America Online has released a version of its popular instant messaging product aimed at the corporate market. The Enterprise AIM Services suite, now available, will allow corporations to manage ...

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, ...

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 ...

WhatsApp, bought by Facebook in February 2014, now occupies 200 minutes a week of its billion users , and is forecast to surpass 3.6 billion users by 2020 – that’s about half of humanity. Messaging is ...

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 ...

Instant messaging is booming. Almost everywhere you look, people are typing messages to friends and work colleagues at a frantic pace. These are not e-mails but rather short messages that often travel ...

As popular as instant messaging has become, most enterprises have neither policy nor technology in place for securing IM. Here's expert advice for getting the message. At the same time, only 10 ...

WASHINGTON - Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists. They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens ...