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 ...

(CNN) -- As Microsoft duels AOL for the instant messaging crown, the pressure is rising on the 20 or so active members of a nine-month-old group working on a common language for what may be the most ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...

When America Online closed its door on efforts to standardize instant messaging, a new one may have opened for Jabber. Jabber, the XML-based instant messaging application that interoperates with ...

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 ...

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Skype, despite built-in advertising and no privacy guarantees is still a very popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) client. Indeed, Microsoft is replacing Windows Live ...

doing fine on their own. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, publicized a flaw in AOL Time Warner's messaging application a week ago. Because ...

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 ...