Empowered uses iMessage, a chat function, to encourage conversations with students and career counselors.

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It has a function on it that enables users to chat, much as they would over instant messaging (IM), but via television.

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SAP's tool, called Gravity, lets users design business processes in Wave, while Novell's Pulse, a stand-alone product that will be released in 2010, will add security features, an improved chat function and live editing of Microsoft Office documents.

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