A once-popular but now extinct "buddy" on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times, weather and stocks is poised to make a comeback next month--but at a price.

With e-mail systems overloaded by spam, always-on Internet connections on PDAs and cell phones becoming the norm, and superfast communication in vogue, your instant-messaging (IM) application may be ...

AOL on Friday said farewell to its once ubiquitous Instant Messenger service, which gained popularity in the late 1990s and boasted 36 million active users at its peak in 2001.Say goodbye to buddy ...

NEW YORK - Technology giants AOL Time Warner, Microsoft and Yahoo are squaring off for a major new turf war over users of sophisticated new instant messaging services, which hundreds of millions of ...

Pluggable and free Miranda instant messenger lets you chat using all the popular IM protocols and customize your experience with a wide variety of feature-enhancing plugins. The bare-bones Miranda ...

- Plus many other features such as even know via a real time animation notice that the other party is typing Anoox Instant Messenger will enable people using it to Save Big in lost productivity, since ...

Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks. Just ask Yahoo and America Online. Millions of people use Yahoo Messenger and AOL ...

Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. IM users, as my colleague Alec ...

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...

Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...