The following is a typical instant message chat between Jack Olson, president and CEO of Waukesha-based Fortec, and his Philippine partner. ECMgm: Hello ...

Tools like Mockly have existed since the dawn of instant messaging, but they generally aren't the most user-friendly apps.

How to set up your own private instant messaging server In this video tutorial, we spin up Prosody, an XMPP server that runs on anything.

Specifically, we need to discuss using periods at the end of texts and instant messages. (Again.) Even though many of us use periods all day, every day as we write emails, reports or articles, for ...

Major League Baseball announced last week that it will use instant replay more often during the 2014 season. Umpires will check video replays to see whether they got the call right on all sorts of ...

The use of instant messaging (IM) can save a lot of time in the office. Despite its ease and quickness, there are still etiquette rules to follow.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 16 -- Invertix Corp., an Annandale-based start-up that makes Internet software for mobile phones, today demonstrated its first product--a system that can send instant ...

Want to play spy and use the e-quivalent of disappearing ink? $40 will get you a system that lets you send self-destructing messages through a company called VaporStream. In a post-Gramm-Leach ...

This week's how-to was inspired by a post over on www.boingboing.net regarding sending a SMS from AOL's Instant Messenger. We thought we'd show you how to do this on a Mac or PC with AIM (AOL ...

WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out instant video message support for those times when you just want to send a short video clip to someone.