Even as Google Inc. was revamping its e-mail service to cater to the social-media crowd, the newly independent AOL Inc. released a version of its instant messaging feature that integrates with ...

A once-popular but now extinct "buddy" on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times, weather and stocks is poised to make a comeback next month--but at a price.

Adium is the best chat client available for the Mac OS. Period. It also happens to be 100 percent open source. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

Google Messages is the default messaging app on most Android phones. However, the default messaging app can vary depending on the manufacturer and the region. Messages uses cellular data to send and ...

In the beginning, there was AOL Instant Messenger. That wasn’t actually the beginning. Talkomatic, Compuserve’s CB Simulator, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) all preceded it. But AIM was the beginning ...

COMMENTARY-- Face it: It's unreasonable to expect Miss Manners to rule on the finer points of our technological lifestyle, such as the niceties of instant messaging. Thankfully, TalkBack readers are ...

The popularity of instant messaging has grown exponentially in the past decade, but the communication platform’s immediacy presents users with endless opportunities to come off the wrong way. These ...