doing fine on their own. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, publicized a flaw in AOL Time Warner's messaging application a week ago. Because ...

Instant messaging is booming. Almost everywhere you look, people are typing messages to friends and work colleagues at a frantic pace. These are not e-mails but rather short messages that often travel ...

Matt Conover worries that malicious Net users may know something about instant messaging that he doesn't. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, ...

Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some ...

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 ...

The use of instant messaging in the workplace and from mobile devices continues to grow, according to an America Online survey released Tuesday. Nearly 27 percent of all IM users surveyed said they ...

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 ...

The newest name on a government worker's Buddy List could be his or her supervisor.Instant messaging has quickly become one of the Internet's most popular tools for communicating with friends and ...

The Internet's Big 3 - America Online, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! - today are expected to announce an alliance that will link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, the ...

The new product also includes new privacy controls, and the company claims it is significantly easier to use. Sun also said it is developing a wider network of IM partners, including Clique ...