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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Before the days of iMessage, WhatsApp, and RCS texting, instant messaging (IM'ing) ruled the roost - here are six iconic clients that defined the era.

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, ...

Google this week is expected to introduce its own instant messaging system that may be compatible with third party services such as Apple's iChat. Citing sources "familiar with the service," the Los ...

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 ...

America Online Inc. said it’s close to releasing an interoperable version of its instant messenging and ICQ real-time chat services. The Dulles, Va.-based Internet service provider filed a status ...

The new feature offers end-to-end encrypted private messaging for anyone with a cb.id username, .eth domain or Lens ID. Coinbase Wallet users can now send instant messages to each other using their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com King County Councilmembers Reagan Dunn and Rod Dembowski introduced an ...