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Financial Companies Ask IM Companies To Work Together

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

sammy.lost-angel.com writes "From this CNET article: "Two weeks ago, six top financial institutions met privately with AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, IBM and other leading corporate instant messaging providers and urged them to build communications networks that interoperate." The article even talks about Jabber."

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  1. Yeah right!!! by kryonD · · Score: 4, Funny

    every 4 years over 250 Million taxpayers get together to beg the government to work as a team and look how far that's gotten!

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    I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
  2. Re:I wrote a paper about IMs in the work place... by Trinition · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I read that paper... A co-worker of mine IM'ed it to me today.

  3. External motives by Niadh · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, some of the top Wall Street brass asked the internet today if they wouldn't mind picking one IM protocol and port to make it easier to ban/snoop at work. The internet responded by eating the free lunch provided for the meeting, and then promptly leaving.

  4. Re:I wrote a paper about IMs in the work place... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you're going to spout off that you wrote a paper, and reference a link, please post the goddman paper on that link. Oh, and you're wrong.