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

These days, we take internet-based chatting for granted. We're spoiled by a massive (and admittedly fragmented) ecosystem of direct messaging (DM) services on our phones and PCs, ranging from WhatsApp ...

Nearly 5,000 first responders are taking advantage of an instant messaging service to help bridge communications gaps among federal, state and local emergency relief workers, Federal Emergency ...

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 ...

Google will continue expanding beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory when it launches on Wednesday an instant messaging (IM) service with voice communications ...

If you've been using a PC and going online since the days of dial-up modems and first-gen broadband, then you'll probably remember ICQ - one of the very first instant messaging apps for Windows. If ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger ...

Google this week is expected to introduce its own instant messaging system that may be compatible with third party services such as Apple's iChat. Citing sources "familiar with the service," the Los ...