Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. IM users, as my colleague Alec ...

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. will embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging (IM) tool now available through MSN readily available on a user’s desktop, the software giant ...

Microsoft Corp. said last week that it will make its instant messaging (IM) tool available on users’ desktops in the Windows XP operating system. In addition, Windows Messenger, scheduled for release ...

Even though more knowledge companies are pushing for a full-time return to the office for their staff, collaboration challenges are becoming a major focus, with leaders struggling with collaboration ...

As popular as instant messaging has become, most enterprises have neither policy nor technology in place for securing IM. Here's expert advice for getting the message. At the same time, only 10 ...

Consider this scenario: You have your whole staff assembled for a planning meeting. People have their laptops and Blackberries to take notes and respond to urgent e-mails. Two employees in the back of ...