AOL contends that the development and testing of an instant messaging standard will take over a year.
So although hospitals protested that there weren't enough intensivists to go around, and that the cost could be prohibitive, Pronovost's idea effectively became an instant national standard.
For instance, I recently returned to our hallowed playing fields to watch a Saturday gridiron bone-cruncher and was pleased as punch to see the new scoreboard with all the features of true mass-market prosperity: instant replay, standard Big 10 exclamations ("DE-fense," "Aw, SHUCKS") and canned music classics like the theme from "Jaws".
Yahoo! yhoo, Excite@Home athm, Microsoft's msft MSN, Prodigy prgy, AT&T t, Phone.com phcm and other companies this week banded together under the name IMUnifed to promote a single instant messaging standard, hoping they have a fighting chance collectively in the competition with America Online aol, which owns and operates the popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ.
Odigo has been a catalyst in a battle with America Online over instant-messaging standards.
Skype is a multipurpose client that provides voice communication features as well as standard instant messaging features, such as text messages and file transfers.
Certainly better than standard instant, and even the drip from down the street (a respectable café but not their best batch, it must be said).
Citrix today added a new real-time chat feature to its Podio social business platform that allows users to discuss projects, tasks, documents and other items by using standard instant messages, as well as audio and video chats.
Sudden's brew had some things in common with the standard instant: a super-sweet aroma and very up-front flavor that doesn't linger — that'd be the lack of oils that come through in fresh brew.
In terms of features offered by IMbox.me, it's the standard Instant Messaging affair, along with the ability to set up ad hoc groups, share files (each user gets their own cloud storage, as do groups), search messages, and hold threaded conversations around specific content.
