The company, which has been quietly working on an instant messaging component for its iPlanet e-commerce software, will debut the product at an Oct. 22 event. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Yahoo on Monday is expected to launch a makeover of its popular instant-messaging software, just days after similar moves by rivals America Online and Microsoft. Called "The All New Yahoo Messenger," ...

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 ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is on the verge to be mainstream among the Fortune 1000. Look no further than the largest software company in the world to see evidence of VoIP adoption. If you leave a voice ...

NEW YORK — In a new round of jockeying in the competitive instant messaging business, AOL Time Warner and IBM’s Lotus division have agreed to test the compatibility of their messaging software. At the ...

Microsoft is making changes to its MSN instant messaging service that will lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft’s own Messenger ...