Instant Messaging Use To Grow In 2010, Study Says.

In 2010 worldwide instant messaging accounts will total 2.3 billion and will grow to 3.4 billion by 2014, according to the latest study by The Radicati Group Inc.

Increasingly IM services go beyond simple text-based messaging and offer other features such as voice chat, video chat, social network connectivity and support for mobile devices.

IM is defined as real-time text messaging transmitted through a network between two or more users. The IM market is comprised of products or services that either facilitate IM conversations or secure and manage its usage.

The study divides the market into four segments: Public IM, Enterprise IM, IM Management and Security and IM Aggregators.

An in-depth analysis of the Instant Messaging market, including:

* Installed Base and Revenue Market Share by Vendor, Four-Year Forecasts, and Breakouts by Region and Business Size.

* The Study Covers Four Key Market Segments:
o Public IM
o Enterprise IM
o IM Management & Security
o IM Aggregators

* Statistics on Worldwide IM Accounts, IM Traffic, and Consumer vs. Corporate IM users.

* An in depth analysis of key market players: AOL, Bloomberg, Cisco, eBuddy, Facebook, FaceTime, Fring, Google, Global Relay, ICQ, IBM, Meebo, Microsoft, MySpace, Novell, Skype, Symantec, Tencent, Quest Software, and Yahoo!.

S-IMCO, Inc. Presents Secure Messaging Solution S-IMessenger

The latest version of Secure IM features encrypted message history, secure file-transfer and a host of powerful configuration options. With these and S-IMessenger's other great features, real-time communication has never been easier. Make sure you try it free today.

Requirements

* Pentium || - 300Mhz
* 128 MB RAM (256 recommended)
* 10 MB hard disk space
* Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista (beta)

Security
With S-IMessenger you can be sure that all your conversations are secure. S-IMessenger is using TLSV1 , SSLV3, SSLV2 (not recommended) protocols. For all the TLS/SSL communication, S-IMessenger uses the industry standard tool-kit OpenSSL.

Besides all the communication that takes place between the client & the server being secure, S-IMessenger uses Blowfish encryption algorithm to encrypt anything that is stored locally, which is great for people instant messaging on o2 mobile broadband or any laptop whilst working away from home or the office. So all the history files and sensitive user-data is encrypted before storing them locally.

Presence
Allowing the user to login as Appearing Offline, automatically updating the status according to user activity, S-IMessenger helps the user effectively manage his or her presence.

Messaging
S-IMessenger allows multi user private or public chat sessions. With private chat-session the users can only join if invited & while public chat-sessions are open to all. S-IMessenger supports secure file transfer, user-avatar during single or multi-user chat-sessions.

* Single-user chat-session with avatar support.
* Multi-user chat-session with avatar support.
* Secure file transfer.
* Chat session history support.
* Chat-session message print support.

Ease of Use
S-IMessenger provides you with an easy to operate user interface. With features like...

* In place editing of personal messages.
* Built-in search & add-contact dialog box.
* New Message & File Transfer information tip.
* Contact card containing all the user contact information.
* Display with embedded search of user's current playing song.