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Tag: instant messaging
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Salesforce Wants Marketing, Sales and Services Leaders Living in a Slack-First World
Salesforce has made the first product announcements that incorporate capabilities from its $27 billion Slack acquisition.
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6 Ways Real-Time Chat Apps Fail for Organizations
Real-time chat apps can be a boon for organizational productivity, but nothing's perfect. We share some signs your chat tool may be failing.
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5 Common Reasons Collaboration Tools Fail
Collaboration tools are supposed to increase communication and productivity but what happens when they don't? Here are the 5 most common failures.
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Discussion Point: Will We Still Use Twitter in 10 Years?
Anybody remember Pointcast? Once the software app of the moment, it was quickly tossed into the rubbish bin of technology history. That brings us to Twitter, one of the apps du jour. It's amazing how swiftly it has penetrated into the public consciousness.
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Fleep Looks to Take on Skype with Hybrid Email Chat Tool
There’s a new communication service in town that is designed to make email and instant messaging more interconnected. Introducing Fleep Since the world has become a more digitally connected it has changed the way people communicate.
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Skype, Microsoft Lync Connection Goes Live
Skype and Microsoft Lync are now connected, and it means those who use the Microsoft communications network can now reach out to a wider audience of Skype users. Connected, but Not Integrated Microsoft bought Skype in 2011, and though the app has been available on all the major OSs,
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Microsoft Brings Google Chat to Outlook.com, SkyDrive
Launch a Gchat session right from an Outlook.com email message with the Google contacts integration. Google's instant messaging service has been integrated into the Microsoft universe, at least when it comes to the Web based Outlook.com and the cloud based SkyDrive storage app. Stuck on Gmail Outlook.com may have
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Podio Platform Improves Social Capabilities with IM, Audio, Video Chat
Citrix has announced two new chat functions that are designed to improve the functionality of the Podio project management platform.
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Google Babble? Rumors Say Google Will Unify Messaging Services
While Google itself is remaining mum on the topic, rumors are swirling around the Internet to the effect that the technology giant is planning to unify all of its disparate messaging services on a single platform that it will call Babble. According to a widely quoted report in Geek.
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Microsoft Announces End of Messenger With a Move to Skype
Questions over the future of a world where Messenger and Skype live side by side and are owned by the same company were finally resolved today. Microsoft has announced that it’s knocking Messenger on the head with Skype. Skype Plans In fairness this is not exactly unexpected.
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Google Buys User Engagement Firm Meebo
Google is buying Meebo, a company that focuses on user engagement. The purchase will add the popular Meebo Bar -- plus an engineering team -- to Google’s roster. In a statement about the acquisition, Google cited “the Meebo team’s expertise in social publisher tools,” adding that it was “always
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New Unified Communications Solution After Skype's Business
Goober Networks (news, site), a Unified Communications solutions provider, has a new beta out that includes multi-protocol IM, VoIP to landlines and cellphones and 4-way video conferencing calls to both PC and Mac desktops. (goober says the final public release of goober 3.
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Mobile Instant Messaging Added to Bitrix Intranet Portal
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
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Bitrix Releases Intranet Portal 8, Focuses on Collaboration, Culture
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. It's Getting Easier to Talk Business By version eight of an enterprise product, you think that
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