In a poll of 50 Fortune 500 companies, Forrester Research found that nearly half expect to use instant messaging services for business in the next two years. "Instant messaging is a way to communicate ...

Despite the work full-service firms have put into Web-based client services, there's one function that's still missing -- the ability to chat in real time via text-based message screens. The term for ...

Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...

While iMessage and Meta's apps dominate modern messaging, there have been many other instant messaging apps that were hugely ...

(CNN) -- As Microsoft duels AOL for the instant messaging crown, the pressure is rising on the 20 or so active members of a nine-month-old group working on a common language for what may be the most ...

These days, we take internet-based chatting for granted. We're spoiled by a massive (and admittedly fragmented) ecosystem of direct messaging (DM) services on our phones and PCs, ranging from WhatsApp ...

In addition to Microsoft now offering the app on Android, it is also broadening the regional availability for the app from just the US and Canada In addition to Microsoft now offering the app on ...

Google will continue expanding beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory when it launches on Wednesday an instant messaging (IM) service with voice communications ...