Microsoft said this week that MSN users should switch over to its free MSN Messenger instant messaging service as a replacement for the chat rooms, which are scheduled to close down in 28 countries on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook's chat feature is normally used from the Facebook website, but you can also use Facebook chat from within a variety of instant messaging programs. Facebook's chat uses the standard XMPP, also ...