Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey developed Bitchat, a privacy-focused messaging app that works offline via Bluetooth without ...

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.

Instant messaging is a staple of the modern communication toolkit. Once you were locked into using the client provided by the service you preferred, but these days a variety of excellent cross ...

Instant messaging is still a great communications tool with immediacy and a modicum of intimacy. But no one has challenged AOL with a great application, and that is a shame.

After October 31st, Chinese users chatting on the instant messaging network will have to use Skype, not the Live Messenger client,... Ars Staff – Aug 29, 2014 5:04 pm UTC. 62.

WhatsApp has reportedly replaced its native Windows app with a web-based version in the latest beta update. This means users ...

With the latest WhatsApp Beta for Windows, Meta seems to be ditching the native app in favour of a slower, more resource ...

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.

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.