Category: Instant Messaging

Are you interested in leaving the corporate world behind and becoming a freelancer? Is this something you have been thinking about for quite some time? Are you finally ready to pull the trigger? Although this is a big step in your life, it’s important to remember one thing: you...

When a business gets burned by a security leak for the first time, they almost always discover that an instant messaging program was used. This can come in the form of passwords being conned out of an employee, a file with a virus sent through a file transfer, or...

Overall, telecommuting continues to grow in popularity with each passing year. There are many reasons for this, including the ability to save employees time while helping employers cut back on costs. Although telecommuting calls for a different approach, both by workers and the employer, it’s full of benefits that...

When it comes to employee training, you know just how difficult it can be to keep everyone on the same page. This is particularly true if you’re training more than one person at the same time. Fortunately, with the help of technology, it’s easier than ever to train a...

You may have heard it before, but it’s worth mentioning again: instant messaging technology is one of the many places you can turn for increased business productivity. While this is available to every company, many continue to look another direction when it comes to communicating with coworkers, clients, and...

As an avid email user, you know one thing to be true: there is no way of completely stopping spam. Even if you have the right filters in place and keep your email address well guarded, you could still run into this problem at some point. IM spam may...

An effective communication strategy is more important today than ever before. This is why a growing number of companies are considering all their options, including the use of an enterprise instant messenger. However, many companies lose sight of the importance of data security. There are a variety of steps...

There is no denying the fact that telecommuting continues to grow in popularity. Here’s a telling statistic shared by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics: “On the days they worked in 2015, 24 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at...

AOL Instant Messenger, more commonly known worldwide simply as AIM, will forever be the program that gave many people their first instant messaging (IM) experience. The sounds and looks of AIM are so familiar to an entire generation, that to this day even those who stopped using the program...

AOL Instant Messenger, more commonly known as AIM, is set to shut down on December 15th. As one of the pioneering instant messaging platforms, they had a large following of tens of millions of users during its heyday in the late 90s and early 2000s. With the onset of...