phones failing to log into the service
Microsoft is investigating reports that about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones are having trouble logging into the IM, VoIP and video-conferen...
Article | 8/03/2012 Spam leads Google to disable interop of its IM network with AOL AIM
AOL hopes to roll out a fix soon to a spam surge in its AIM service targeting Google IM users, a situation that prompted Google to temporarily shut do...
Article | 1/03/2012 Skype launches GroupMe for Windows Phones
Skype this week launched the GroupMe app for Windows Phone, following its August acquisition of the tool that enables free, real-time group texting. ...
Article | 4/02/2012 Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks
Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non...
Article | 19/01/2012 Google adds WebRTC to Chrome for in-browser voice, video chat
Google has built the WebRTC technology into a test version of Chrome to let the browser run voice and video chat applications within the browser inter...
Article | 3/12/2011 Yahoo Messenger flaw enables spamming through other people's status messages
An unpatched Yahoo Messenger vulnerability that allows attackers to change people's status messages and possibly perform other unauthorized actions ca...
Article | 1/12/2011 Vodafone buys unified communication consultant Bluefish
Vodafone's Global Enterprise is strengthening its professional services arm by acquiring British consultant Bluefish Communications, which will form t...
Article | 27/10/2011 RIM faces possible class action suit over BlackBerry outages
Research In Motion faces a possible class action lawsuit over recent outages in its BlackBerry services earlier this month, and a trademark infringeme...
Article | 21/09/2011 Lync not enterprise-ready, claims Microsoft ISV-turned-rival
A gap between what Microsoft promises with Lync's telephony and what it delivers makes Lync a poor choice as an IP PBX replacement for large organizat...
Article | 25/08/2011 MSN China to integrate services with China's Renren
Microsoft is integrating its MSN platform with China's social networking site Renren in a move that could help it reach more of the country's Internet...
Article | 24/08/2011 Skype buys GroupMe to take on Google+ huddles
Skype announced that it is acquiring GroupMe for an undisclosed sum. Acquiring the young mobile group messaging service expands Skype's arsenal of com...
Article | 24/08/2011 4 reasons to use GroupMe for work
Skype, which Microsoft bought in May, said Monday it will buy the group messaging service GroupMe. GroupMe, created last year at the Techcrunch Disrup...

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