Before Microsoft and Yahoo finally made their respective instant messaging platforms compatible, they took numerous steps to improve the overall level of security for the combined 350 million user community.
Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.
A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer.
Commonwealth Bank customers have been targeted by phishers in a scam that combines a clever social engineering lure sent over instant messaging application ICQ.
Analyst group Gartner has warned its customers to take extra security precautions as companies such as IBM and Microsoft begin allowing federated access to both corporate and public instant messaging services.
Instant messaging is still used mostly for personal chitchat in offices, according to a new survey.
Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.
Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.
Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.
AOL, MSN and Yahoo will see their sway over instant messaging wane as corporate IT managers get their hands on the technology, says Microsoft.
Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.
MSN Messenger 6 is a fun, exciting way to chat. Current users should upgrade.
Microsoft's MSN unit shows screen shots of its new messenger application and sets a mid-year timeframe for its release.
MSN Messenger 6, which includes ramped-up multimedia features, has been made available for download in its first public beta version.
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