IBM Goal: IM Interop Across The Board

1. IBM Goal: IM Interop Across The Board

At Lotusphere, last week, IBM for the first time pledged client support to Linux and Macintosh for its Sametime realtime communications offering.
Sametime 7.5, due this summer, also will offer users the option of free interoperability between their enterprise instant messaging (IM) networks and the public America Online, Yahoo, Google Talk and iChat IM networks.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Jan 27 2006


2. Google To Release Toolbar Upgrade Today

Google on Monday plans to release a beta of an update to the Google Toolbar for both consumers and enterprise users.
"The major direction we have taken with this version is empowering users to really personalize, configure, and customize the toolbar to the way they'd like it to be," says Sundar Pichai, Google’s project manager for client software.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Jan 30 2006


3. IBM Takes The Wraps Off A Slew Of New Collaborative Tools

IBM last week revealed a slew of tools designed to let its E-mail and collaboration applications connect with popular instant-messaging products and allow users of its software to make Internet phone calls.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Jan 30 2006


4. Small Businesses Get Four Times The Spam Of Larger Enterprises

Small companies were sent almost 50 spam emails per day per user in 2005, up from 36 in 2004. This represents four times the number that employees at large companies were sent daily on average last year (12 per user per day in 2005 versus three in 2004).

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Jan 30 2006


5. BSkyB subscriber numbers hit 8.1m

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has said subscriber numbers rose 215,000 to 8.1 million in the quarter to 31 December, up from 7.6 million a year previously.

For more on this:
- read full story from BBC News, Feb 1 2006


6. Google calls upon VoIP

Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has contracted with a Florida-based company to provide Internet telephony services for its free click-to-call service, which lets people speak with advertisers on its search results without having to pick up the phone and dial.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET news.com, Jan 31 2006


7. Good Technology hit with wireless e-mail patent suit

Visto and Good Technology are two of several companies looking to capitalize on the legal problems of RIM, which could see its popular BlackBerry service shut down from its own patent spat with NTP.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET news.com, Jan 31 2006


8. Skype Plans Boost in Audioconferencing

Skype Technologies plans to turn intimate get-togethers into block parties through an audioconferencing service that will allow for conferences with as many as 500 callers.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Jan 31 2006


9. Microsoft Amends Blog Shutdown Policies

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. says it is setting new policies on shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of Chinese officials.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Jan 31 2006


10. H&E Equipment, IncrediMail IPOs Show Gains

WASHINGTON - Construction-equipment seller H&E Equipment Services Inc. and email-software maker IncrediMail Ltd. rose in their trading debuts on the Nasdaq Stock Market Tuesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Jan 31 2006