The worms and viruses they traditionally have unleashed through e-mail now are wiggling their way into enterprises through unsuspecting IM users. The increasing rate at which attackers are using IM to ...

Letting employees have unbridled access to free, consumer-level instant messaging applications running on their workplace computers is a security disaster waiting to happen. Instant messaging ...

Watch out browsers, bots, e-mail and telephones--here comes the next generation of instant messaging. Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online ...

It's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate communications: Executives and other employees routinely chat via notoriously insecure instant messages. America Online, Yahoo and the other providers ...

Yahoo is planning an upgrade to its instant messaging software that will block access via third-party IM applications such as Trillian. Yahoo representatives said Wednesday that the company warned ...

IMlogic Inc. today unveiled its latest product to help corporate IT managers gain control over instant messaging (IM) programs within their businesses. The Boston-based company announced an IM Manager ...

There is no question that IM is entrenched in the enterprise. More than 90 percent of businesses report IM activity, according to Osterman Research. A main reason, as we discovered in “Getting serious ...

Google Inc. is helping to extend an open instant messaging protocol so that IM applications based on it will have a standard method for multimedia communications. Google is contributing to multimedia ...

That’s where instant messaging applications like Digsby, Pidgin or Trillian come in. These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant ...

As users are exposed to an increasing variety of mobile communication forms--mobile e-mail, voicemail, SMS, and, of course, voice--managing one's availability, or presence, becomes important. Wireless ...