Business Bytes
Renee Oricchio

Archiving IM and SMS Texts

 

It just got easier. Here's my favorite Web 2.0 freebie app of the week: DexRex.

DexRex allows you to archive all your old chat threads. Here's a list of all the IM and network clients it supports, so far.

Your web-based archive stored wtih DexRex is searchable; meaning you can find that phone number of a contact buried in an IM from last week or reconstruct a conversation on a project with a specific colleague.

This is a handly little tool for smaller businesses and the self-employed crowd. If your company has special compliance issues, I'd take a pass for now.

Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987. @oricchio