Many assistants never meet their clients, communicating instead by email, instant message, phone or videoconference.
For instance, you can't directly send an instant message to BlackBerry Messenger from Google Talk.
They can use that to write papers, explore the Web, play games and instant message their friends.
Later that evening, the FBI agent asked Mr. Hicks via instant message whether he liked the camera.
By contrast, the number of people using Skype to instant message each other grew over the period.
Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype's messaging tool.
You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine.
One key supporter of Anonymous said via instant message today that they were specifically targeting law enforcement in the United States.
According to an online description of the product, Safe Eyes lets parents log the social-media posts and instant message conversations of their children.
Israeli venture capitalist Yossi Vardi, who founded the famed ICQ instant message service later bought by America Online, decided to poke fun at it.
It can send a message to all message addresses (phone number, e-mail address, instant messaging screen name) for all message types (voicemail, e-mail, instant message, SMS, MMS, fax).
Workers received an instant message to report to the lobby where buses took them to a hotel and then they were all given the word they were gone.
Toward the end of the workday yesterday, I sent an instant message to a former colleague of mine at Wine Spectator magazine, where I worked for three years.
Just as with the UBS and Barclays settlements, regulators have produced incriminating e-mail and instant message correspondence among traders and managers with regard to setting interbank interest rates.
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The game is designed to be very social, with a Facebook-style stream of activity of your friends, the ability to instant message friends, status updates, in-game messages and forums.
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Then a light bulb went off: What if he came up with an application that would allow him to video chat and instant message with people who might know the answer?
Such input doesn't actually control battlefield assets, but it does send orders to the appropriate personnel so they can be executed, and soldiers confirm receipt of the order via instant message.
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"I would never want a company to send me an instant message advertisement and as soon as that started I would instantly log off and never use the service again, " he says.
Roll your eyes and LOL, but boyd is a highly sought-after ethnographer--Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is an instant message buddy--who has helped tech companies shape online products and privacy policies aimed at youth.
Facebook's service is designed to combine traditional email, instant message and cellphone text messages into one system, routing messages to whichever service is best for each person, and keeping an archive of it all.
"If you look at the 500 million people who are on Facebook and the way that people text each other and instant message and use video chat, there is now an evolution of media, " Kotick said.
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By their count, U.S. and U.K. workers on corporate laptops are more than twice as likely, compared with desktop users, to send confidential info by instant message, and about a third more likely to send confidential data across Webmail.
Despite the rudeness of doing so, 64 percent of employees report that they will ignore a meeting in which they are participating to answer email, answer a cell phone, update their social status, or send an instant message.
Using Tello's gear, the company says, an office in, say, Denver can talk and work on documents with colleagues, partners or customers in New York or New Delhi via phone, private phone exchanges, instant message, BlackBerry, cellular and other networks.
Windows Phone users will be able to view photos and social networking updates for just that group, if they want, and talk to each other as a group through email and instant message services such as Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat.
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Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
As Electronic Dance Music (EDM), continues to dominate concert lineups and award shows, Mixify is trying to translate the high quality audio and visuals of an EDM event to the Internet, by allowing artists to stream sets live and instant message with fans as they do so.
It is now routine for university students to text, e-mail and instant-message during lectures.
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Though Tam described their relationship as friendly, in a recent instant-message interview his tone was harsh.
The Florida Republican resigned Friday amid scrutiny of his e-mail and instant-message contacts with pages.
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