Daily News 2005/11/21

IM service becoming more and more popular among the youngsters

According to the result of a new research, IM service is becoming more and more popular in the youngsters. Most of them send more instant messages than e-mails.

In a research on IM required by AOL, 66% of the young people of 13-21 years old say that they are sending more instant messages than E-mails, while in the last year only 49% of them said so. In general, 38% of the users say that the instant messages they sent is no less than the E-mails they sent.

A quarter of the users hope that there are some entertainment elements in the instant messages, and 20% of them are looking forward to make phone calls through IM service. At present, 33% of the users send at least one IM message a week, and 12% of them say that they are interested in the IM-based VoIP service.

AOL says that in America there are about 80 million users using IM service often and it is more and more popular at working places. 58% of the employees use it to communicate with the workmates, and 49% of the employees use it to solve problems and make decisions. Some employees even communicate with the clients in such a way to make the communication more easier.

Most of the employees (77%) say that such service has a positive influence on their work, while 13% of them hold name cards with the IM pet name.

Microsoft CRM 3.0 to be released soon

Any customer may get the license for all the modules of Microsoft CRM3.0 by purchasing professional edition of Microsoft CRM software and related user license. Deadline for this: Dec. Microsoft will release Microsoft CRM 3.0 to the world in Dec of this year. This is an important upgrading of the software ever since Microsoft CRM 1.0 was released in Jan. 2003. In this new edition, Microsoft will provide CRM solution.

Accton cooperating with Skype to provide new products

Recently, Accton announced to provide Wi-Fi mobile phone of the latest style--SkyFone WM1185-T, that has the function of VoIP. This means that the users don't have to make the Internet-based phone calls in front of the computers.
At present, the mobile phone is still under test. It is anticipated to be released in the first quarter of 2006. The price will be about 150 USD, or even 100 USD if the cost is controlled well.