The Digital Inspiration blog details a relatively simple method for creating your own interactive instant messenger "bot" that will take action once it receives an IM. Creating the bot requires an ...

It's a good thing Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger Santa is just an AI-powered chat bot. You'd probably want to think twice before sitting on his lap. According to The Register, the now-disabled ...

Instant Messaging (IM) hosting service IMified is set to close according to an email that the company sent to its users. The service, which was bought by Voxeo in 2009, has announced that it will ...

AOL Instant Messenger users who click on a malicious link could find themselves the victim of a newly discovered bot that uses encryption to increase the range of its targets and make eradication more ...

As part of its continuous push to market its AOL Instant Messenger program, America Online is testing a new instant-chat robot that answers questions from AIM users about weather and stocks. In ...

Security experts have discovered an instant messaging tool that could change the way denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are performed. Combining the open-source tool nmap -- a program that discovers ...

This may or may not be real, but The Reg is appalled at Microsoft’s dirty Santa IM bot after it started talking about oral sex and dirty bastards. The transcript is above, but even IM transcripts are ...

A new form of malicious instant-message bot is on the loose that talks back to the user, possibly signifying a potentially dangerous trend, an instant messaging security firm said. IMlogic Inc. issued ...

A new breed of malicious instant-message bots is on the loose, according to IMlogic Inc., the developer of enterprise instant messaging security applications. IMlogic issued the warning late on ...

As discussed in the > past Instant messaging (IM) has evolved substantially from being a mere communication tool. With the help of IM bots (an IM bot is a software based virtual IM buddy) one can ...

Now's your chance. According to Alfred Thompson's blog, Microsoft and Conversagent are giving away free licenses for their BuddyScript SDK for MSN Messenger. Now developers can build their own IM bots ...