This spring, America Online Inc. announced that it was working on a new version of instant messaging that would be custom-made for businesses. "Corporations are asking for it," says AOL spokeswoman ...

America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Thursday said it had launched services that let users conduct audio conference calls and share online presentations over its popular ...

MIAMI – Yahoo Inc. has decided to ditch its fee-based instant messaging service for business users, acknowledging that the development of this type of offering lies beyond its core strength as a ...

Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL Wednesday announced enhancements to their respective instant messaging services for businesses at the opening day of the Fall 2003 Instant Messaging Planet Conference and Expo ...

Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. IM users, as my colleague Alec ...

It began as a simple way for teenagers to swap brief, instantaneous messages over the Internet -- an electronic medium of courtship, venting and ribbing. But in four years, instant messaging has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc said on Friday it plans to buy privately held Jabber Inc, which specializes in instant messaging software, to bolster its own line of Internet-based ...