Facebook is making changes to its much criticised chat feature, which should make those annoying cut-offs in the middle of conversations a thing of the past. Facebook software engineer Rodrigo Schmidt ...

Facebook Chat is a wonderful little service opening you up to the incessant, sub-literate, real-time blatherings of the wide array of superficial acquaintances you’ve coalesced over the many years: ...

Facebook Chat’s integration with Jabber/XMPP is just around the corner which means you’ll be able to use applications like Gtalk to communicate on Facebook. According to ProcessOne the launch is ...

Vivox Voice, a third-party voice chat app launched on the social network, gives users the ability to communicate with friends in-network and out-of-network for free. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is ...

Facebook, fresh from its partial privacy revamp, is straight back to business as usual–which means expansion. It’s just bought a small startup called ShareGrove, a group chatting client. Is Facebook ...

As a keen FBer, I'm quite excited about the prospect of the native Facebook chat application. I've tried out several third-party chat apps within Facebook, and none were exactly what I'd call seamless ...

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 ...

M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences and “bots” in ...

Facebook stores all messages sent and received in Facebook Chat even after you close the chat window to end a conversation with a friend, business contact or colleague. The social network groups the ...

From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook Messenger ...