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AP-AOL Instant Messaging Trends Survey Reveals Popularity Of Mobile Instant Messaging: this survey has interesting tidbits about IM use including workplace use, use on mobile devices, and how teen use IM. 79 percent of office workers have used IM for personal use.
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12 spam research projects that might make a difference: Network World gives a short description of a dozen research anti-spam research projects from university and industrial research labs. Many of projects presented papers at the 2007 Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS).
Off-the-Record Messaging: Useful Security and Privacy for IM: In an hour long recorded lecture, [...]

TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service’s Risks: TinyURL is one of the most well known services that provide short URL redirection services. It is popular with users of mobile messaging services such as Twitter.
Box.net Launches OpenBox, an Online Storage Platform: Box.net is a relative newcomer to the web-based file upload services which make it convenient [...]

A half day symposium titled “When Spam isn’t Spam: An Unfiltered Look at
Self-Regulation and the Law Behind E-mail” (

If Social Networking Sites *Really* Wanted to Interoperate: this tongue-in-cheek piece points out existing and well supported standards (SMTP and IMAP) that could be used to improve interoperability in current social network systems.
TidBITS Networking: ICANN Tests Non-Roman Characters in Domain Names: the official tests for Internationalized Domain Names have run and now the results are [...]

ICANN probing “insider trading” allegations with domain name registrations
: the topic of insiders who allegedly cherry pick domain names by watching WHOIS query logs has long been debated. ICANN is now formally investigating this practice.
Pinger Brings Voice to Mobile Text Messaging: Socialmediatoday reviews the Pinger service which piggy backs a form of voice messaging using [...]

BT/Symbian Wi-Fi Developer Challenge is a competition for developers to create an application for Wi-Fi enabled Symbian smartphones. All entries must be received by January 16th 2008.
AxisTV Expression Awards is a visual signage competition for end-users of AxisTV visual communications software to . All entries must be received by January 18, 2008.
Playyoo Games Contest is [...]