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Facebook Chat Goes XMPP, Opens to Third Party Clients
By InstantMessagingPlanet.com Staff - Published February 10, 2010
With a move to the Jabber/XMPP protocol, Facebook's chat service becomes more easily accessible to third-party Jabber clients and enables deeper AIM/Facebook integration. [more Public IM]

Microsoft Live Messenger Hits 300 Million Users
By Stuart J. Johnston - Published February 10, 2010
Worldwide use continues to grow for the software giant's venerable instant messaging platform. So what's the problem? [more Public IM]

Blogging Gives Way to Newer Social Sites
By Kenneth Corbin - Published February 3, 2010
New research from Pew finds that younger Internet users aren't interested in long-format blogs now that they can blast out status updates and micro-blogs on other social sites. [more Public IM]

Beware the Liabilities of Mobile Texting
By David Needle - Published January 25, 2010
An insurance carrier says companies should consider themselves potential targets for litigation if their employees use mobile devices carelessly. [more Enterprise IM]

Twitter Patches Hole in Flash Widget
By David Needle - Published January 22, 2010
Twitter has shut down a security hole that could have been used to take over a user's account. The security analyst who found it says the problem wasn't with Flash, but with Twitter's code. [more Security]

BlackBerry Messenger Hoax Is "the Tip of the Iceberg"
By Larry Barrett - Published January 13, 2010
McAfee says a hoax circulating among BlackBerry Messenger users is just a sign of more to come for instant messaging and social networking fans. [more Security]

A Small Business Guide to Online Collaboration
By Gerry Blackwell - Published December 29, 2009
If you're using instant messaging to hold your small business together, you might be interested in this overview of online collaboration tools that use or complement your existing IM routine. [more Public IM]

Twitter Turns a Profit?
By David Needle - Published December 22, 2009
$25 million in search partnerships may well be enough to make Twitter profitable. [more Public IM]

TwitVid Provides Real-Time Twitter Video Search
By David Needle - Published December 15, 2009
Search feature shows the latest videos added to Twitter as well as analytics. [more Public IM]

MSN China Launches Twitter-like Service
Published December 2, 2009
They don't consider it a competitor to Twitter, so what does Microsoft have in mind with this new service? [more Public IM]

Yahoo Adds Twitter to News Results
By David Needle - Published November 19, 2009
Breaking news stories now highlight relevant top Twitter feeds. [more Public IM]

Twitter and LinkedIn Link Up
By Kenneth Corbin - Published November 10, 2009
Social sites sync up to create two-way flow of communication. [more Public IM]

Dedicated Twitter Device Appears
By Michelle Megna - Published November 3, 2009
Device offers a mobile Twitter alternative for users who don't own smartphones. [more Wireless IM]

Twitter Comes to Roost at Bing
By David Needle - Published October 21, 2009
Bing adds real-time Twitter results to its arsenal; says Facebook updates to comes. [more Public IM]

Twitter Plateaus, Facebook Surges
By Kenneth Corbin - Published October 14, 2009
Latest comScore data suggests Twitter's unique visitor count has hit the skids, but its popular API could be contributing to that. [more Public IM]

Twitter Talking to Google and Microsoft?
By Kenneth Corbin - Published October 8, 2009
Unconfirmed rumors put the service in talks to license data for real-time search. [more Public IM]

SocialCast Adds Analytics to the Mix
By David Needle - Published October 6, 2009
New 'Social Business Intelligence' suite mines lurkers for intel gold. [more Enterprise IM]

Pro Sports Teams No Fans of Gametime Tweeting
Published October 2, 2009
Following the lead of the NFL and NBA, the NHL nears limiting players' use of communication devices for social media activity. [more Enterprise IM]

FaceTime Spreads Out from IM Security
By Enterprise Networking Planet Staff - Published October 1, 2009
Formerly specializing in p2p and instant messaging, the security vendor adds threats from social networking and Web 2.0 to its latest offering. [more Security]

Twitter Said Near $100M in New Funding
Published September 24, 2009
Deal would raise the value of the microblogging service to about $1 billion, according to reports. [more Public IM]

Jajah Brings Voice to Twitter
By David Needle - Published September 18, 2009
"@calls" don't reveal your phone number, and don't need anything more than a username to connect. [more Public IM]

Daily News

Network Automation Changes Vendors and Careers
Network Automation in the data center has led to IT disruption with profound implications for careers, vendors and the next tech innovation cycle.

Virtualization: Back to Early Fast Ethernet Days
With virtualization network intensive applications get offered 10 times less pipe.

Motorola to Discuss Enterprise Communications at IWCE
Motorola experts to discuss emerging technologies at the Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE).

Fluke Networks Offers new Version of OptiView Network Analyzer
Version 5.4 simplifies network and application troubleshooting across wired and wireless networks.

Lockheed and Northrop to Build Shipboard Network for Navy
Development contracts were awarded to Lockheed for $14 million and to Northrop for $17.4 million.


Market Research & Whitepapers

Clouds and Application Performance
After the initial hype about cloud computing, the latest round of vendor promises are beginning to include application performance language.

IDC Predicts a Locus of Power Shift to Cloud and Services Vendors as Enterprise Customers Look to Ride the Recovery Wave in 2010
This IDC study looks into how the economy is impacing cloud and online service providers.

Clouding Infrastructure, MIddleware and Management with Bundling
Turnkey solutions are not new. But cloud technology is adding a new twist.

Dell Oro Group Forecasts Data Center Products to Drive Future Ethernet Switch Market Growth
Widespread Substitution of 1000 Mbps to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for Server Connectivity Expected

Security high, cloud services low on enterprise data center priority list – new survey
As part of its Continuous Research Service (CRS) series of analyst notes and surveys on enterprise networking and data centers, Infonetics has published Data Center Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey.








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