Aug. 20 -- Although instant messaging is often associated with teen-agers chatting online, corporations are increasingly looking toward the tool as a way to boost worker productivity. Around 18.3 ...

Instant messaging on your network can be a productivity tool, but also a security hazard, legal minefield, and threat to worker productivity.

Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging's growing maturity.

So instant messaging in my - and my generation's point of view - hasn't gone out fashion, it has merely changed its meaning and definition.

“I think instant messaging is really an untapped resource for a lot of teachers,” says William Kist, an assistant professor of English education at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and a ...

N E W   Y O R K, July 29 -- These days, information technology has about as much buzz as a beehive in winter — except enterprise instant messaging. The noise from that corner of corporate ...

Instant messaging has enjoyed phenomenal success as a person-to-person communication tool; in some instances, it has supplanted email as the preferred means of online communication. Now ...

Online marketers are combining the power of instant messaging with peer-to-peer networks such as Napster to create a new wave of Web advertising some call more invasive than spam.

Not so well-received: Though Tumblr claims its users have been wanting instant messaging for a while now, some reacted with disapproval on Tumblr's Facebook announcement of the new feature.

The instant messaging is real, bonafide messaging (and threading) from one Tumblr user to another. But since this is such a huge launch, ...