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 ...

I couldn’t imagine a day without firing up my instant message of client. In our fast-paced world, the rapid response of e-mail is not fast enough for many of us. There is no way to know if the person ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems has updated its instant messaging server software with support for a nascent standard called Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP. The technology is designed to bridge ...

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 ...

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 ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...

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 ...

Five Across has upgraded its workgroup instant messaging client by adding RSS support and developed its first workgroup instant messaging server, the Palo Alto, California company plans to announce ...

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The perpetual open-standards stalemate–marked by a self-sustaining whirlpool of repetitive press and rebuttal–has gone on so long now that the instant messaging category has become far less ...