news.com.com— AOL is set to launch a corporate IM service tomorrow: AIM PRO, which integrated with Microsoft's Outlook calendar and is supposedly more secure than AIM.
Jul 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
It will be interesting to see how this IM app goes gold as MS has their Communicator 2k5 out which also works with Outlook features, such as the calendar which auto posts an away message when you're at a meeting. Good luck AOL.
I used the beta of this and it didn't have ads (except for a few in menu things hawking webEX) and it also used a fraction of the resources of the consumer version (seat of the pants, unscientific study showed 2megs v. 40+ on the same screen name)
Does anyone remember WASTE? It was made by the Winamp type people. Hmmm, AOL owns Winamp. Aol made them take it down and now they want to release a "secure" IM client? Yeah. Right. Good thing I have a copy of WASTE.
More secure my ass. I had my password swiped twice on aol im and those jackballs would not look into it.Shame on me for using aol im in the firstplace.
In response to jhuebel, why not just jabber? It provides all of that integration by itself -- you didn't a third step in the middle...Also, if you're in healthcare, wouldn't using AIM, which isn't secure, be against HIPAA?
@Zakir: You're right, that's certainly a concern. However, Information Management has surprisingly little contact with patient information in our organization. There are other departments that handle collating patient data. Those departments don't have access to AIM. Also, discussion of patient information within our organization is a firing offense, period. There is extensive, required, regulatory training that every employee must successfully complete in order to keep his or her job. A lot of that training is HIPAA-related. For instance, here are some courses I was required to complete last year (and must be renewed every fiscal year) that had HIPAA elements in them:IM HIPAA Level 3 Department ProceduresHIPAA Security Awareness Part 1 - Introduction for End UsersSecurity GuidelinesHIPAA IT/IS - ExamIntroduction to the Healthcare Regulatory Environment - ExamCode of Ethics: The 2004 Code of EthicsCode of Ethics: Regulatory Background and System ResourcesCode of Ethics: Foundation of Integrity & Ethics
tfogartyJul 19, 2006
It will be interesting to see how this IM app goes gold as MS has their Communicator 2k5 out which also works with Outlook features, such as the calendar which auto posts an away message when you're at a meeting. Good luck AOL.
erkokiteJul 19, 2006
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mlynch3261Jul 19, 2006
I used the beta of this and it didn't have ads (except for a few in menu things hawking webEX) and it also used a fraction of the resources of the consumer version (seat of the pants, unscientific study showed 2megs v. 40+ on the same screen name)
catpounce004Jul 19, 2006
Does anyone remember WASTE? It was made by the Winamp type people. Hmmm, AOL owns Winamp. Aol made them take it down and now they want to release a "secure" IM client? Yeah. Right. Good thing I have a copy of WASTE.
bytemeJul 19, 2006
From my understanding there will not be any ads imbedded in this product.
zoombusaJul 19, 2006
More secure my ass. I had my password swiped twice on aol im and those jackballs would not look into it.Shame on me for using aol im in the firstplace.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2006
In response to jhuebel, why not just jabber? It provides all of that integration by itself -- you didn't a third step in the middle...Also, if you're in healthcare, wouldn't using AIM, which isn't secure, be against HIPAA?
xxshadowstormxxJul 19, 2006
AOL is the last people I look to for IM.
jhuebelAug 25, 2006
@Zakir: You're right, that's certainly a concern. However, Information Management has surprisingly little contact with patient information in our organization. There are other departments that handle collating patient data. Those departments don't have access to AIM. Also, discussion of patient information within our organization is a firing offense, period. There is extensive, required, regulatory training that every employee must successfully complete in order to keep his or her job. A lot of that training is HIPAA-related. For instance, here are some courses I was required to complete last year (and must be renewed every fiscal year) that had HIPAA elements in them:IM HIPAA Level 3 Department ProceduresHIPAA Security Awareness Part 1 - Introduction for End UsersSecurity GuidelinesHIPAA IT/IS - ExamIntroduction to the Healthcare Regulatory Environment - ExamCode of Ethics: The 2004 Code of EthicsCode of Ethics: Regulatory Background and System ResourcesCode of Ethics: Foundation of Integrity & Ethics