Tagged: Instant Messaging
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Twitter co-founder backs Irish company News
27.01.2012 Biz Stone, co-founder of microblogging site Twitter, is investing in Irish software start-up Intercom to the amount of US$1m (€760,000), The Irish Times reports. -
Facebook launches suicide prevention tool for concerned friends News
14.12.2011 Following its launch of a suicide prevention tool for Facebook users in Ireland and the UK earlier this year, Facebook has now created a similar suicide prevention tool for... -
UK to dispatch ‘Cyber Bobbies’ to police the web News
25.11.2011 ‘Cyber Specials’ look set to be the new face of UK policing as the UK government today revealed its strategy to counter the threat of cyber crime to its stg£100bn a year online...Categories: CIO, Digital Media, Government, Internet, Security, Social Media, Software & Web Development -
RIM restores BlackBerry services News
11.10.2011 Research in Motion (RIM) has said it has restored services to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after a major fault yesterday brought down online BlackBerry... -
BlackBerry service downtime affects millions News
10.10.2011 A major fault at RIM has brought down online BlackBerry services, such as internet access and instant messaging, affecting millions of users across Europe, the Middle East and...Tags: instant messaging, Email, Internet, data centre, BBM, Mobile, Smartphone, RIM, BlackBerry, Services, -
Samsung to launch instant messaging app called ChatON News
29.08.2011 Samsung will release an app called ChatON which will offer free instant messaging over a range of smartphones, feature phones, PCs and tablets. -
Londoners employ social media in riot cleanup News
09.08.2011 Londoners are taking to social media to organise riot cleanups while police are cracking down on anyone using Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging and the like to incite violence. -
Microsoft Ireland's Jeremy Showalter on the Lync unified communications platform News
30.06.2011 Jeremy Showalter, Productivity Lead at Microsoft Ireland, spoke to Licensed Wireless News about the road map for Microsoft's unified communications platform, Lync, and how the... -
Aughinish Alumina employs all-IP network News
29.06.2011 At Aughinish Alumina, innovation is a seam that runs through everything the company does, in a continuous drive to lower costs and increase yields. The switch to an all-IP... -
OMG, FYI and LOL make it into Oxford English Dictionary News
25.03.2011 'Initialisms' used by writers of emails, text messages and instant messages - specifically, OMG, FYI and LOL - have made it into the new online edition of the Oxford English... -
Mobile Business - The biggest thing to happen to work since email News
26.03.2011 Unified communications – the set of technologies that will make the phone on your desk look like a dinosaur – will unite voice with data and make the workplace universal.Tags: Collaboration, instant messaging, Email, Videoconferencing, Video, Damovo, SMEs, Lync, Microsoft, Mobile Business -
84.2pc of Irish web users accessed social networks News
24.02.2011 The reach of social networking impacted 84.2pc of all Irish internet users in 2010, growing from 8.1pc last year, said a ComScore report on European digital trends. -
New website features online tutors for students News
15.02.2011 Students who need help with their homework can now avail of www.24-7tutorials.com, a new website that provides one-to-one online expert help in real time. -
Email's slow death - set to be replaced by social networking News
11.11.2010 By 2014, email will be surpassed by social networking as the dominant form of communication in the business world, Gartner has predicted.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, IT Management, In the Workplace, Enterprise Applications, Communications -
Microsoft launches Lync – unified comms goes to the cloud News
17.11.2010 Microsoft has announced the general availability of its next generation of unified communications Microsoft Lync, which brings a unified IM, presence, audio and video... -
Facebook Messages – will it transform future of email? News
15.11.2010 Facebook has unveiled its much anticipated new Messages system – a social inbox which it claims will enable users to better manage conversations – and an @facebook.com email... -
Microsoft’s peripheral vision News
23.09.2010 Technology giant Microsoft reveals how the humble computer mouse has changed forever. -
India gives BlackBerry 60 days before ban decision News
31.08.2010 Research In Motion (RIM) has been given a 60-day extension before the Indian government decides whether or not to ban BlackBerry services in the country.