Microsoft said this week that MSN users should switch over to its free MSN Messenger instant messaging service as a replacement for the chat rooms, which are scheduled to close down in 28 countries on ...

What happens when your team needs to have a conversation, yet coworkers are scattered across town or even around the world? Conference calls can be pricey and inefficient: Talkers often overlap, no ...

Facebook's chat feature is normally used from the Facebook website, but you can also use Facebook chat from within a variety of instant messaging programs. Facebook's chat uses the standard XMPP, also ...

As part of its continuous push to market its AOL Instant Messenger program, America Online is testing a new instant-chat robot that answers questions from AIM users about weather and stocks. In ...

Over a year ago, Facebook announced that they planned to support Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber, the same protocol that Google Talk uses, so people could use Facebook Chat in their favorite IM ...

Pushbullet, the force that binds your devices together, has gotten a huge update today. Now, you can chat with friends (or send messages to yourself) when you push a file. It’s also easier to send ...

Nadim Kobeissi, a 21-year-old Lebanese student in Canada, has been diligently working on a simple, secure way for people to chat on the web and keep their conversations away from prying eyes. A ...

Adult-rated chat rooms have been moved off the main interface of Yahoo!'s Instant Messenger client a week after the software was upgraded. The new Messenger client V3.5 highlighted conversations on ...

Ever try to have an e-mail conversation? It works something like this: You and a friend are both online. You send an e-mail, then wait patiently (or impatiently) while watching your inbox for the ...

Google has opened up its Gmail chat feature so that it works with AOL, in recognition that in order to draw users it has to embrace the granddaddy of IM. Google’s Gmail service has caught on in many ...