My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

It has been several years since instant messaging worked its way from teens' rooms to boardrooms. What started as an easy and hip way for youngsters to communicate with their peers has turned into an ...

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 ...

Dec. 9 -- HottiEKelly248 [10:25 PM]: HeY is that you ImARealSweetheart? rEmember me? I'm kelly, we talked a few nights ago and I just wanted to get to know you more. Recently, we created a brand-new ...

Consider this scenario: You have your whole staff assembled for a planning meeting. People have their laptops and Blackberries to take notes and respond to urgent e-mails. Two employees in the back of ...

King County Councilmembers Reagan Dunn and Rod Dembowski introduced an ordinance Thursday to end the county’s practice of automatically deleting instant messaging sent between county employees. The ...

The instant messaging app that rose to prominence three years ago, Signal Messenger, is now offering users a chance to use its platform to create, share, or launch video calls from the platform. For ...

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ -- the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client -- will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly ...

Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He came to CNET straight out of college, where he graduated from Seton Hall with a bachelor's degree in journalism. For the past ...

The new feature offers end-to-end encrypted private messaging for anyone with a cb.id username, .eth domain or Lens ID. Coinbase Wallet users can now send instant messages to each other using their ...