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 ...

Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some ...

doing fine on their own. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, publicized a flaw in AOL Time Warner's messaging application a week ago. Because ...

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The growing importance of instant messaging and its possible future status as a major means of communication emerged as one of the top issues in the Federal Communications Commission’s deliberations ...

Matt Conover worries that malicious Net users may know something about instant messaging that he doesn't. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, ...

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

Internal business communication has come a long way in the past several decades. From passing physical memos around to internal phone systems to instant messaging, technology has changed the way ...

The Defense Department next month will conduct interoperability tests on instant messaging and chat technology that supports the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, representatives from the ...

The Internet's Big 3 - America Online, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! - today are expected to announce an alliance that will link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, the ...