IM Headlines – 2004 Archives
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"I have touched on the subject of security several times before in this column, but there is a little-known and growing threat lurking inside your organization—and in many cases anti-virus or firewall software is not configured to combat it."
Belfast Telegraph | 10 25 04
IM: what's the real ROI?
Instant messaging is underutilized among companies, with only 18 percent of Fortune 500 companies having deployed IM, according to a forthcoming report by technology investment research firm Nucleus Research. The reason: many companies still see IM as a toy associated with smiley-face emoticons and chat room.
Internet Week | 09 23 04
ePolicy Institute survey: companies are dropping the ball on email and IM
The ePolicy Institute's 2004 Workplace Email and Instant Messaging Survey shows that many companies are putting themselves at risk because of their email and instant messaging policies, or lack thereof.
TechRepublic | 09 01 04
Free IM is hard to beat in the enterprise
Instant messaging, which has taken the enterprise by storm in North America, is growing steadily in the rest of world, with 80 percent of companies worldwide expected to use either public or private IM networks by 2008, a market-research firm said Friday.
CRN | 06 13 04
Instant messaging more popular at work
Corporate instant messengers will double in number during the next four years, according to new research. The number of enterprise instant-messaging users will almost double in 2008 from the estimated 364 million current users, a study from Radacati Group predicts. Since IM exploded in the consumer market, several companies have been trying to tap into the trend for their corporate customers.
CNET | 06 11 04
If you can't beat IM, Join IM
Instant messaging was never invited to the communications party in the enterprise—it crashed the party, and now IT managers must find a way to control IM before the dining room table gets smashed.
Network World | 06 28 04
Experts downplay 'spim' threat
As spammers face legal action from the Can-Spam Act, they are expected to turn their efforts to sending unwanted messages via instant messaging, a technology that allows users to send messages to each other over the Internet in real time. "Spim," as experts have dubbed IM spam, affects only a small number of users today, but the problem is growing. However, exactly how much it's growing hasn't been clearly established. According to The Radicati Group, 400 million spim messages were sent in 2003. The firm projects that number to jump to 1.5 billion messages sent by the end of 2004, a growth rate triple that of traditional e-mail spam.
CNET | 04 01 04
IM spam to triple in 2004
Spam sent via instant messaging is set to become a major nuisance in 2004, with the number of IM spam messages tripling from 400 million to 1.2 billion, according to research firm the Radicati Group.
InfoWorld | 03 29 04
IM uptake update
According to the latest survey from Osterman Research, a company specializing in instant messaging issues, IM uptake continues apace at the enterprise level.
Line56 | 03 25 04
Instant Messaging for the Enteprise
Instant messaging is coming to corporate America whether IT directors want it or not. The need to control and manage this burgeoning mode of communication in the workplace is just as much a driver for adoption of enterprise instant messaging (EIM) solutions as improved worker productivity.
America's Network | 03 01 04
IM at your service
Although some people still think of instant messaging as a teenagers toy, it is fast becoming a workplace tool—one that brings risks as well as benefits.
SunHerald.com | 02 16 04
AIM 'scumware' no buddy of mine
AOL Instant Messenger users were perplexed yesterday as what appeared to be a worm spread through their buddy lists. But the program is, in fact, a commercial product.
SearchSecurity.com | 02 12 04
Are instant messenger viruses the next big threat to the network?
If a company's network is like a fortress out of some fairy tale, then the viruses, worms and Trojans out there are like the evil monsters and sorcerers trying to get in to disrupt the kingdom.
eChannelLine | 02 05 04
Traffic Cops
Firewalls are so last year. Sure, you've got to have those general-purpose traffic filters in place, but increasingly CSOs are looking toward tools that examine more specific parts of their network traffic.
CSOonline.com | 02 01 04
US suing 532 song swappers
The US music industry says it is suing 532 individuals in anti-piracy lawsuits even though it does not know their names. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says it has identified the song-swappers by the trail their computer leaves when they download illegal music.
CNN.com | 01 22 04
Instant message spam is getting more disruptive
Claudia Siegel is annoyed. As a member of the global systems team at human-resource consulting firm DBM, part of business-information provider Thompson Corp., she uses Lotus Sametime instant messaging over a VPN to do her work. When operating outside the safety of her VPN, she, like her colleagues, occasionally receives unsolicited commercial instant messages.
Internetweek.com | 01 21 04
Spam prevention to the fore
According to industry predictions, email is deemed to be useless this year and instant messaging will take over as the primary means of communication. This is a consequence of users getting disgusted with sifting through massive amounts of spam to get to the actual email thats intended for them. Instant messaging on the other hand, would save them the hassle and get the message across instantly.
Computerworld | 01 21 04
Peer-to-peer file sharing spikes despite record industry efforts
Despite the Recording Industry Association of Americas well-publicized efforts to crack down on peer-to-peer file sharing, the illegal practice spiked 14% in October and November of 2003, according to a recent study by The NPD Group.
MediaPost's Medi Daily News | 01 20 04
IM emerges from the shadows
Although instant messaging can be a convenient way to communicate at work, just as often it seems to end up as a comedy of errors: misinterpretations of tone, sending a personal message to the wrong contact and putting up with the terrible nickname of the guy in sales, aka Sultan_of_Sales, feels compelled to use.
PC World | 01 19 04
Entertainment industry hits enterprises with legal threats
Enterprises better brace for copyright infringement court battles. The music and movie industries recently sent notice to about 300 companies that they intend to sue, claiming they have evidence that employees downloaded illegally obtained content at work.
Search Security.com | 01 15 04
The long goodbye for Lotus Notes
With LotusSphere barely two weeks away, it's time once again to disinter IBM's late great Lotus Notes. Already, blogs are heating up with the latest confirmation: Notes is still dead. Too bad IBM has not gone the route of Microsoft with Windows 98, executing a planned obsolescence masked by Sun's lawsuit-mandated Java virtual machine-ectomy.
eWeek | 01 14 04
Last year's security problems may balloon in 2004
If 2003 was the worst year in the history of the computer industry for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004.
eSecurityPlanet.com | 01 14 04
Microsoft comes to the instant messaging party
Instant messaging is one of those technologies that IT managers often hate. It was developed in the flaky, insecure world of public chat rooms and has now been brought into the organization by enthusiastic users. Some managers believe that instant messaging is an unwarranted distraction to day-to-day work.
IT Director | 01 09 04
Friday file: The new language of business – Instant messenger speak
Not content to just ruin the English-speaking world from a teenager's point of view, instant messaging acronyms have decided to spill into the workplace, perhaps destined to replace buzzwords like 'synergy' as the most annoying things about corporate life.
eChannel Line | 01 08 04
Get your IM in shape: a workplace guide for 2004
Granted, like hitting the gym after a long hiatus, following a list of best practices in IM might feel awkward or downright pointless. But unlike working out, making better use of IM has immediate results—in the form of enhanced productivity. You might not lose any weight, but your business communications will become deft and flexible, and lean and mean.
Instant Messaging Planet.com | 01 02 04
