Instant Messaging News & Articles

In recent times the Bitrix (news, site) intranet portal has seen action of the collaborative variety, as well as some drag and drop business process design. Now, thanks to the company's latest addition of mobile instant messaging, users of the portal can enjoy its benefits from any location.

Bitrix's (news, site) enterprise 2.0 Intranet portal gets a big upgrade to help get both the big and little messages across the company intranet through a host of collaboration tools.

Beehive (news, site) was launched in October last year to give Oracle some leverage in the booming collaboration tools market. What does its big update have to offer to make you look away from the other solutions on the market?

TeamViewer (news, site) has been updated to version 4.1, offering a host of new features to improve the ways that distributed groups can communicate, share and offer support.

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?

Yahoo!, GTalk, AIM, ICQ and MSN users on Linux, Mac or Windows computers can now, for free, perform online collaboration and Web conferencing activities with the latest release of Yuuguu.

The company has proudly announced its support for major instant messaging (IM) players for their flagship collaboration and conferencing product.

KickApps has expanded the service offering of its on-demand social media platform by partnering with Userplane to add Live Chat, instant messaging and presence awareness functionality.

Enterprise info management firm Datawatch has announced that Monarch|RMS, its hosted report mining and analytics offering, is now integrated in IBM’s DB2 Content Manager OnDemand.

Monarch|RMS enables clients to view statistics relevant to their sites from remote locations so they can make more expedient decisions about what’s working and what isn’t. It does this by converting existing reports in a given CMOD system into hosted, filterable and more pliant data.

Clients can filter data most relevant to themselves and even perform multidimensional cube (OLAP-style) analysis. And at will, they can convert reports into tables, charts, graphs or spreadsheets.

Data can also be exported to templates, spreadsheets and even presentations in XML form.

You — the tech guy! — could look like the coolest kid in the boardroom.

Discover the magic at the Datawatch website.

Everybody’s getting into the multi-platform apps game (including Google, whose Maka-Maka may make mince meat of Facebook’s piddly open apps party). Even Apple’s opening to third-party apps for its iPhone offering.

Meebo is a hosted service that actually joins platforms instead of spreading seeds onto them. And frankly, it’s past due for a little disruption.

In another move that illustrates the dynamicism of the EU CMS market, Danish Web CMS vendor Synkron has announced version 2.0 of its Via Web CMS, and less than 6 months after releasing version 1.0.

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.