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CNET
April 26, 2001
Its one of the dirty little secrets of corporate communications: Executives and other employees routinely chat via notoriously insecure instant messages. America Online, Yahoo and the other providers of popular IM applications maintain that their software is focused on the consumer market. That has opened a niche to a crop of start-ups that are beginning to address IMs rapidly growing corporate audience, adding security features and other improvements to make instant messaging more palatable to executives and information systems managers.