In the age of instant messaging, you’d think that most grievances would be settled with a quick, private “ping.” However, ...

King County Councilmembers Reagan Dunn and Rod Dembowski introduced an ordinance Thursday to end the county’s practice of automatically deleting instant messaging sent between county employees. The ...

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ -- the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client -- will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly ...

Google has announced its instant messaging platform, Hangouts has been retired giving way to a similar and more improved messaging app, Google Chats. Earlier this year, Google announced it will be ...

"I think Mark is doing the right thing by going into rehab," Tim Gordon, vice president of an online concierge service, typed quickly to a friend. Sitting at his office computer, Gordon was ...

One of the internet's oldest instant messaging services, ICQ, is closing down. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images One of the oldest, still-running online platforms is finally closing its doors ...

A recent report from Burton Group, "Instant Messaging: It's Not Just Idle Chatter," has highlighted the necessity of creating policies to govern the use of instant messaging (IM) within a company.

If you've been using a PC and going online since the days of dial-up modems and first-gen broadband, then you'll probably remember ICQ - one of the very first instant messaging apps for Windows. If ...

There was a time when ICQ—that's "I Seek You"—was as ubiquitous as mIRC and a good FTP program. But after nearly three decades of operation (much of it, I'm sorry to say, in obscurity), the end has ...

Picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection come to the AppStore with Palringo’s Rich Messaging Service (RMS), a free application ...