Consumer instant messaging products,most notably, AOL's Instant Messenger,have addicted millions of users who have taken their IM habit from home to work, where security concerns immediately cropped ...

Consumer IM products such AOL Time Warner's AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), have made millions of users addicts, who then take their habit to work, where security concerns immediately crop up. Now, ...

Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...

Hello, long time reader, first time poster! My company is looking for a corporate instant messaging program, and I'm looking for some suggestions. I've spent quite a few hours "googling" corporate IM ...

If you were born anywhere between 1981 and 1996, you might remember an internet that's vastly different from the one we use today. Along with experiencing a smorgasbord of '80s and '90s nostalgia, ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...

People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again. As the recent scandals involving former Republican congressman Mark Foley and Hewlett-Packard Co. have brought to ...

FaceTime Communications is the latest in a series of companies that are releasing products to make instant messaging programs more secure. Since instant messaging has become a sort of underground form ...

Instant messaging, the quicker-than-e-mail alternative for online communication, is moving rapidly from teenagers' bedrooms to mainstream America. And with it, IM is bringing a dark new legion of ...

The rapidly expanding canon of research on instant messaging grew once anew on Wednesday when the Pew Internet & American Life Project released its take on the surging medium. The report arrived a ...

A new breed of computer worm could spread and multiply thanks to a software bug discovered in the latest version of AOL instant messenger (IM), according to a US-based team of researchers. The problem ...

ROCK ISLAND -- From learning about campus life to application questions, current and potential Augustana College students can receive answers right at their computer. The admissions department is ...