There are a lot of instant messaging apps available these days, and we’re here to check out some of the best ones. Instant messaging became normal a long time ago, and not that many people use SMS ...

At work we're about to include about 20 - 30 semi-computer literate computer users into a workgroup that needs to be able to instant message us (they won't message each other, just us). These are ...

The Internet was created for communication, but it wasn’t created for the type of communication I’m going to talk about. Instant messaging has totally changed the way we communicate directly with ...

Adium is the best chat client available for the Mac OS. Period. It also happens to be 100 percent open source. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and ...

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 ...