As users are exposed to an increasing variety of mobile communication forms--mobile e-mail, voicemail, SMS, and, of course, voice--managing one's availability, or presence, becomes important. Wireless ...

That’s where instant messaging applications like Digsby, Pidgin or Trillian come in. These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant ...

Instant messaging is alive and well in the workplace. We tested four enterprise IM products, looking at the business-critical elements you should consider Few things in life are more frustrating than ...

Watch out browsers, bots, e-mail and telephones--here comes the next generation of instant messaging. Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online ...

My former supervisor and I used to rely on instant messaging as a critical application to get our jobs done. As Web site managers, we could run through the site code together in one window and in ...

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 ...

Yahoo yesterday announced a new public beta version of its Yahoo Messenger application. Leading the instant-messaging industry in time spent per user, at least according to recent reports, the latest ...

If, his reasoning goes, one wants to use the basic mechanisms of presence for more than just an instant messaging application, then it just makes sense to use the same protocol that one is using ...