Sometimes code speaks louder than words. That's why Microsoft today published software demonstrating its own proposal for a Web standard enabling browser-based audio and video chat. In the demo ...

Internet Engineering Task Force members could pick a winner in the competition between Google's free VP8 and the industry-standard H.264 for Web-based chat technology.

Their new project is Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned, self-governed online communities.

You're sick of constantly switching between Messenger, WhatsApp and Slack? All-in-One Messenger lets you use all of these apps at once.

All-in-One Messenger is a web-based chat app for Chrome that lets you log into over twenty messenger platforms at once, all in a single window.

Need to set up a group chat session in a hurry? There's no easier solution than ChatMaker, which whips up instant Web-based chat rooms. All you do is think up a name for your room (like ...

It reminds me of Gmail's built-in chat—it's on by default, your contacts populate your chat buddy list, and you can use it without downloading a separate client.

To see which of your nominees made the top five, head over to our hive five feature, the five best web-based video chat services —and don't forget to vote for your pick to be the all-out winner!

TinyChat has a number of possible uses, from offering a simple way to chat with your less-than-tech-savvy friends, to skirting corporate firewalls that block typical instant message protocols.

The NetValue study concluded that among European countries Web-based chat is most popular in Spain -- more than one in four Spanish Internet users chatted online in February.

AOL has purchased a developer of Web-based chat and other communications technologies as the company seeks to expand the reach of its popular AIM instant-messaging service and its ad-supported ...