Im News & Articles

Digsby (news, site) adds yet more features to its packed, grid-computing supported, multiple-social-media application.

German developer Open-Xchange has teamed up with Romanian outfit Rack-Soft. The combination of both companies' products offer a total communication solution with telephone, fax, instant messaging integrated with e-mail, contacts, calendar and task information.

Did they miss anything -- perhaps a psychic hotline?

With unified communications picking up a lot of press as companies try to keep their employees in contact via the most suitable means, competition is increasing for the major players like Cisco.

Smaller outfits will increasingly group together as these two have done. The combined package is available as an on-premise or as-a-service and they have worked with SaaS expert Parallels to simplify deployment for new users.

Rack-Soft brings its hosted PBX and the latest version of VoipNow (2.0.3), which has just added local time zone support to make handling international calls easier, while Open-Xchange provides the e-mail and collaboration components. 

Open-Xchange offers an AJAX e-mail app.

With Open-Xchange's Community Edition available free for non-commercial use, a trial version and a range of Appliance, Server and Hosting editions, there's bound to be something for everyone.

With more and more business being done over social networks, keeping track can be a nightmare. Meet Digsby, a desktop product to keep all your contacts in one place.

Google recently announced a much-anticipated addition to the Google Talk service. In addition to being able to sent text instant messages from within the Google Mail system, users can now conduct voice and video chats — all from within the browser.

After users download a Google-provided plugin, they will see “Video and More” in the conventional chat window. Other IM systems, such as MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Chat, have had voice/video capabilities, but Google just added the feature. However, is this product a “Skype killer” like some are saying?

iSkoot, a provider of mobile VoIP solutions, announced its acquisition of Social.IM, a social network IM client. This step positions iSkoot to grow beyond mobile VoIP and “create a compelling and valuable consumer solution” in the days of growing demand for integrations between mobile industry and online social media.

Packt, the publisher of many a useful CMS book, announces an official quest for “The Best Open Source CMS” and an according, annual set of prizes around the “Packt Open Source CMS” yearly winners.