Hello, long time reader, first time poster! My company is looking for a corporate instant messaging program, and I'm looking for some suggestions. I've spent quite a few hours "googling" corporate IM ...

Although many offices prevent employees from accessing programs such as AIM or Yahoo Messenger, sometimes you just need to access your buddy list to chat with friends or family. With meebo, you can ...

Consumer instant messaging products,most notably, AOL's Instant Messenger,have addicted millions of users who have taken their IM habit from home to work, where security concerns immediately cropped ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...

The Enterprise AIM game plan has been public since last spring when AOL said it was working with Verisign on encrypted instant messaging. The consumer product has been downloaded by tens of millions ...

When employees started downloading free instant-messaging programs to use at work, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC's initial response was to pull the plug on the popular online communications. Pam Housley, ...

FaceTime Communications is the latest in a series of companies that are releasing products to make instant messaging programs more secure. Since instant messaging has become a sort of underground form ...

To understand instant messaging today, users should look at the history of e-mail, panelists said yesterday at the Instant Messaging Planet Conference in Boston. “IM is kind of like the way e-mail was ...

Instant messaging, the quicker-than-e-mail alternative for online communication, is moving rapidly from teenagers' bedrooms to mainstream America. And with it, IM is bringing a dark new legion of ...