Jeremie Miller is a revered figure among developers, best known for building XMPP, the open source protocol that powers most of the Instant Messaging apps in the world. Now Miller has raised funds ...

But in the contentious world of instant messaging, getting giants such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo to play ball is no small feat. All three remain closed networks to one another, and the issue of ...

Jeremie Miller, creator of the Jabber instant messaging system, blames the lack of a remedy on the cutthroat competition between the IM service providers and their desire to keep their competitors ...

Newcomer Aimster is taking two of the most popular activities on the Internet, file-sharing and instant messaging, and combining their features to provide mainstream users with secure file-sharing ...

Instant messaging has been the last thing on its mind for years and years. I got access to dial-up 56k internet through American Online starting in middle school, right when I needed it most.

N E W   Y O R K, July 29 -- These days, information technology has about as much buzz as a beehive in winter — except enterprise instant messaging. The noise from that corner of corporate ...