Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging's growing maturity. Software ...

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 ...

If the faithful readers of this column had instant messaging, I could tell them right now to read this. Even though I’m guessing most of them are more electronically savvy than I am, good money ...

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 ...

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

Text messaging and instant messaging are similar because they are both used to send text messages. However, text messaging ("texting") uses the cellular phone service, whereas instant messaging ...