Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the Media section at CNET News.com. Before joining CNET he reported on business, technology and the law at American Lawyer Media. America Online's ICQ instant ...

An Internet messaging service that has quietly amassed 28 million members is attempting to fashion itself into a next-generation Web force, competing with heavyweights such as Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 20 years ago, I started driving co-workers within listening distance crazy with constant chirps of “Uh oh!” emanating from my laptop. It was all coming from a nifty little program I’d discovered ...

Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by its Israeli student creators ...

The instant-messaging pioneer plans to unveil an API program with the release of ICQ 4.0 next week. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the Media section at CNET News.com. Before joining CNET he ...

My company is looking at making a switch for our company chat client (we used to use the optional Lotus Notes Module) to the ICQ for business. From what I can tell it is just a cut down version of ICQ ...

America Online's ICQ instant messaging software now supports video chat, one of the first tangible results of the ICQ unit's recently launched developer program. ICQ in April began providing partners ...