When Google announced that it was consolidating its Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) instant messaging and video-conferencing services into Google Hangouts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...

XMPP—which stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—is an XML-based protocol for real-time communication. Also known as Jabber, XMPP is an open standard that enables interoperability and ...

Microsoft has announced that it now supports the open-standard XMPP protocol to access the Windows Live Messenger service, having relied on its own proprietary service for many years. Microsoft has ...

Once an underdog in the IM standards race, XMPP gains backing from the Web-search giant in a move that may have far-reaching impact Google’s entry this week into the IM space gave a high-profile shot ...

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Google Hangouts received a lot of face-time during this year’s Google I/O keynote. The company announced that it was consolidating most of its messaging and chatting services into one powerful app, ...

Google is doing its bit to open up the world of instant messaging by making Google Talk interoperable with other IM services that use the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). XMPP is an ...

While everyone is talking about Google Buzz, Facebook has come out with something to make using Facebook Chat easier. Facebook has launched support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol, the same protocol that ...

Protocol conformance and performance testing are two branches of testing designed to determine compliance and performance of protocol implementations to their standard. Dr. CHE Xiaoping and Dr. MAAG ...

The pioneering existence of an instant messenger client that can be used on Windows is ' ICQ ' released by Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996. And in 1997, Internet service provider America Online (AOL ...