I made a post here the other day about a recent Cnet survey which was conducted to see which Instant Message Service available was the most secure. Services surveyed included AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Facebook Chat, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger, and Skype. The survey found that Skype is the most secure … Read more
One of the easiest ways of staying in touch online for almost twelve years has been via Instant Message Services. ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, being released in November 1996. How secure are IM services though? With law enforcement agencies, ISPs, and ‘others’ able to ‘listen in’, how private are your messages? … Read more
Marketing Pilgrim reports that Ebay is considering selling Skype, possibly to Google! Quoting an article in The Financial Times, the site reports that although the company is growing and showing good returns, it doesn’t fit with Ebay’s core business model. The most likely buyer, according to the ‘buzz’, is Google, because it would fit with … Read more
