IM

Tales In Tech History: The SMS Text Message At 25

The text (or SMS) message was once more widely used than mobile phone calls, but its use in recent years…

7 years ago

Skype Fixes Text Chat Bug That Causes Perpetual Crashes

Update remedies nasty URL fault in IM chats that caused Skype clients to crash

9 years ago

BitTorrent Releases Secret Messaging App

'Bleep' goes public, with BitTorrent promising to keep user identity anonymous by storing encryption keys and messages locally

10 years ago

Kim Dotcom Targets Skype With Encrypted Chat Rival

Fugitive millionaire delivers on promise of encrypted rival to Skype to stop government snoops

10 years ago

WhatsApp Web Arrives On Desktop

WhatsApp Web launches for desktop users, but not for iOS users due to “Apple platform limitations”

10 years ago

Number Of UK Text Messages Sent Falls For First Time

Online IM services such as WhatsApp increasingly replacing traditional SMS

11 years ago

Skype Fixes Random-IM Security Flaw

Update stops instant messages being sent to the wrong person

12 years ago

Cloudforce: Salesforce Chatter Goes Real-Time

Salesforce.com gives its Chatter social network some real time chat

13 years ago

MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn

The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead

13 years ago

IM Archiving Appliance Released By ArcMail

ArcMail for Instant Messaging is designed to bring compliance and data discovery to IM platforms

13 years ago

Symantec IM Security Cloud Addresses Compliance

IMS.cloud blocks messages that are malicious or violate corporate policy and the user is notified

13 years ago

OpenTouch UC Platform Launched By Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent’s OpenTouch platform offers communications links to any devices, plus multimedia support

13 years ago

Samsung Launches Phones And ChatON IM Service

Samsung has released details of its new Bada-based Wave handsets, as well as the ChatON IM service

13 years ago

Email Matches Voice On Readers’ Devices

eWEEK readers do email as often as voice on their mobiles. Next: which social network is best?

13 years ago

Google Chrome To Challenge Skype With WebRTC

Google Chrome is set to get real-time voice and video chat tools in the near future, thanks to WebRTC, says…

13 years ago

Review: FaceTime’s USG 3.0 Provides Employee Mangement over IM

FaceTime USG 3.0, due to be shown at the UC Expo in London this week, enables businesses to safely harness…

15 years ago