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

These days, we take internet-based chatting for granted. We're spoiled by a massive (and admittedly fragmented) ecosystem of direct messaging (DM) services on our phones and PCs, ranging from WhatsApp ...

Google will continue expanding beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory when it launches on Wednesday an instant messaging (IM) service with voice communications ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Despite the work full-service firms have put into Web-based client services, there's one function that's still missing -- the ability to chat in real time via text-based message screens. The term for ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. is adding video capabilities to its instant messaging service as it tries to avoid being left in the dust by America Online and Microsoft. Instant messaging is one of ...