You may not be in a global organization but telephone, email, telepresence and real-time messaging have allowed the under-one-roof workplace to diffuse into a loosely-joined workforce.
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Although there have been malicious bots around for some time instant messaging, security firm IMLogic believes that this is the first time someone has tried to use bot code to help spread a worm around an IM network by pretending to be a legitimate user.
But youth are really flocking to Snapchat, WhatsApp, GroupMe and Kik, real-time, messaging services that were born mobile, offer more privacy and are proactively partnering with telcos.
These include restrictions over how much time is spent on instant messaging services.
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More political messaging at election time helps create a better informed democracy.
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What if your claims or call center agent could seamlessly use real-time communication capabilities like instant messaging and video sharing or productivity features like mail-merge right inside of CRM?
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Others require "virtual face time" via email, instant messaging or calls.
The rest of the time is divided fairly evenly between Facebook messaging and posting updates.
In the age of Twitter and Facebook, when word travels at the speed of instant messaging, there is no time to gather your thoughts.
Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc. held discussions more than a year ago about Apple possibly making a strategic investment in the short-messaging service, at a time when many technology giants were playing catch-up in social media.
After three years of mudslinging, the three giants that control 95% of the instant-messaging market-- AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people ) with 180 million users, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) with 75 million and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), 20 million--still refuse to let their customers contact those in rival camps.
To me, this is exponential change for a new, real-time generation, weaned on tweets and instant messaging.
WhatsApp Messenger for BlackBerry 10 provides a high quality messaging experience that utilizes real-time push notifications to alert you when you receive messages- even when the screen is locked.
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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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You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
The company would look foolish trying to qualify or retreat from the public defense they have so spiritedly mounted while, at the same time, any settlement would likely vitiate the intensive messaging.
Right now, despite the great migration of time and money to the Internet, almost all brand messaging occurs in traditional media, especially TV.
In addition to full telepresence interoperability, Cisco Cius offers HD video streaming and real-time video, multi-party conferencing, email, messaging, browsing, and the ability to produce, edit and share content stored locally or centrally in the cloud.
Curiously, individual customers turn out greatly to prefer paying a single fee for, say, unlimited text-messaging or 90 hours of telephone talk-time, rather than paying for each item, one at a time even though that might be a cheaper option.
The real-time chat service is widely seen as an answer to the mobile messaging apps becoming wildly popular among young smartphone users.
Some of the most interesting speculation has centered around iChat, Apple's instant-messaging client that lets users send messages using their buddy lists from AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
AOL's dominance in instant messaging has been a major concern of regulators looking at the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner.
Text messaging has been spruced up as well, allowing multiple recipients to be added at the same time when sending a message, automatically saving unsent texts as drafts and letting users edit received messages before forwarding them.
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For the uninitiated, Snapchat is a photo-messaging service that allows you to send photos that will self-destruct after a designated length of time.
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