AIM, AOL’s seminal instant messenger app, just received a preview update to pull it out of obscurity and compete with other more popular chat apps like Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype and a slew of ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced a new integration with Facebook that allows millions of AIM and Facebook users to add friends and invite them to chat ...

America Online said it would allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the company's two popular IM ...

AOL is thinking about launching a service that integrates AIM, its instant message service, into other sites, as we reported earlier this month. However, sources close to the company are saying the ...

These chat apps — which can be described as cross-platform or multiprotocol IM apps — support more than one instant messaging network. Instead of having the AIM and Yahoo Messenger chat programs ...

AOL’s been going through plenty of changes within the last year, and now it looks like the veteran Internet company is refining its web products. It’s new video chat service, called AV for AIM, leaked ...

AOL has upgraded its popular AIM instant messaging service with new features like the ability to send messages to offline users and to store IM sessions in a PC. In AIM 6.0, AOL also doubled the ...

Among the notable gaps in the original iPhone functionality, one of the most prominent was instant messaging. iPhone users have long had to make do with web clients, SMS messages, or jailbreak apps.