The days of companies using unsecure consumer technology for instant messaging are numbered, according to AOL and online conferencing company WebEx. AIM Pro Business Edition (PBE), launched on ...

Verizon Business is offering hosted instant messaging services for companies looking to secure, control and monitor employee usage of internal and public real-time communications systems. The Hosted ...

Yahoo and MSN Messenger instant messaging users will have to wait a bit longer for the promised interoperability between the two services. Yahoo and Microsoft said late last year that they would ...

Google Inc. continues to expand beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory with the launch today of an instant messaging service with voice communications capabilities.

Omnipod, which provides hosted instant message (IM) services to companies of all sizes, is preparing several enhancements to its platform, including the additions of a Web-based client, a telephony ...

Instant messaging, a type of communication long dominated by chatty teens, has become the latest front in an escalating war among big Internet companies competing to make themselves indispensable to ...

America Online’s ICQ unit has upgraded its instant messaging service, adding two types of voice communication and improving video transmission. The service’s new version, ICQ 5, has a new PC-to-PC ...

Instant messaging (IM) -- whether companies view it as a worker productivity booster or a security threat -- is a popular communication application that many workers use, with or without permission, ...

Verizon Business announced a hosted instant messaging service today focused on the needs of business users that includes network security and reliability. Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon ...

A recent report from Burton Group, "Instant Messaging: It's Not Just Idle Chatter," has highlighted the necessity of creating policies to govern the use of instant messaging (IM) within a company.