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!

The rigmarole and uncertainty surrounding live chat are among the top reasons why many people revert to phone calls. Session-based live chat: a function universally disliked by customers, and it ...

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 ...

Chat rooms have since fallen out of favor, thanks to the popularity of other text-based chat devices and services such as iMessage and Twitter. But a new web-based application from digital product ...

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.

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 ...

Hopping onto several instant-messaging networks at once is often best done with the help of IM software, but in recent years Web-based chat tools have gotten to the point where software is not as ...

We've said it before so we'll say it again: Everybody's getting into the multi-platform chat game. The most recent solution to hit our radar is a little known application called imo.im, a Web ...

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.

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.

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 ...