GNOME's Empathy instant messaging client will gain some impressive features in the future as it integrates with Zeitgeist and other key parts of the GNOME desktop environment. I used to be pretty ...

If you find yourself doing more and more instant messaging through Twitter these days, you need TwIM for iPhone. This free and simple app is powered by Twitter’s direct messages, and it makes it easy ...

If you were born anywhere between 1981 and 1996, you might remember an internet that's vastly different from the one we use today. Along with experiencing a smorgasbord of '80s and '90s nostalgia, ...

Picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection come to the AppStore with Palringo’s Rich Messaging Service (RMS), a free application ...

Tencent, the company behind China's most popular instant messaging client QQ, is planning to launch its own Android smartphone in the country. Tencent, the company behind China’s most popular instant ...

The major new feature of Version 10.03 is that it includes Version 4 of the GMS Instant Messenger. The native Windows IM client supplements the original Java-based IM client. Perhaps more importantly ...

Does Gmail want to be an instant messaging client? Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji ...

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 ...