Last semester, high school English teacher Sara Goodman was correcting essays on "To Kill A Mockingbird." One student wrote about plot developments that happened "b4 Bob Ewell died." Jeff Stanton, an ...

These days, we take internet-based chatting for granted. We're spoiled by a massive (and admittedly fragmented) ecosystem of direct messaging (DM) services on our phones and PCs, ranging from WhatsApp ...

Instant messaging vendor WiredRed Software Corp. recently signed a contract with the Labor Department in what the company believes is the single largest commercial application of instant messaging.

A recent report from Burton Group, "Instant Messaging: It's Not Just Idle Chatter," has highlighted the necessity of creating policies to govern the use of instant messaging (IM) within a company.

Google this week is expected to introduce its own instant messaging system that may be compatible with third party services such as Apple's iChat. Citing sources "familiar with the service," the Los ...

83 percent of respondents monitor work tasks outside working hours, while 85 percent said they respond to messages on instant ...