Microsoft is expected to reveal plans Tuesday for the first major update of its corporate instant-messaging server. The software giant will begin accepting applications for a limited beta test of Live ...

Sun Microsystems next month will release an instant messaging server that will become the foundation component of the company’s real-time collaborative business platform. With Sun One Instant ...

It never ceases to amaze me how popular instant messaging has become. Even if you decide that instant messaging has no place on your corporate network, chances are your users will take things into ...

This is a good time for open-source communication systems. The decentralized, free software, Twitter-esque social network Mastodon seems to be doing rather well. And now Wire, the end-to-end encrypted ...

Instant messaging is unique among computer-based messaging systems because it is not based on the sort of store-and-forward message handling mechanism used by e-mail. Rather, it operates in real time ...

Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some ...

It has been quiet on the Office Communications Server (OCS) front since Microsoft released OCS 2007 last year. (OCS is Microsoft’s all-in-one enterprise instant ...