AIM is now away, permanently. AOL announced back in October that its beloved Instant Messenger service would be discontinued. Sadly, that day has arrived. AIM may be ded, but our memories will ...

Instant messaging (IM) became popular after Israeli-based ICQ debuted in 1996, which was later acquired by AOL. There are more than three dozen IM services, and WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger ...

AOL has launched Open AIM 2.0, giving developers access to the AIM instant messaging network, which now supports third-party chat services and instant messaging applications designed for mobile.

Since many of us use AOL Instant Messenger extensively to communicate on deadline (and with a growing number of sources), I feel strangely remote whenever I'm cut off from it. I've got access on ...

according to the third annual Instant Messaging Trends Survey from AOL. Today, multiple screen names, parental IM rules for teens and rampant "away messaging" are standard across all regions ...

AOL - which originally stood for America On-Line - became the most popular e-mail service during the days of dial-up internet. It also had an instant messenger feature called AIM, which stood for ...

Yahoo was one of the first instant messaging service providers ... Oath has also shut down AIM, AOL’s equivalent messaging app, in October last year. Yahoo messenger first debuted in the ...