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

GNOME's Empathy instant messaging client will gain some impressive features in the future as it integrates with Zeitgeist and other key parts of the GNOME desktop environment. I used to be pretty ...

Digital rights watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is advising users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) not to upgrade to the next version of the instant messaging application because its ...

Though the official iPhone AppStore is only months away, developers are still delivering some incredible native applications built under the unofficial "jailbreak" umbrella. The latest is "fring," an ...

If you find yourself doing more and more instant messaging through Twitter these days, you need TwIM for iPhone. This free and simple app is powered by Twitter’s direct messages, and it makes it easy ...

The last trace of Microsoft's once-dominant Messenger network will disappear at the end of October, reports TechNode. After October 31st, Chinese users chatting on the instant messaging network will ...

Integrated presence and an expanded offline Web client are also on the development schedule for the open-source software company. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Instant messaging has become the latest employee productivity tool. A customer-service representative can use it as a quick and easy way to answer an inquiry, whereas a salesperson can inform a busy ...

COMMENTARY--What a bunch of crybabies! I am talking about the whiners who feel America Online is doing something terrible by locking out the users of Trillian, a multi-service instant-messaging client ...

Instant messaging (IM) is now a mainstream communication platform for Web users, according to new data collected by America Online and Opinion Research Corporation, and the new usage figures are ...

Alien Technology has released a new version of Proteus, its multi-service instant messaging client for Mac OS X. The new version, Proteus 1.5, is ready for download from the Web site. With Proteus, ...