Using Facebook Connect and an open standard for IM, the social network is letting others tap into its chat service. AOL is one of them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Chat Heads let users read their messages on the Facebook app without leaving the Newsfeed or whatever else they were looking at, pulling up each individual message with a little bubble with the sender ...

Facebook's chat feature is normally used from the Facebook website, but you can also use Facebook chat from within a variety of instant messaging programs. Facebook's chat uses the standard XMPP, also ...

Facebook on Sunday began a slow roll-out of its new Chat service. Justin Smith at Inside Facebook has a tour of the new service. Justin's quick review concludes that Facebook Chat is a "very ...

You might spend more time using Facebook if you didn’t have to leave a browser window open, so today Facebook officially launches its Messenger for Windows free ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Being actively social while on-the-go is Microsoft's main aim with Windows Phone, and both ...

At a Facebook press event on Tuesday announcing changes to the social network, chief Mark Zuckerberg slipped in an interesting fact about Facebook's built-in chat client. "I'm pretty sure [it's] the ...

The chat feature of Facebook allows you to voice chat with your friends and family. You must have a built-in microphone or external microphone to chat. If you notice that your microphone isn't working ...