Cisco buys open source messaging firm Jabber

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           Folks, Hopefully many of the coraporate folks know what JABBER is? It is chat tool, that the people use in IT for having chat within your LAB and may be your network for safe chat. Now, the news is CISCO is buying Jabber, the lead commercial vendor behind the popular open source XMPP (aka Jabber) protocol. Jabber is used by millions worldwide and XMPP is the basis of Google's Chat as well.A Financial terms of the deal have not yet been publicly disclosed.

    "Enterprise organizations want an extensible presence and messaging platform that can integrate with business process applications and easily adapt to their changing needs," said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group in a statement. "With the acquisition of Jabber, we will be able to extend the reach of our current instant messaging service and expand the capabilities of our collaboration platform. Our intention is to be the interoperability benchmark in the collaboration space." .To know more, Click here...

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Meebo's 'M' on the Widget Revolution

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Now are going to see more about online chat in single window. Two-year-old Meebo uses widgets to allow its users to send instant messages from any computer and chat with buddies on any IM system -- including AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Web Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber -- without downloading or installing software. The site also lets users create an embeddable IM window, or widget, that they can add to personal Web pages. Meebo opened its platform to third-party developers in October. Click here to read more...

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