The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion

	The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion | Google faces uphill fight in mobile messaging
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	Highfive's $799 videoconferencing tool throws meetings to your TV Highfive's $799 device connects to an HDTV and lets you "throw" a conference from a mobile device to the larger display. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Connection It's Time to Refresh Your Data Center Want to discover the health of your data center infrastructure in a single question? Call someone in IT and ask, "How old is our server?" Seems simple enough, right? But be ready to be asked which server you're specifically asking about. Applications, storage, email--you may have several assigned to just as many tasks. Learn more >> In this Issue The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion Google faces uphill fight in mobile messaging Microsoft updates Skype for Windows, Mac with new chat interface Bill Gates: Microsoft is developing a killer meeting-room app 5 things you need to know about VoLTE Cisco advises users to lock down WebEx to prevent snooping Acer expands into telephoning networking equipment : Samsung Security? Leave it to Me! Samsung KNOX Learn how Samsung KNOX's multi-layered approach to mobile security protects against malicious apps, prevents attacks from one domain spreading to another domain and more. Learn More The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion On Thursday, Skype debuted Skype Qik, a "spontaneous" video chat app that allows you to fire off video messages to a group of friends, react to them, and rest easy in the fact that they'll disappear in two weeks' time. That may seem like a mouthful, but that's about the only way to differentiate an instant messaging app these days. Even labels like "instant messaging" and "chat" and "anonymous chat" and "video communications" are becoming meaningless as apps evolve and absorb the features of their competitors. Microsoft Qik's conversation view.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Google faces uphill fight in mobile messaging Search giant Google reportedly plans to roll out a mobile messaging app to compete with WhatsApp. Read More Microsoft updates Skype for Windows, Mac with new chat interface Chatting in Skype for Windows and the Mac now looks more like the Windows Phone version, whether you like it or not. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Remote Collaboration Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges--and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Learn more >> Bill Gates: Microsoft is developing a killer meeting-room app Microsoft is actively developing a meeting-room application designed to streamline the entire process, including sharing data and recognizing participants, according to company co-founder Bill Gates. Read More 5 things you need to know about VoLTE Voice over LTE (VoLTE) means better sounding voice calls and the ability to use voice and data at the same time, among other things. Here are five facts you should know about the next-generation wireless network technology. Read More Cisco advises users to lock down WebEx to prevent snooping Cisco has warned customers to lock down WebEx after a security researcher and journalist found many big-name companies left some online meetings open for anyone to join. Read More Acer expands into telephoning networking equipment For a company once devoted to consumer PCs, the product is a bit out of left field, but Acer announced an upcoming telephoning and chatting system meant for enterprises, at a time when the company is diversifying its business. Read More
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