As part of its continuous push to market its AOL Instant Messenger program, America Online is testing a new instant-chat robot that answers questions from AIM users about weather and stocks. In ...

The company issues patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Web-based instant messaging service Meebo connects to any and every IM chat client you can shake an avatar at, and now the popular in-browser chat application integrates ...

If you conduct business from different computers via instant messenger every day like I do, one central place to search and refer to your chat transcripts would come in way handy - and the IMSmarter ...

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 ...

Google has opened up its Gmail chat feature so that it works with AOL, in recognition that in order to draw users it has to embrace the granddaddy of IM. Google’s Gmail service has caught on in many ...