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While iMessage and Meta's apps dominate modern messaging, there have been many other instant messaging apps that were hugely ...

(CNN) -- As Microsoft duels AOL for the instant messaging crown, the pressure is rising on the 20 or so active members of a nine-month-old group working on a common language for what may be the most ...

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Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the work full-service firms have put into Web-based client services, there's one function that's still missing -- the ability to chat in real time via text-based message screens. The term for ...

WhatsApp is developing a new feature to enhance user control over disappearing messages. Unlike the current fixed timers, ...