Consider this scenario: You have your whole staff assembled for a planning meeting. People have their laptops and Blackberries to take notes and respond to urgent e-mails. Two employees in the back of ...

As an IT manager, you like to think you run a tight ship. Antivirus updates come often, unsanctioned software downloads are forbidden and spam filtering is your No. 1 pastime. Then imagine your ...

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 ...

Instant messaging is booming. Almost everywhere you look, people are typing messages to friends and work colleagues at a frantic pace. These are not e-mails but rather short messages that often travel ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Instant messaging -- real-time text conversation that takes place in private online chat areas -- is mounting a challenge to conventional e-mail in the workplace. Some 11 million ...

News and Notes tech contributor Mario Armstrong talks about instant-messaging software and what it could be hiding from you on your own computer. This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. You may want ...

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 ...

New version of Instant Messaging software will let people share and interact with one another's digital playlists, it has been suggested. Yahoo currently has designs on merging Musicmatch with their ...