The company, which has been quietly working on an instant messaging component for its iPlanet e-commerce software, will debut the product at an Oct. 22 event. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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 ...

As popular as instant messaging has become, most enterprises have neither policy nor technology in place for securing IM. Here's expert advice for getting the message. At the same time, only 10 ...

We’ve all heard it before: “Remote work is the new normal.” Virtual meetings have become common place across the business landscape and an increasing number of employees are opting for pajamas over ...

The real-time, text-based conversation experience known as “instant messaging” seems brand-new. But, believe it or not, I first experienced “IM” way back in 1985. At the time I was working for the ...

Some users and experts are looking beyond the interoperability wars between instant messaging (IM) services to companies like Jabber.com Inc. that can add applications and content to the IM client.

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

Consider this scenario: You have your whole staff assembled for a planning meeting. People have their laptops and Blackberries to take notes and respond to urgent e-mails. Two employees in the back of ...

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...

Even though more knowledge companies are pushing for a full-time return to the office for their staff, collaboration challenges are becoming a major focus, with leaders struggling with collaboration ...

Microsoft Corp. will embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging (IM) tool now available through MSN readily available on a user’s desktop, the software giant ...