Instant messaging software is, at its core, a communications application that is associated more with personal use than business use. There was a time not so long ago when virtually every company, if ...

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 ...

It's getting easier and easier to get third-party applications on the iPhone thanks to a wealth of tools that allow easy package installation and iPhone modification. As less technically-inclined ...

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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 ...

Instant messaging software appeared on your network because it was fun to use and easy for even inexperienced users to install. But this seemingly frivolous application can be a full-fledged ...

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 ...

Users of Web portals, shared-interest sites, auction sites and corporate applications could see which participants are logged in to America Online Inc.’s AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and contact them, ...