SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Mobile instant messaging edged closer to reality in the U.S. yesterday, when Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo Inc. and Reston, Va.-based network operator Motient Corp. announced ...

ICQ, an instant messaging service that was at one time very popular in the US and other parts of the world in the early days of the consumer PC internet, is officially closing up shop. The official ...

America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Thursday said it had launched services that let users conduct audio conference calls and share online presentations over its popular ...

Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. joined forces yesterday on the instant messaging front, allowing users of their systems to communicate with each other and rivaling AOL's messaging system for the top ...

Eight of the nation’s largest financial institutions are deploying a specialized, secure instant-messaging service from start-up Communicator Inc., which also operates the BondHub and SyndicateHub ...

Google will continue expanding beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory when it launches on Wednesday an instant messaging (IM) service with voice communications ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government tightened control over popular instant messaging services Thursday after telling South Korea that access to some foreign services was blocked because they were used ...

Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in China, plans to introduce an instant-messaging service, to be called Baidu Hi. Baidu said development work on Baidu Hi has been going on for nearly one ...

Akonix L7 Enterprise 2.0 is an easy, affordable way to impose corporate usage policies on public IM services You’ve seen the high-profile role that e-mail records have played in recent accounting ...

If you've been using a PC and going online since the days of dial-up modems and first-gen broadband, then you'll probably remember ICQ - one of the very first instant messaging apps for Windows. If ...

For messaging, though, some use proprietary intranet-type programs that allow communication only within the organization. Others imported one of the top instant-messaging services created for ...

Spain is proposing to tax companies providing calls and instant messaging services, such as Whatsapp, based on their revenue, a senior government official said on Friday.