Industries thrive when there is just one standard to adopt. E-mail has become much more pervasive because of the SMTP protocol; the video industry grew quickly because VHS won out over beta; IBM ...

After five years of raucous debate and stop-and-start development, the Internet’s premier standards-setting body is finalizing a set of protocols that will let companies exchange instant messages with ...

The world of workforce communication looks vastly different from 2020, including an increased blur between personal and business communications due to remote work environments and access to instant ...

America Online Inc. said it’s close to releasing an interoperable version of its instant messenging and ICQ real-time chat services. The Dulles, Va.-based Internet service provider filed a status ...

Instant Messaging has changed the way we communicate using the Web, but has failed as yet to cross over to wireless. Sonim Technologies believe they have the technology to change this by adding voice ...