Online chat applications will continue, but one of its first forms will be dead on Dec. 15, 2017. AOL wrote Friday on its AOL Instant Messenger page that after 20 years of running, AIM will shut down.

NEW YORK (AP) — AOL has announced that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. An article on AOL’s website posted Friday says AOL Instant ...

The fact that the company formerly known as America Online will discontinue its Dial-up service next month has prompted two kinds of reactions on the internet that it pioneered. First: Wait, AOL ...

A buffer-overflow vulnerability in the latest version of America Online Inc.’s popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) chat software could let remote attackers break into a victim’s system and execute ...

AOL has upgraded its popular AIM instant messaging service with new features like the ability to send messages to offline users and to store IM sessions in a PC. In AIM 6.0, AOL also doubled the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - AOL is giving its AIM instant-messaging software a new look and new features in hopes of stanching an ongoing exodus of users who have turned to texting and other online messaging ...

Internet service provider America Online Inc. (AOL) is taking aggressive steps to combat spam and close a security loophole by turning off a Microsoft Corp. Windows feature that spammers are ...

A new security vulnerability in America Online Inc.’s Instant Messenger (AIM) program could allow an attacker to run a program on a user’s computer. AOL has fixed the vulnerability on its servers, ...

Last month, Sean Parker of Napster fame launched Airtime. Amid the hoopla of the launch — attended, for some reason, by Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg — Parker told an anecdote about meeting his business ...

NEW YORK (AP) - AOL has announced that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. An article on AOL's website posted Friday says AOL Instant ...