My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

America Online has released a version of its popular instant messaging product aimed at the corporate market. The Enterprise AIM Services suite, now available, will allow corporations to manage ...

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 ...

WhatsApp, bought by Facebook in February 2014, now occupies 200 minutes a week of its billion users , and is forecast to surpass 3.6 billion users by 2020 – that’s about half of humanity. Messaging is ...

As more corporate users add instant messaging to their arsenal of communications tools, IT and security experts face the challenge of managing, securing and archiving this data. More than one-quarter ...

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the rise of remote and hybrid work, more employees are now using instant messaging apps to communicate with colleagues, vendors, partners and suppliers, ...

Instant Messaging is one of the great undeveloped applications of the Net. In use by millions of people at work and at home, it remains much the same as its anarchistic antecedent, Internet Relay Chat ...

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 ...

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 ...