Microsoft is expected to reveal plans Tuesday for the first major update of its corporate instant-messaging server. The software giant will begin accepting applications for a limited beta test of Live ...

Sun Microsystems next month will release an instant messaging server that will become the foundation component of the company’s real-time collaborative business platform. With Sun One Instant ...

The latest version of Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server, introduced at Cebit on Friday, supports enterprise instant messaging and supports the development of applications that ...

It never ceases to amaze me how popular instant messaging has become. Even if you decide that instant messaging has no place on your corporate network, chances are your users will take things into ...

Instant messaging is unique among computer-based messaging systems because it is not based on the sort of store-and-forward message handling mechanism used by e-mail. Rather, it operates in real time ...

It has been quiet on the Office Communications Server (OCS) front since Microsoft released OCS 2007 last year. (OCS is Microsoft’s all-in-one enterprise instant ...

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

This is a good time for open-source communication systems. The decentralized, free software, Twitter-esque social network Mastodon seems to be doing rather well. And now Wire, the end-to-end encrypted ...

Five Across Inc. has upgraded its workgroup instant messaging client by adding RSS support and developed its first workgroup instant messaging server, the Palo Alto, California company announced ...

My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...