Industries thrive when there is just one standard to adopt. E-mail has become much more pervasive because of the SMTP protocol; the video industry grew quickly because VHS won out over beta; IBM ...

doing fine on their own. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, publicized a flaw in AOL Time Warner's messaging application a week ago. Because ...

When America Online closed its door on efforts to standardize instant messaging, a new one may have opened for Jabber. Jabber, the XML-based instant messaging application that interoperates with ...

Apple is adding to the iMessage instant messaging service a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol named PQ3, designed to defend encryption from quantum attacks. iMessage is the default communication ...

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ -- the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client -- will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly ...

LayerZero Labs, a web3 messaging protocol, has closed a $120 million Series B round, raising its valuation to $3 billion from $1 billion, the company said on Tuesday. Unlike Web 2.0 messaging ...

The Enterprise AIM game plan has been public since last spring when AOL said it was working with Verisign on encrypted instant messaging. The consumer product has been downloaded by tens of millions ...

Unstoppable Domains now allows owners of .crypto, .polygon and other Web3 usernames to send messages to each other through multiple messaging apps. Unstoppable Domains (UD) has launched an instant ...