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A CNET survey in June 2008 found that half of the instant messaging services provide full encryption:
We found that only half of the services provide complete encryption: AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, and Skype do. To their credit, not one service says it keeps logs of the content of users’ communications (a [...]

I’m just testing a new web analytics approach: Woopra
What is Woopra?
Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it’s free!

Woopra is an amazing tool to see live stats of your blog or small webpage, you can see live visitors, click streams. Woopra show you in [...]

amazon.com is down more than 30 minutes.

it is amazing how fast to get current web news from twitter.
a simple search on tweetscan
shows the Robert Svihla aka eurotransient first reported amazon.com down at 13:24 PST (17:24 GMT).
Digg reported the downtime about 17:25 GMT (10 minutes later).
At Amazon.com or any blogs found not background information.
Now more than [...]

According to a recent study of TNS Technology the mobile instant message is set to cannibalise SMS (texting) and eventually email from PC.
The TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) study has found that once mobile users adopt MIM (mobile instant message) it overtakes other messaging tools.
Study results:
* 8% of all mobile users globally use MIM, [...]

Tomi Ahonen dissecting on his communities_dominate.blogs.com the latest “Asia-Pacific wide survey of 16,000 consumers in 29 countries by TNS Global”, May 2008.

Percent
No. of People
Notes

SMS
88%
1.23B
More than the total number of email (or IM Instant Messaging) on the internet worldwide

Games
71%
994M
close to 1B

Camera
61%
854M
98% of those who have a cameraphone, use the camera

MMS
47%
672M
These numbers are encouraging. whether or not [...]

Meebo provides support for multiple IM protocols.
Meebo has always been an attractive alternative for the traditional instant messaging clients.
It can be accessed straight from the browser, without the need of installing anything. On the other hand, downloadable applications usually connect to a single network and, even if there are programs that come with multiple networks [...]