Now Balter, 38, is chief executive, and publicly held Net2Phone is at the center of what could become the next big thing on the Web--talk--just as e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging were before it.
Now Balter, 38, is CEO, and the publicly held Net2Phone is at the center of what could become the next big thing on the web--talk--just as e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging were before it.
On its website, Amesys says its "strategic nationwide interception" system can detect email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and see chat conversations on MSN instant messaging and AIM.
Google Talk (which I prefer to call g-chat) is the instant messaging service that accompanies Gmail and is singlehandedly responsible for decreasing workplace productivity by 5 to 50 percent.
Google on Wednesday released a new instant messaging and voice chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
AOL's chat-rooms, forums and instant messaging that underpin its dominance.
It has a function on it that enables users to chat, much as they would over instant messaging (IM), but via television.
Google released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
But increasingly unreliable connections to Google in recent months have hindered downloads and sharply reduced the effectiveness of instant-messaging service Google Chat, he said.
The idea is to allow gamers to chat with anyone using Microsoft's instant messaging products--in addition to allowing them to blast text messages to other gamers.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
Viewers can import their instant-messaging buddy lists and chat online with friends while watching the same programme.
Replacing the familiar iChat, Messages is an instant-messaging program with group-chat capability and a dash of text messaging mixed in.
These days, tech companies are rushing to be all-in-one providers of everything from instant messaging to email to calls to video chat, reasoning that if you offer everything in one place, consumers will have little reason to go anywhere else.
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Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype's messaging tool.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
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