The company issues patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

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 ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Web-based instant messaging service Meebo connects to any and every IM chat client you can shake an avatar at, and now the popular in-browser chat application integrates ...

The world of instant messaging is crowded and becoming even more so. It began with ICQ (does anybody use it today?), which was closely followed by AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. More recently ...

The world of instant messaging is crowded and becoming even more so. It began with ICQ (does anybody use it today?), which was closely followed by AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. More recently ...

If you conduct business from different computers via instant messenger every day like I do, one central place to search and refer to your chat transcripts would come in way handy - and the IMSmarter ...

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 ...

As a toddler of a Mac switcher, I still have the stray folder or two of legacy files from my days mucking through the morass of the PC experience. One of the files I’ve guarded most carefully was my ...

These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant messaging network. Instead of having the AIM and Yahoo Messenger chat programs ...