Instant Messaging Anwendungen ermöglichen den Austausch von Präsenzund Verfügbarkeitsinformationen sowie das Abhalten von spontanen Online-Konversationen. In diesem Beitrag berichten wir über eine Befragung zum Verhalten von Anwendern, leiten daraus Anforderungen für die adäquate Unterstützung für gemeinsame Logins ab und präsentieren mit PRIMIUnite ein Konzept und eine Implementation zur elega...

This memo specifies the Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM) Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) as a common presence data format for CPIM-compliant Instant Messaging and Presence protocols, and also defines a new media type "application/cpim-pidf+xml" to represent the XML MIME entity for PIDF. Sugano et al. [Page 2] INTERNET DRAFT CPIM Presence Format December 2002 Table of Content

This memo specifies the Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM) Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) as a common presence data format for CPIM-compliant Instant Messaging and Presence protocols, and also defines a new media type "application/cpim-pidf+xml" to represent the XML MIME entity for PIDF. Sugano et al. [Page 2] INTERNET DRAFT CPIM Presence Format October 2002 Table of Content

Although remarkable improvements in the growth of business applications for mobile devices have been made in recent years, the development in this area is still not as mature as it is for desktop computers. The development of services that can be fully functional in mobile environments and operable on a variety of devices is an important and complex task for the research community. This paper p...

Using instant messenger in real time communication is widespread worldwide. However, in the communication of using cross-language (Japanese other languages) instant messaging, the use of colloquial expressions usually degrades the efficiency of communication. The contributions of our research can be split into two parts: (1) we analyzed the in-house conversation logs of business correspondence ...

Instant messaging (IM) is one of the newest and fastest-growing communication technologies in the workplace today, yet little is known about its real implications for worker productivity. We have taken the particular affordances of instant messaging as the basis for extrapolating from and linking prior studies of email use, polychronic communication, and task interruptions to develop propositio...

Instant messaging (IM) is one of the newest and fastest-growing communication technologies in the workplace today, yet little is known about its real implications for worker productivity. We have taken the particular affordances of instant messaging as the basis for extrapolating from and linking prior studies of email use, polychronic communication, and task interruptions to develop propositio...

Mobile instant messaging (mobile IM) is a cutting edge technology of the P2P communication. The prevalence of the mobile IM boosts the research of the perceived satisfaction and loyalty towards mobile IM long-term usage. In the era of 4G, individuals use mobile IM to communicate with their friends in every-day life. However, prior studies neglected a holistic view of users’ roles and then yield...

INTRODUCTION Instant messaging (IM) is suited for immediate communication because messages are delivered almost in real time. Results from studies of IM use in enterprise work settings make us believe that IM based services may prove useful also within the healthcare sector. However, today's public instant messaging services do not have the level of information security required for adoption of...

The highly competitive and increasingly transparent characteristics of the digital environment have led inter-firm rivalry more frequently. Competitive actions and competitor’s responses together determine firms’ value creation. The key to obtain competitive advantages is to stop or delay competitor’s response. Therefore, our research question is which type of actions is the most effective in d...