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.

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.

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.

Jan. 12 -- Instant Messaging is on the fast track to becoming the latest killer app for Internet technology. A cross between e-mail, Internet chats and beepers — with a smidgen of Napster and ...

In this article we are going to list the 15 most popular instant messaging apps. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 most popular instant messaging apps. I am sure many of the people who are ...

Online marketers are combining the power of instant messaging with peer-to-peer networks such as Napster to create a new wave of Web advertising some call more invasive than spam.

Instant messaging is hard. 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 ...

After October 31st, Chinese users chatting on the instant messaging network will have to use Skype, not the Live Messenger client,... Ars Staff – Aug 29, 2014 5:04 pm UTC. 62.

As instant messaging has rapidly become a fixture in desktop computing, security mavens have focused more closely on the security problems posed by the relatively young application.

Instant messaging is, for the most part, a less secure way to communicate than corporate e-mail, especially if one is using a public instant messaging system offered by a commercial provider.

Now, instant messaging is everywhere -- computers, PDAs, cell phones and even some high-tech watches. And these days, IM makes a lot of sense for everyone -– from grade school students and busy ...