Instant messaging on your network can be a productivity tool, but also a security hazard, legal minefield, and threat to worker productivity.

So instant messaging in my - and my generation's point of view - hasn't gone out fashion, it has merely changed its meaning and definition.

Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging's growing maturity.

Anoox Instant Messenger ("AIM") is a Free Service of Anoox Social network - offered for Free* via Advertising and Donation support.

Not so well-received: Though Tumblr claims its users have been wanting instant messaging for a while now, some reacted with disapproval on Tumblr's Facebook announcement of the new feature.

This delay was too long in a world of instant messaging; a world where immediate gratification is not merely expected, it's normal. 20 minutes turned into 40, and 40 turned into three hours.

Does Gmail want to be an instant messaging client? Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji ...

You probably think of instant messenger (IM) as an informal communications channel mainly used by teenagers - and you would be correct to do so. But despite limitations, a growing number of B2B ...

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of instant messaging app Telegram, plans to leave his fortune to the more than 100 children he has fathered.