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 ...

After nearly 28 years in operation, messaging service ICQ will cease operations on June 26, according to its current owners. You’d be forgiven for not realizing it still existed; the proto-IM service ...

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 ...

ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Microsoft's trailblazing Windows 95 was ...

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 ...

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 ...