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Vote for Brosix at About.com
The Best IM Clients of 2009 contest is now open over at About.com. We would love for you to vote for Brosix! We have been nominated in the following categories: Best IM Experience Best Third-Party IM Most Improved IM Best Feature: Brosix Whiteboard Developers of the Year Voting is now underway and we would appreciate [...]
Three quarters of businesses block IM
According to recent reports three quarters of businesses still block instant message use in the office place. Why? Well, among other things, if you read this blog then you would know a lot of it is due to productivity and security concerns. We here at Brosix understand those concerns and worries which is why the [...]
No Spam.
I am not a fan of spam. I never enjoyed the “meat” that my parents used to serve me when I was younger and I am not a fan of “spam” email either. Most stats I have seen shown an extraordinarily low response to spam emails yet companies persist in sending them out. Spam comments [...]
Unauthorized
It seems like virtually every week a new article comes out about unauthorized web usage. Originally it was email that was the problem, now it is “web 2.0″ sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I have spoken at length about the distractions provided by these different sources and just today I stumbled across yet another [...]
Have a great Instant Messaging story? Please share.
Happy Friday everyone. I have had a great week, despite the unusually cold weather where I live, and I hope you have as well. I wanted to highlight a few things really quickly. The About.com Best IM Clients contest is still open for nominations through next Monday and we would appreciate your support in this [...]
The Future of IM
According to a study by the Radicati Group (Source) instant message accounts will grow from 1.8 billion to 3.7 billion over the next four years. While this does not mean 3.7 billion unique individuals on Instant Messenger, it does represent the continued radical growth of IM software. Standard IM will continue to be the biggest [...]
The Relevance of Instant Messenger
One example of the compelling nature of instant messenger is how long it has remained popular in the computing/Internet world. The only other computerized messaging technique that has shown such an enduring popularity is e-mail, which is now deeply ingrained in virtually every corporate culture. Yet IM remains something of a taboo at times. Yet [...]
Person to person.
In the olden days of instant messenger the conversation was text only. Almost everyone has a story that they can share of how a text-based conversation was misinterpreted. In my own life I have had a number of jokes fall flat because text does not have the richness of voice or face to face communication. [...]
Authenticity and encryption.
Authenticity is one of the buzzwords in just about any business consultant’s manual but when it comes to Brosix it is vitally important. One of the powerful features of Brosix is that when you create a network you can then authenticate all of the users which gives you control over the buddy lists within the [...]
Whiteboards and other features.
We have some great posts in recent weeks that outline the numerous features that Brosix provides which make it the best – if you ask me – enterprise instant message program out there. Beyond the obvious features that make instant messaging so popular such as instant communication, fast file sharing, etc. we have outlined the [...]
