Microsoft is expected to reveal plans Tuesday for the first major update of its corporate instant-messaging server. The software giant will begin accepting applications for a limited beta test of Live ...

Sun Microsystems next month will release an instant messaging server that will become the foundation component of the company’s real-time collaborative business platform. With Sun One Instant ...

It never ceases to amaze me how popular instant messaging has become. Even if you decide that instant messaging has no place on your corporate network, chances are your users will take things into ...

The companies, through their iPlanet software collaboration, are quietly working on instant messaging software for businesses, a market segment where Microsoft and IBM lead. Stephen Shankland worked ...

My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

Five Across Inc. has upgraded its workgroup instant messaging client by adding RSS support and developed its first workgroup instant messaging server, the Palo Alto, California company announced ...

Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some ...

Instant messaging is booming. Almost everywhere you look, people are typing messages to friends and work colleagues at a frantic pace. These are not e-mails but rather short messages that often travel ...

Are the people in your company using AIM, MS Messenger, or other instant messaging programs to help get their work done? If they are--whoa! It's time to think about exactly what's going on here.