In a poll of 50 Fortune 500 companies, Forrester Research found that nearly half expect to use instant messaging services for business in the next two years. "Instant messaging is a way to communicate ...

Instant messaging has become the latest employee productivity tool. A customer-service representative can use it as a quick and easy way to answer an inquiry, whereas a salesperson can inform a busy ...

Instant messaging (IM) -- whether companies view it as a worker productivity booster or a security threat -- is a popular communication application that many workers use, with or without permission, ...

You've typed it, deleted it and typed it again. You need to let your colleague know there's a problem with a project at work.

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 ...

Financial institutions in the UAE face a race to meet new restrictions after being warned to stop using instant messaging ...

As an IT manager, you like to think you run a tight ship. Antivirus updates come often, unsanctioned software downloads are forbidden and spam filtering is your No. 1 pastime. Then imagine your ...

It has been several years since instant messaging worked its way from teens' rooms to boardrooms. What started as an easy and hip way for youngsters to communicate with their peers has turned into an ...

While iMessage and Meta's apps dominate modern messaging, there have been many other instant messaging apps that were hugely ...