Aug. 20 -- Although instant messaging is often associated with teen-agers chatting online, corporations are increasingly looking toward the tool as a way to boost worker productivity. Around 18.3 ...

So instant messaging in my - and my generation's point of view - hasn't gone out fashion, it has merely changed its meaning and definition.

Instant messaging on your network can be a productivity tool, but also a security hazard, legal minefield, and threat to worker productivity.

ICQ, a once-popular instant messaging service, announced on Friday via its website that it would be shutting down next month. "ICQ will stop working from June 26," reads a message on ICQ.com.

Online marketers are combining the power of instant messaging with peer-to-peer networks such as Napster to create a new wave of Web advertising some call more invasive than spam.

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Like Jack Dorsey's X alternative - Bluesky, Bitchat is a decentralised instant messaging platform that uses Bluetooth to send ...

Does Gmail want to be an instant messaging client? Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji ...

Instant messaging is still a great communications tool with immediacy and a modicum of intimacy. But no one has challenged AOL with a great application, and that is a shame.

T he biggest private instant messaging app in the world is finally available on Apple's tablets. Meta's social media, instant messenger and voice-over-IP app, WhatsApp, is now compatible with iPadOS.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has risen from the ashes. Now called AIM Phoenix, the popular messaging application from the late 90s and early 2000s is back. But this time it's not run by America Online.