It is true that the combined firm would dominate the markets for instant messaging and web-based e-mail, but neither is lucrative.
But a person familiar with the matter said the patents relate to fundamental Internet technologies, including email, instant messaging, Web browsing, Web search, online advertising, mobile technology and e-commerce.
Over the past couple of years, IBM has been working on technology for collaboration that include not just email but instant messaging, web meetings, blogs, wikis, Facebook-type communities and Twitter-like activity streams.
With one click Answers.com delivers instant information, not Web links, laid out cleanly on one page.
Three recent battles over Net technologies -- the DNS, instant messaging, and Web page annotations -- illustrate the point.
True to anything that becomes an instant hit on the web, the ad has already spawned a number of online spoofs.
"Your Video Library" feature that gives iPhone and iPod touch customers access to purchases and rentals from Amazon Instant Video on the web.
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The network published a partial transcript of the instant messages on its Web site but did not quote the exchanges in which it said the congressman and the high school student apparently had orgasms.
Government agents routinely obtain customer records from these firms, detailing the telephone numbers dialed, text messages, emails and instant messages sent, web pages browsed, the queries submitted to search engines, and of course, huge amounts of geolocation data, detailing exactly where an individual was located at a particular date and time.
But Twitter would give the Redmond giant instant grasp of a flourishing Web communication destination, and credibility in tech circles.
The Web is an instant medium, yet on HP's site the old organization chart still stands, months after she threw it out.
On today's Internet, traffic flows in millions of small streams, consisting mostly of simple communications like e-mail, text-based Web pages and instant messages.
Surveys show over and over there's simply no interest in email, web browsing, instant messaging or other online activities as discrete functions on the TV.
Millions of people use Yahoo every day for e-mail, instant messaging, scheduling, Web photo albums, personal home pages, shopping, bill paying, games, auctions and more.
They are answering email, surfing the web, receiving instant messages, watching CNN, listening to their editor yell at them and, yes, trying to write down what you are saying.
Applications that have been or are being moved to the cloud include email and Web services (77%), storage (74%) and collaboration solutions such as Web conferencing and instant messaging (72%).
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The aim is to provide users with an instant way of accessing the web without the hassle and delay of a heavyweight operating system like Windows or Macintosh OS X.
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It provides for secure and virtually anywhere access to email, calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing and file sharing, allowing employees to work on the go, on nearly any device.
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They enable instant access to thousands of Web-enabled applications.
The Internet also helps Dell provide better and cheaper technical support with technology that allows buyers to log on to a Web site for instant answers and software fixes (see box, opposite).
These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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As a result, operators can more effectively ensure a carrier-grade quality of experience for end users of High Definition voice and video, Web conferencing, instant messaging and presence, and other broadband-intensive mobile applications that go beyond the reliability of Skype, Apple FaceTime and other services suited for consumers but inadequate for the rigors of enterprise use.
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And while we're at it, ASUS' WebStorage also offers instant photo uploads, Microsoft Office Web Apps integration (so you can edit Office documents online using the official interface) and file collaboration.
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They can use that to write papers, explore the Web, play games and instant message their friends.
The unit, which is meant to be used as a fully-functioning PC, will have wireless capability that incorporates instant messaging, paging functionality, and Web browsing.
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In this world of instant publishing and the always-connected mobile web, Flip was artifact of an earlier time.
Launching at the same time as the station is EpixHD, a Web site where viewers will have instant access to 400 movies.
Thanks to cheap Web cams and video-friendly instant messaging software, such as Apple 's iChat, keeping in touch via video is easier than ever.
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