Hello, long time reader, first time poster! My company is looking for a corporate instant messaging program, and I'm looking for some suggestions. I've spent quite a few hours "googling" corporate IM ...

Consumer instant messaging products,most notably, AOL's Instant Messenger,have addicted millions of users who have taken their IM habit from home to work, where security concerns immediately cropped ...

When employees started downloading free instant-messaging programs to use at work, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC's initial response was to pull the plug on the popular online communications. Pam Housley, ...

The Enterprise AIM game plan has been public since last spring when AOL said it was working with Verisign on encrypted instant messaging. The consumer product has been downloaded by tens of millions ...

Although many offices prevent employees from accessing programs such as AIM or Yahoo Messenger, sometimes you just need to access your buddy list to chat with friends or family. With meebo, you can ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Google is set to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reports, marking the expansion by the Web search leader into text and also voice communications.

Instant messaging (IM) can help e-commerce sites capture potential sales, but cost, service and technological hurdles must be cleared before IM can have a major impact, according to analysts. Gartner ...

Google has launched an instant-messaging program that allows text chat and computer-to-computer voice connections, a move that highlights the search giant's increasing competition with Yahoo, ...

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 ...

Q: I use America Online for instant messages. A good friend uses Yahoo Messenger. Is there a way we can chat with each other? I've heard there are some instant messaging programs that are ...

People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again. As the recent scandals involving former Republican congressman Mark Foley and Hewlett-Packard Co. have brought to ...