Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. IM users, as my colleague Alec ...

Some users and experts are looking beyond the interoperability wars between instant messaging (IM) services to companies like Jabber.com Inc. that can add applications and content to the IM client.

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...

Microsoft Corp. will embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging (IM) tool now available through MSN readily available on a user’s desktop, the software giant ...

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

Microsoft released the final version of its MSN Messenger 6.0 instant messaging software Wednesday, touting its new animated emoticons, Webcam service and expanded device integration amid a marketing ...

As popular as instant messaging has become, most enterprises have neither policy nor technology in place for securing IM. Here's expert advice for getting the message. At the same time, only 10 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc., the world's largest consumer e-mail provider, on Monday said it has embedded instant messaging features inside its e-mail program, bridging a generational divide ...

Windows Movie Maker and MSN Messenger were two of Microsoft's most iconic Windows programs. The former was a casual video editing app, while the latter was an instant messaging (IM) chat service.

Dec. 14, 2005 — -- There's a new worm making its way around America Online that has opened a new front in the war to keep hackers from invading, disturbing and destroying personal computers. It's ...