While you probably haven't thought about it in years, the first mainstream universal messenger app for the Mac and just about every other platform will finally be completely retired in June 2024.

It took AOL Time Warner's ICQ instant messenger service just four years to hit 100 million users, but AOL's dream of turning ICQ into a business has yet to materialize. The media giant on Wednesday ...

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A number of companies are pursuing AOL’s ICQ instant messaging product, we’re hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sources say ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In a move that opens its instant-messaging client to ...

If you've been using a PC and going online since the days of dial-up modems and first-gen broadband, then you'll probably remember ICQ - one of the very first instant messaging apps for Windows. If ...

Between ICQ and AOL dial-up, that pretty much defined how I liked to communicate in the evenings during my youth. Remember the AOL dial-up sound? Nostalgia awaits. Released in 1996 by Mirabilis, ICQ ...

The ICQ app strives to merge many of your social networking features, and text messaging into one package. It seems like a tough goal to meet, and can it live up to its efforts? While it does manage ...

I had just turned sixteen when instant messaging client ICQ was first released in November 1996. I started using the program a couple of months later, and will never be able to erase that annoying ‘uh ...

Toronto, Sept. 30 - ICQ ("I Seek You"), an on-line communications community and service from America Online, has announced the launch of ICQ Lite, a new and small (a ...

Remember ICQ? The storied instant messaging network hasn't seen much traction since the halcyon days of the mid-90s, but things are looking up. Since its introduction to Apple, Android, and Bada ...