Instant messaging software is, at its core, a communications application that is associated more with personal use than business use. There was a time not so long ago when virtually every company, if ...

Letting employees have unbridled access to free, consumer-level instant messaging applications running on their workplace computers is a security disaster waiting to happen. Instant messaging ...

The worms and viruses they traditionally have unleashed through e-mail now are wiggling their way into enterprises through unsuspecting IM users. The increasing rate at which attackers are using IM to ...

Watch out browsers, bots, e-mail and telephones--here comes the next generation of instant messaging. Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online ...

Users of Web portals, shared-interest sites, auction sites and corporate applications could see which participants are logged in to America Online Inc.’s AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and contact them, ...

It's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate communications: Executives and other employees routinely chat via notoriously insecure instant messages. America Online, Yahoo and the other providers ...

There is no question that IM is entrenched in the enterprise. More than 90 percent of businesses report IM activity, according to Osterman Research. A main reason, as we discovered in “Getting serious ...

Yahoo is planning an upgrade to its instant messaging software that will block access via third-party IM applications such as Trillian. Yahoo representatives said Wednesday that the company warned ...

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 ...

The world of instant messaging is crowded and becoming even more so. It began with ICQ (does anybody use it today?), which was closely followed by AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. More recently ...

Google Inc. is helping to extend an open instant messaging protocol so that IM applications based on it will have a standard method for multimedia communications. Google is contributing to multimedia ...