Instant messaging (IM) -- whether companies view it as a worker productivity booster or a security threat -- is a popular communication application that many workers use, with or without permission, ...

America Online has released a version of its popular instant messaging product aimed at the corporate market. The Enterprise AIM Services suite, now available, will allow corporations to manage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mobile devices are everywhere, and most healthcare organizations are following the trend and adopting mobile devices at the point of care. In particular, clinicians at hospitals and healthcare ...

It was almost five years ago at a trade show keynote that web pioneer Marc Andreessen argued that instant messaging would be the next big thing on the Internet. Alas, Andreessen – a key player in the ...

Instant Messaging is one of the great undeveloped applications of the Net. In use by millions of people at work and at home, it remains much the same as its anarchistic antecedent, Internet Relay Chat ...

WhatsApp, bought by Facebook in February 2014, now occupies 200 minutes a week of its billion users , and is forecast to surpass 3.6 billion users by 2020 – that’s about half of humanity. Messaging is ...

Yahoo on Tuesday said it is launching a service in the United States that lets people make phone calls through the company's instant messaging software. Available in several other countries since ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Joel Brumm started using instant messaging in seventh-grade to talk with friends during free time at school and at home. Brumm, a senior at the University of Northern Iowa's Price Lab ...