即时通讯领域最近异常热闹，先是中国电信宣布与微软合作推出即时通讯工具(IM)天翼Live，紧接着中国联通在网站上又发布公告，称将于2009年7月1日起关停超信业务。与此同时，中国联通还表达了要建设更强大IM卷土重来的决心。然而，在抢占先机的QQ与有良好用户基础的中移动“飞信”面前，无论是电信天翼Live，还是联通未来的IM又有几多胜算呢？下面就让我们一起来预测一下未来即时通讯领域的座次排名。
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一、腾讯QQ 先入为主
事实上，电信运营商蜂拥而上推出即时通讯业务，很大程度上是受到腾讯QQ的感染。目前，腾讯QQ已经坐拥9.3亿的注册用户，活跃用户超过4亿。
新浪的UC、网易的泡泡、Google的Gtalk以及号称两年内打败QQ的lava-lava，都想和QQ“一拼高低”。但在垄断了用户的“心”和“关系网”后，先入为主的腾讯QQ已经毫无疑问地奠定了它在即时通讯领域的霸主地位。包括三大运营商在内，无论是谁要想超越甚或比肩腾讯QQ都将成为梦想。
二、移动飞信 庞大用户做后盾
电信运营商中，效仿QQ模式取得成功的目前还只有中国移动。至2008年底,移动飞信的活跃账户数达到2921万,已经超过微软的移动MSN成为了仅次于腾讯的第二大移动IM服务提供商。
飞信的成功同样也是难以复制的。毕竟,中国移动拥有接近5亿的手机用户,占国内手机用户数的70%以上,这是别的运营商无可比拟的优势。以此为基础,飞信即使不接纳电信、联通的用户,不与其他即时通讯工具互联互通,自身也能形成一个庞大的用户圈子。再加上中国移动施以免费短信的诱惑,大大减少了推广上的难度。
三、电信天翼live 捆绑微软MSN
今年3月初，中国电信与微软 MSN 联手推出的即时通讯工具（IM）—天翼 live 。据了解，“天翼Live”不仅能实现语音通话，短信等功能，同时还将与我的e家及天翼Card等业务进行整合。
中国电信觊觎到 MSN 所谓的中高端用户群，通过与MSN互联互通绑定微软发展用户。MSN 也想借助中国电信的用户群提高对付腾讯 QQ 与中国移动飞信的能力，实乃双赢之举。但是MSN用户数量有限，截至2009Q1，活跃用户只有2370万，而MSN的在中国的本土化和运营一直存在很大的问题，对于天翼的推动力有待观察。
尽管省却了从零做起，先天不足的中国电信，面对前方强大的飞信和QQ，恐怕也只能望尘莫及了。
四、阿里旺旺 借力电子商务
电子商务无疑是互联网发展最为伟大的发明之一。因为，它真的是利用网络帮助买卖双方贡献了点实质性的服务。它让人们知道，互联网不仅仅只是一个媒体而存在，它要帮助商人能在上面看到实质性的钞票，尽管还有点虚拟。
失业人群可以在网络上开辟低成本就业，商人需要即时跟客户沟通。作为电子商务市场份额最大的阿里集团，适时推出了旺旺。在最近的艾瑞发布的IM报告中，旺旺当选为最受欢迎并且普及最为迅速的聊天工具，其前途不容小觑。
五、联通IM 前景堪忧
5月27日,中国联通在网站上发布公告,称将于2009年7月1日起关停超信业务的免费试用服务。同时,中国联通在公告中也表达了卷土重来的决心。“为了提供更优质的即时通讯产品,中国联通正在建设功能更完善的系统,并致力于向用户提供功能更丰富、服务更优秀的即时通讯服务。”
表面上看,联通关闭超信业务的免费试用服务是因为电信重组引起的平台转移,但实际上，即使没有电信重组发生，受联通C网用户规模小的影响，超信的处境也是不容乐观。
先入为主的腾讯QQ，拥有庞大用户的移动飞信，加上强强联手的天翼live，以及背靠阿里的旺旺，无论是得先独厚，还是借势借力，现在看来，各有所长。
即时通讯工具需要长期的用户积累，并有着极强的用户粘性。那么，对于至今还未出世的联通IM来说，联通卷土重来的信心又来自何处呢？
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文章出处：IT商业新闻网
作者：李慧芳
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中电信携手微软推即时通信工具“天翼Live”
中国电信即将推出手机版客户端，这一服务与微软旗下的MSN聊天软件合作推出，品牌为“天翼live”。该手机版客户端是中国电信和微软合作，面向中国电信移动用户推出的集手机MSN和相关移动增值业务为一体的综合信息服务。
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中国电信相关人士昨日透露，中国电信即将推出手机版客户端，这一服务与微软旗下的MSN聊天软件合作推出，品牌为“天翼live”。
该手机版客户端是中国电信和微软合作，面向中国电信移动用户推出的集手机MSN和相关移动增值业务为一体的综合信息服务。而且中国电信“天翼”品牌定位于互联网手机，引入即时通讯工具是不可或缺的一环。
用户在使用上，只要拥有中国电信的手机号码，便拥有一个与手机号码同名的MSN账号，启动手机上的软件即可登录MSN；用户也可以选择绑定原有的MSN账号。此聊天软件也可与短信实现互通。
事实上，中国电信与微软的合作始于去年11月，根据中国电信与微软签署的战略合作协议，双方将共同开发基于微软Windows Live即时通讯服务平台的移动互联网服务。
“天翼live”将会是整合中国电信宽带、互联网和CDMA网络资源，实现固网和移动网络的融合，为用户提供文字、语音、视频等多媒体视听、沟通的综合信息服务平台，承载中国电信的多项业务。
电信运营商进入IM领域始于2006年，当年中国移动推出飞信。市场调研机构艾瑞去年的报告显示，手机网民在各类移动增值业务（短信除外）中对移动即时通讯的使用率最高，比例高达72.0%。其中，手机QQ以80.8%的渗透率位居第一，飞信、移动MSN以9.2%、5.1%的比例分居第二、第三。
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文章出处：IT商业新闻网
编辑：Amy
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中国电信相关人士昨日透露，中国电信即将推出手机版客户端，这一服务与微软旗下的MSN聊天软件合作推出，品牌为“天翼live”。
该手机版客户端是中国电信和微软合作，面向中国电信移动用户推出的集手机MSN和相关移动增值业务为一体的综合信息服务。而且中国电信“天翼”品牌定位于互联网手机，引入即时通讯工具是不可或缺的一环。
用户在使用上，只要拥有中国电信的手机号码，便拥有一个与手机号码同名的MSN账号，启动手机上的软件即可登录MSN；用户也可以选择绑定原有的MSN账号。此聊天软件也可与短信实现互通。
事实上，中国电信与微软的合作始于去年11月，根据中国电信与微软签署的战略合作协议，双方将共同开发基于微软Windows Live即时通讯服务平台的移动互联网服务。
“天翼live”将会是整合中国电信宽带、互联网和CDMA网络资源，实现固网和移动网络的融合，为用户提供文字、语音、视频等多媒体视听、沟通的综合信息服务平台，承载中国电信的多项业务。
电信运营商进入IM领域始于2006年，当年中国移动推出飞信。市场调研机构艾瑞去年的报告显示，手机网民在各类移动增值业务（短信除外）中对移动即时通讯的使用率最高，比例高达72.0%。其中，手机QQ以80.8%的渗透率位居第一，飞信、移动MSN以9.2%、5.1%的比例分居第二、第三。
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文章出处：IT商业新闻网
编辑：Amy
Skype - A recession proof business?
There’s been plenty written about how Skype was a bad buy for eBay, but lets face it which of us hasn’t ever made a bad buying decision, whether it be stock for selling on eBay or other investments? That’s changing for Skype though, far from being written off as Meg Whitman’s worst decision Skype continues to prove it’s critics wrong by outperforming the rest of the technology market.
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Despite the world economy downturn, Skype appears to be bouncing from one high to another and bucking the trend to become more profitable than ever before. This appears to be partly led by users looking for the most cost effective methods for communicating, and not just consumers - businesses too are looking for cost cuts and are turning to Skype.
BY Chris Dawson
Source：tamebay
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Despite the world economy downturn, Skype appears to be bouncing from one high to another and bucking the trend to become more profitable than ever before. This appears to be partly led by users looking for the most cost effective methods for communicating, and not just consumers - businesses too are looking for cost cuts and are turning to Skype.
Today Skype hit the milestone of 15 million users logged on concurrently. In his speech at CES, Skype CFO Scott Durchslag said Skype has been growing about 50% compared to the previous year in almost every metric from minutes, to new users, to revenues.
Skype have also just had their seventh straight quarter of profitability and are pushing ahead with new products which for 2009 include Skype for MAC OS X, the 3 Skypephone, Skype for the iPhone, Skype for Google Android phones and Skype for Window Mobile Devices.
While other technology companies are shedding staff and reining in spending Skype is expanding their portfolio and making money. It’s an impressive performance from the black sheep of eBay’s portfolio of companies.
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Source：tamebay
Copyright © 2006 - 2009 Chris Dawson.
IM in 2008: Appearances Were Deceiving
It has been impossible to miss instant messaging’s transition from a standalone application with seemingly limited appeal to anyone but younger Internet users to a technology key to enterprise-level communications strategies.
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To someone watching the instant messaging market over the past few years—not just the public networks, but the more security-conscious enterprise market—it might seem instant messaging is cooling off. Companies that focused, for instance, on security and compliance, have been absorbed by older and more established security vendors. The herd of companies that sold instant messaging servers has thinned, some of its members simply folding up, while others moved into other areas.
At the same time, when we look over traffic patterns for this site from the past year, it’s hard to miss the fact that a lot of our first-time visitors arrive looking for our list of instant messaging abbreviations, which suggests that—like a lot of things on the ‘net—IM has achieved a level of ubiquity and permanence, its user base growing as new settlers arrive on the digital frontier.
If there are fewer IM-specific security companies in 2008, it’s in large part because IM isn’t something an IT manager either permits without reservation or merely bans; but because it’s so crucial to a mobile and dispersed workforce that no security vendor can neglect some sort of IM security or compliance offering. One could also argue that enterprise IM received something of a benediction in September, when Cisco announced its intent to acquire Jabber, Inc..
Instant messaging has also become something of a backbone for other modes of communication. VoIP offerings like Skype, Gizmo5 and Google Talk draw users in with free or inexpensive voice chat, but find themselves compelled to include some sort of fallback text communications for those times when network latency, lag and jitter make a good voice call impossible. Conferencing solutions, like Yuuguu, which we covered in November, use IM buddy lists and IM networks as the starting point for much more complex group collaboration tools. Though Facebook relies on users posting updates on the walls of its walled garden, it also sees the value of the IM metaphor, as do Facebook developers who have tied IM networks to the service with applications.
Finally, though it was first conceived in early 2006 and spun off as a company in April, 2007, Twitter, Inc. enjoyed absolutely explosive growth in 2008. A November Bloomberg article cites Comscore, which claimed global visitors to Twitter’s site increased fivefold from September of 2007. As we wrote this note we noticed that the Consulate General of Israel will be holding a press conference via Twitter tomorrow morning.
In many ways, Twitter has proved a more able conduit for information services than traditional IM. We set out to write an article about IM-based RSS repeaters and information services in June of this year, only to find what we called “a sort of software fossil layer that Internet archaeologists working a century from now may well identify as ‘The Late IM Enthusiasm Age.’” A boom of such software in 2004 had largely disappeared by 2006. Twitter, on the other hand, continues to expand the number of news agencies, Web sites, political campaigns and others who gather followers happy to receive updates in 140 characters or less.
Twitter is not, strictly speaking, the instant messaging we started the decade with, but with its friends and followers lists and a proliferation of desktop applications (like the excellent Twitterific or the Emacs-based twittering-mode.el, it represents a harmonizing of SMS and IM that demonstrates a wide-spread craving for quick communications.
Which brings us to 2009. With an economy in recession and a certain grimness in the air, some might be tempted to argue that instant messaging is a frivolity people will set aside, either in the name of productivity or—in the case of enterprises spending not insubstantial sums securing and archiving it—costs. Our prediction? Another good year for our IM glossary.
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BY Michael Hall
Source：Instant Messaging PLANET.COM
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To someone watching the instant messaging market over the past few years—not just the public networks, but the more security-conscious enterprise market—it might seem instant messaging is cooling off. Companies that focused, for instance, on security and compliance, have been absorbed by older and more established security vendors. The herd of companies that sold instant messaging servers has thinned, some of its members simply folding up, while others moved into other areas.
At the same time, when we look over traffic patterns for this site from the past year, it’s hard to miss the fact that a lot of our first-time visitors arrive looking for our list of instant messaging abbreviations, which suggests that—like a lot of things on the ‘net—IM has achieved a level of ubiquity and permanence, its user base growing as new settlers arrive on the digital frontier.
If there are fewer IM-specific security companies in 2008, it’s in large part because IM isn’t something an IT manager either permits without reservation or merely bans; but because it’s so crucial to a mobile and dispersed workforce that no security vendor can neglect some sort of IM security or compliance offering. One could also argue that enterprise IM received something of a benediction in September, when Cisco announced its intent to acquire Jabber, Inc..
Instant messaging has also become something of a backbone for other modes of communication. VoIP offerings like Skype, Gizmo5 and Google Talk draw users in with free or inexpensive voice chat, but find themselves compelled to include some sort of fallback text communications for those times when network latency, lag and jitter make a good voice call impossible. Conferencing solutions, like Yuuguu, which we covered in November, use IM buddy lists and IM networks as the starting point for much more complex group collaboration tools. Though Facebook relies on users posting updates on the walls of its walled garden, it also sees the value of the IM metaphor, as do Facebook developers who have tied IM networks to the service with applications.
Finally, though it was first conceived in early 2006 and spun off as a company in April, 2007, Twitter, Inc. enjoyed absolutely explosive growth in 2008. A November Bloomberg article cites Comscore, which claimed global visitors to Twitter’s site increased fivefold from September of 2007. As we wrote this note we noticed that the Consulate General of Israel will be holding a press conference via Twitter tomorrow morning.
In many ways, Twitter has proved a more able conduit for information services than traditional IM. We set out to write an article about IM-based RSS repeaters and information services in June of this year, only to find what we called “a sort of software fossil layer that Internet archaeologists working a century from now may well identify as ‘The Late IM Enthusiasm Age.’” A boom of such software in 2004 had largely disappeared by 2006. Twitter, on the other hand, continues to expand the number of news agencies, Web sites, political campaigns and others who gather followers happy to receive updates in 140 characters or less.
Twitter is not, strictly speaking, the instant messaging we started the decade with, but with its friends and followers lists and a proliferation of desktop applications (like the excellent Twitterific or the Emacs-based twittering-mode.el, it represents a harmonizing of SMS and IM that demonstrates a wide-spread craving for quick communications.
Which brings us to 2009. With an economy in recession and a certain grimness in the air, some might be tempted to argue that instant messaging is a frivolity people will set aside, either in the name of productivity or—in the case of enterprises spending not insubstantial sums securing and archiving it—costs. Our prediction? Another good year for our IM glossary.
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BY Michael Hall
Source：Instant Messaging PLANET.COM
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