Theories have appeared, with one being that Facebook's Poke app is a direct result of a failed buyout. Potentially supporting a bruised ego, Poke might just be a challenge to Snapchat's niche. More...
Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, this uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users - not to share files this time, but to... More...
AOL has sold its ICQ instant messenger service for $187.5 millon to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies (DST). Business Wire reported the deal on Wednesday saying the instant messaging software has a large presence in Russia,... More...
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on Windows Live Messenger, talking to a friend on... More...
When AOL bought Bebo in March for $850 million you had to wonder what their main plans were for the service and it seems they are beginning to come up with a game plan, challenging... More...
Customers of Alltel Corporation and Verizon Wireless can now access AOL's popular instant-messaging service by using cell phone text messaging. To activate, users can simply send a blank text message to "AIMAIM". The service makes... More...
ComBOTS integrates rich media messaging, advanced telephony and reliable file transfer in one easy to use tool for PC and mobile. Simply drag large files up to 100 MB, hundreds of photos or folders with... More...
Social-networking site Bebo Inc. has announced today that it will launch a Microsoft-powered instant-messaging program this fall. The program will allow Bebo users to launch an instant-messaging session within their browsers, regardless of whether they... More...
Yahoo has launched a web-based version of its free instant messaging service, allowing users to access their instant messaging contacts when on a computer with an Internet connection but without the Yahoo! Messenger software. Their... More...
Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they would tear down the wall between their formerly exclusive instant messaging services and allow members to mingle beginning today. The union of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger systems... More...
MSN and Vodafone today announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind seamless instant messaging (IM) service between PCs and mobile phones. Customers will be able to see the "presence" of their contacts and exchange instant messages... More...
Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Sunday announced a major relaunch of Yahoo Messenger, its messaging product that allows people to communicate in real-time via the Internet. The Sunnyvale, California-based company dubbed this latest update... More...
Daum Communications Corp, South Korea's top Internet portal, said on Monday it was suing Microsoft Corp and its Korean unit for alleged unfair business practices related to instant messaging software. "Microsoft used its... More...
They're out of the chat rooms and after your 'buddies' Hackers are exploiting browser security flaws to hijack instant messaging (IM) accounts, security experts have warned. When Microsoft decided to... More...
The latest version of AOL Instant Messenger introduces secure instant messages, as AOL attempts to improve its appeal to businesses America Online released on Monday an updated version of its AOL Instant Messenger service that... More...
316Software has just release an add-on Microsoft's Windows and MSN Messenger clients that allows you to have the same great spell checking features as your Microsoft Office programs. A time has come to get... More...
With the rising popularity of instant messaging There, a company which has been working for the last four years in secrecy, have created what they tout to be the 'killer app' of the Internet. They... More...
LONDON (Reuters) - Media giant AOL Time Warner has quietly won a U.S. patent for instant messaging, a potential goldmine as the online activity rivals mobile phone text-messaging as the most popular new communication tool.... More...
Suddenly, IT execs have multiple options for managing instant messaging. Akonix Systems Inc. is debuting its L7 software, which is designed to let IT managers wrap a layer of security around popular consumer IM apps,... More...
Astronauts of the future could receive text, graphics and even video through a wearable computer built into their space suits. At present, during space walks, astronauts get their instructions via radio. ... More...
A report by Jupiter Media Metrix (the things people do studies on!) states that officer workers are doubling their time swapping real-time messages, with the number of minutes spent instant-messaging at work in the United... More...
Microsoft plans to include APIs for writing advanced instant-messaging apps in the upcoming Windows.Net server, and may build a separate real-time collaboration server to manage them. Two application program interfaces and a communications update... More...