NEW YORK - Technology giants AOL Time Warner, Microsoft and Yahoo are squaring off for a major new turf war over users of sophisticated new instant messaging services, which hundreds of millions of ...
Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics ...
After five years of raucous debate and stop-and-start development, the Internet’s premier standards-setting body is finalizing a set of protocols that will let companies exchange instant messages with ...