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.
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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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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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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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.
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Three recent battles over Net technologies -- the DNS, instant messaging, and Web page annotations -- illustrate the point.
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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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.
Fast Data collects data about what customers on the phone are currently doing, or how they have recently interacted with the company in other various channels, including in-branch, or on the web via self-service features, instant messaging and email.
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.
Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
It is the Goliath of the Web, with search, e-mail, e-commerce, instant messaging, classified ads, and even its own virtual planet with Google Earth -- all adding up to one mega-market cap.
Like other products in the MimoMonitors.com line of USB mini-monitors, the Mimo Magic Touch also allows users to de-clutter their crowded, primary desktop monitor and offload popular business applications such as web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Skype, and instant messaging.
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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.
Looking to shed weight and beef up a sleek new image as a Web-based media company, AOL is attempting to sell off its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging system ICQ.
Office 365 offers Office Web Apps plus access to hosted versions of Outlook e-mail, Sharepoint collaboration, and Lync instant messaging (formerly Office Communicator), as well as the ability to download the full version of Office 2010 Professional Plus.
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