NEW YORK - America Online Inc. and WebEx Communications Inc. are teaming up to provide a business version of AOL's popular AIM instant-messaging software.

The Federal Communications Commission will let AOL Time Warner Inc. add videoconferencing to its popular instant-messaging software, lifting a restriction imposed in 2001 as a condition of the mega-merger of America Online and Time Warner.

Arizona Department of Corrections officers stumbled upon a dirty syringe in a cell with a note signed by "Jimbo," and tracked him down. Sure enough, "Jimbo" had a fresh red mark on his arm and admitted the needle was his.

Arizona Department of Corrections officers stumbled upon a dirty syringe in a cell with a note signed by "Jimbo," and tracked him down. Sure enough, "Jimbo" had a fresh red mark on his arm and admitted the needle was his.

When breast-feeding advocates mobilized to push for an ordinance protecting nursing moms in Chandler, they did it mainly by e-mail.

When breast-feeding advocates mobilized to push for an ordinance protecting nursing moms in Chandler, they did it mainly by e-mail.

July 15, 2004

CHICAGO - E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder - a parent, teacher or a boss - or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Further expanding beyond its roots in Internet search, Google Inc. plans to launch a long-rumored program Wednesday that provides both text instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice chat.

Q: I need to be able to monitor my child's text messages. Do you know any sites (pay or free) that would enable me to do that? - Mike

The fight against drunken driving got two new activists Friday: The 19-year-old daughter of a Mesa woman killed in a Labor Day crash and the driver who put her in the grave.

NEW YORK - BlackBerry handheld devices will soon support the Google Talk instant-messaging and Google Local mapping programs, the maker of the devices said Thursday, as the Internet titan continues its push to put its services on mobile devices.

December 7, 2004

PHOENIX - After a man robbed a bank near Northern Arizona University and fled toward the school last Friday, cell phones buzzed around campus.

Leo Crocker Rogers: Dear son: There is a saying that life looks a lot different on the way out than the way in. As a dad and at this stage in my life, I see things a lot differently than when I was much younger. Today, I am not physically able to wage the wars I once waged and I no longer wish to be clever.

Discount Cab is rolling out a new service that lets Arizona residents send the company a text message with a pickup address and instantly reserve a ride.

LONDON - Reuters Group PLC and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to connect their instant-messaging services in a deal to be announced Tuesday.

NEW YORK - As part of their $750 million peace treaty, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp. promised to try to make their popular Internet instant-messaging programs work together. AOL and its instant-messaging rivals have made similar pledges before.

NEW YORK - Instant-messaging software has evolved into the latest weapon in a fierce battle among major Internet companies to reap revenues off whatever you do, wherever you go online.

WASHINGTON - Zoe Bambery, a high school senior in Bethesda, Md., might send more than 100 instant messages — IMs — during a typical evening. So during the SAT exam, the 18-year-old found herself inadvertently lapsing into IM-speak, using “b/c” instead of “because” as she scrambled to fi nish her essay.

August 23, 2004

NEW YORK - It’s worked in Europe and Asia — why not here?

NEW YORK - JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have agreed to make their two instant-messaging programs work together, a partnership that could threaten market leader America Online, people familiar with the situation said.