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 ...

The companies, through their iPlanet software collaboration, are quietly working on instant messaging software for businesses, a market segment where Microsoft and IBM lead. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner are quietly working on advanced instant messaging software for corporate customers, a market segment dominated by Microsoft and IBM. The software, which is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...