Microsoft is expected to reveal plans Tuesday for the first major update of its corporate instant-messaging server. The software giant will begin accepting applications for a limited beta test of Live ...

Sun Microsystems next month will release an instant messaging server that will become the foundation component of the company’s real-time collaborative business platform. With Sun One Instant ...

My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

The companies, through their iPlanet software collaboration, are quietly working on instant messaging software for businesses, a market segment where Microsoft and IBM lead. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Sun will launch a stand-alone, corporate edition of its instant messaging add-on this spring that supports Linux and offers tighter integration with the company's Portal Server, said Jennifer ...

Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some ...

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

America Online Inc. said it’s close to releasing an interoperable version of its instant messenging and ICQ real-time chat services. The Dulles, Va.-based Internet service provider filed a status ...

As more corporate users add instant messaging to their arsenal of communications tools, IT and security experts face the challenge of managing, securing and archiving this data. More than one-quarter ...