Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. IM users, as my colleague Alec ...

The company, which has been quietly working on an instant messaging component for its iPlanet e-commerce software, will debut the product at an Oct. 22 event. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The companies, through their iPlanet software collaboration, are quietly working on instant messaging software for businesses, a market segment where Microsoft and IBM lead. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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 ...

News and Notes tech contributor Mario Armstrong talks about instant-messaging software and what it could be hiding from you on your own computer. This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. You may want ...

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 ...

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...

TORONTO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Business Instant Messaging Data Quadrant. Six providers ...

First popularized by adolescents sharing gossip and homework tips, instant messaging is going mainstream: In the U.S. 13.4 million people are IM-ing (yes, it has become a verb) at work, each averaging ...

Microsoft Corp. will embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging (IM) tool now available through MSN readily available on a user’s desktop, the software giant ...