Older instant messaging programs typically require some form of installation on the client machine, enabling forensic investigators to find a wealth of evidentiary artifacts. However, this paradigm is shifting as web-based instant messaging becomes more popular. Many traditional messaging clients (e.g., AOL Messenger, Yahoo! and MSN), can now be accessed using only a web browser. This presents ...

We present preliminary results from a study of how awareness of presence affects instant messaging in a computer lab. The easily accessible web based awareness tool, WebWho, visualizes a large university computer lab, allowing students to virtually locate one another and communicate via an instant messaging system. Messages can be sent anonymously, by a conscious act of ticking a box. Cross ana...

Internet growth and activity has been increasing almost exponentially over the last decade. Today, millions of people all over the world use the Internet for a variety of activities, such as email and instant messaging, shopping, trading stocks, research, and many others. Of these, one of the fastest growing is online surveys. Because of its global reach, the Internet is the perfect medium for ...

BACKGROUND Secure email messaging is part of a national transformation initiative in the United States to promote new models of care that support enhanced patient-provider communication. To date, only a limited number of large-scale studies have evaluated users' experiences in using secure email messaging. OBJECTIVE To quantitatively assess veteran patients' experiences in using secure email ...

Enterprise Messaging is a very popular message exchange concept in asynchronous distributed computing environments. The Enterprise Messaging Servers are heavily used in building business critical Enterprise applications such as Internet based Order processing systems, pricing distribution of B2B, geographically dispersed enterprise applications. It is always desirable that Messaging Servers exh...

Introduction New technologies are often embraced by the young, who can sponge up the capabilities and nuances much as they absorb language, culture, and traditional literacies. An earlier generation of students picked up text editing and email, and subsequently brought their skills and knowledge of uses and effective practices into workplaces. Communication technologies particularly appeal to k...

Mobile communication has become a significant part of everyday life. The advent of mobile phones and PDA’s has reinforced the necessity for people to be connected without being physically tied down. Communication is key, but current modalities are restricted to simple protocols such as telephony, and less expressive mediums such as text messaging. TattleTrail is an archiving audio chat applicat...

The use of mobile text messaging – SMS has grown quite enormously over a short period of time. This has happened in spite of the fact that mobile phones have a quite clumsy user interface and that the cost of sending a message is relatively high. Three types of explanations for the popularity of SMS are suggested and discussed here: ; The rational explanation, the explanation that looks to new ...