As an IT manager, you like to think you run a tight ship. Antivirus updates come often, unsanctioned software downloads are forbidden and spam filtering is your No. 1 pastime. Then imagine your ...

News and Notes tech contributor Mario Armstrong talks about instant-messaging software and what it could be hiding from you on your own computer. This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. You may want ...

Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Instant messaging -- real-time text conversation that takes place in private online chat areas -- is mounting a challenge to conventional e-mail in the workplace. Some 11 million ...

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 ...