Thomson Reuters revises IM service in legal battle

Thomson Reuters Corp. has overhauled its instant messaging service to avoid a communications breakdown that threatened to alienate brokerages and banks that rely on the system to complete stock trades and exchange other sensitive information.

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Poll: IMs Help Teens Avoid Embarrassment

Sure, instant messaging is fast and efficient. For many teenagers, it's also a great way to avoid those OMG moments — that's "omigod" — of mortifying face-to-face confrontations.

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Poll: 'IM-ing' Divides Teens, Adults

Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists. They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens and adults. And the division is wide, says an AP-AOL survey on how Americans use or snub those Internet bursts of gossip, happy date-making and teen tragedies that young people exchange by the hour while supposedly doing homework.

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Study claims E-mail to die out by 2020 thanks to Texting, IM, and Social Networking Sites. What do you think?

I’ve come across 13 stories in as many hours on the upcoming demise of e-mail over the next ten years at the hands of social networking sites, texting and instant messaging.

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PC World article cites a Microsoft statement that the company does not offer Windows Live Messenger to Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea. Google confirmed confirmed banning the use of Google Talk and Google Maps in Sudan, while AOL did not confirm their policy.

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We'll say it right off the bat: what the hell took Microsoft so long? Years after Yahoo and Google integrated web IM features into their free webmail services (Yahoo Messenger in Yahoo Mail and Gtalk in Gmail, respectively), Redmond is finally enabling users to log into their H …

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"It's the end of instant messaging as we know it.

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By Mark Rejhon -- As I am a hearing impaired individual, there are several benefits of the BlackBerry for the Deaf and for Hard Of Hearing. Most deaf users often go for the cheaper Hiptop/Sidekick because of instant messaging and better color screen.

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A guest post by Sarah Milstein on five ways to use Twitter, an increasingly popular online messaging service, at work.

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An Open Letter to Anyone Who Posts Content on the Internet

Dear User: An admittedly innocuous post on a site I frequent brings me your way today.

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Boy, is the boss going to hate this study! In work done by Ohio State University and the University of California, Internet Messaging (IM) has been found NOT be a plaything and a waster of employee time.

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Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant messaging software, a new study suggests.

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The Cobalt is a response to the discerning public need for the next convergence device to blend elegance with simplicity and portability. The Cobalt's round OLED touch screen allows easy access to all its features with a simple flick of the thumb left, right, up or down.

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Instant Messaging for Introverts Having experimented with a variety of approaches to instant messaging (as well as its close relative Twitter) and having done a considerable amount of introspection, I'm inclined to think that my personality type is fundamentally ill-suited to in …

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Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.

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There are those applications that Facebook leaves to the developers, and others that Facebook feel are integral to the operations of its core functions on its growing social network.

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There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop - multiheaded clients and websites that allow users to access all of the major instant messaging platforms in one place.

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Many articles have been written about the differences between face-to-face communication and the variety of text-based communication found on the Internet.

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Random Status Messages

I decided to start a collection of random status messages people have set on their IM:

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Valentine love and a new feature coming your way soon!

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The web IM and chat company, Meebo, just rolled out some very interesting new features. First off, they have introduced a developer API for their Meebo Rooms product. This will allow people to integrate a Meebo Room into their own website.

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The most important aspect of online social shopping for many people is the instant feedback you get from your trusted buddies while instant messaging! That's Bunnybot's special sauce!

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A Panorama (UK current affairs show) programme on UK TV tonight is looking at the grooming of youngsters online.

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Shop 'n Share in real-time over at meebo.com

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Starting next week and over the next few months, several United States airlines will test Internet service on their planes.

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From the beginning, Google has been committed to open standards and interoperation for instant messaging. So when our friends at AOL agreed to let Gmail users talk to users on their network, we jumped at the chance.

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With more holiday shopping done online this year, it pays to have your IM buddies closer than your credit card.

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