Text messaging and instant messaging are similar because they are both used to send text messages. However, text messaging ("texting") uses the cellular phone service, whereas instant messaging ...

Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into an instant messaging (IM) service. Unlike email, messages are sent immediately, whereas email can be queued up in a mail ...

Instant messaging is booming. Almost everywhere you look, people are typing messages to friends and work colleagues at a frantic pace. These are not e-mails but rather short messages that often travel ...

If the faithful readers of this column had instant messaging, I could tell them right now to read this. Even though I’m guessing most of them are more electronically savvy than I am, good money ...

As more corporate users add instant messaging to their arsenal of communications tools, IT and security experts face the challenge of managing, securing and archiving this data. More than one-quarter ...