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Yahoo Embedding IM within Email

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February 13th 2007
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Yahoo has announced a new feature which provides customers with instant messaging features inside of their email account. The feature comes as a result of web-savvy users and those who spend a lot of time on the Internet going back and forth between their email accounts and instant messaging. Those [...] more...

Yahoo, Microsoft Connect IM Systems

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July 14th 2006
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A Times Online report has announced that Yahoo and Microsoft are forming an alliance that will allow users to send instant messages across their respective IM systems. Eventually, the communications platform will also allow users to make voice calls using VoIP technology. The joint platform was launched in beta today [...] more...

Yahoo Upgrades Instant Messenger Service

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June 21st 2006
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Following on the heels of Microsoft’s new Internet messaging service launched on Monday, Yahoo has announced its own enhanced online instant messenger. According to AFP, Yahoo Messenger with Voice can be personalized with plug-ins that enable users to easily perform various web tasks. One such plug-in, dubbed Event Finder, allows [...] more...

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Live Messenger

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June 20th 2006
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In its continuing effort to reap a larger share of online advertising revenue, Microsoft launched its newly branded instant messaging system, Windows Live Messenger, on Monday. Messenger joins Microsoft’s suite of Windows Live services, which includes e-mail, search, mapping and social networking, which as a whole aim to unite the company’s [...] more...

AIM Turns Professional

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February 21st 2006
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AOL has partnered with business software developer WebEx Communications Inc. to develop a business version of AOL Instant messenger called AIM Pro. Enhanced security features like encryption will let workers communicate with each other privately. In addition to secure chat, AIM Pro will also feature VoIP conference calling, online meetings, [...] more...

A History of Lead Generation

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January 25th 2006
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Robin Stanton

It used to be that a publisher would not touch a lead generation campaign with a ten-foot pole. They felt they were giving away free advertising and there was money to be made only with CPM (cost-per-impression) and CPC (cost-per-click) campaigns. Then something happened, a few publishers realized they could [...] more...

IMs Play Together with IBM’s Lotus Sametime

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January 24th 2006
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IBM’s Lotus division experienced a surge in growth in 2005. To capitalize on it, the company’s releasing a new version of Lotus Sametime, their real-time business IM application. Along with the new Sametime 7.5, IBM has announced partnerships with AOL, Yahoo, and Google that will allow IBM’s 15 million Sametime [...] more...

Murdoch Issues Challenge to Yahoo and MSN

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January 12th 2006
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NewsCorp chief Rupert Murdoch has finally revealed his intentions for MySpace, arguably the most popular social-networking site on the web. Alleging that the portal models of Yahoo and MSN are becoming increasingly obsolete, Murdoch revealed his plan to have MySpace challenge those venerable sites for market share by offering a revamped [...] more...


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