The last trace of Microsoft's once-dominant Messenger network will disappear at the end of October, reports TechNode. After October 31st, Chinese users chatting on the instant messaging network will ...

Though the official iPhone AppStore is only months away, developers are still delivering some incredible native applications built under the unofficial "jailbreak" umbrella. The latest is "fring," an ...

If you find yourself doing more and more instant messaging through Twitter these days, you need TwIM for iPhone. This free and simple app is powered by Twitter’s direct messages, and it makes it easy ...

Zoho has added some features to its instant messaging client, Zoho Chat, and dubbed it version 2.0. It remains a decent but unspectacular Web-based IM client, but it has a nice business slant to it, ...

Instant messaging (IM) is now a mainstream communication platform for Web users, according to new data collected by America Online and Opinion Research Corporation, and the new usage figures are ...

Tencent, the company behind China's most popular instant messaging client QQ, is planning to launch its own Android smartphone in the country. Tencent, the company behind China’s most popular instant ...

The Chinese company behind the country’s most popular instant messaging client QQ has raised the ante in its feud with a domestic security firm. On Wednesday, Tencent announced QQ users would need to ...

COMMENTARY--What a bunch of crybabies! I am talking about the whiners who feel America Online is doing something terrible by locking out the users of Trillian, a multi-service instant-messaging client ...

Does Gmail want to be an instant messaging client? Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji ...

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ -- the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client -- will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly ...