A once-popular but now extinct "buddy" on America Online's Instant Messenger that freely answered questions on movie times, weather and stocks is poised to make a comeback next month--but at a price.

Facebook has started merging Messenger with Instagram chat, which appears to be the first step towards the unified, end-to-end, instant chat service that Facebook has promised. The first changes ...

If you were a user of the World Wide Web between the late 1990s and early 2000s, there’s a good chance you used AOL Instant Messenger, otherwise known as AIM. From picking out a username that was ...

A celluloid version of America Online's instant messaging service will play a critical role in the plot of the upcoming movie "Cry Wolf" -- which AOL currently is promoting on its real instant ...

Now that we are glued to screens even more than we were before you can’t help but think about the power of technology every day, especially when it comes to communicating with our colleagues, friends, ...

America Online Inc., Nokia Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. together have released a version of the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service built into the Nokia 3390 mobile phone, the companies ...

Windows Movie Maker and MSN Messenger were two of Microsoft's most iconic Windows programs. The former was a casual video editing app, while the latter was an instant messaging (IM) chat service.

There are untold numbers of instant messaging networks (not even taking SMS into consideration)—with companies like Google having, all by themselves, created a half dozen competing applications and ...

WASHINGTON – AMERICA Online’s dominance of the instant messaging market through its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ services has attracted the attention of federal investigators reviewing AOL’s ...

AOL announced Friday that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. The program will still function until Dec. 15 After that date, users won't be ...