Many users of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—formerly Jabber) chat services are going to be more secure starting this week. The XMPP Standards Foundation announced that a large ...

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 ...

A new variant of mobile ransomware that encrypts the content of Android smartphones is putting a new spin on both how it communicates with its masters and how it spurs its victims into action. The ...

Microsoft has opened up public access to its Messenger IM network via XMPP, enabling Apple and others to build open clients capable of interacting with Microsoft users. In a new "Inside Windows Live" ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Yesterday Google released Hangouts, the company’s new video, voice, and text chat application. Previously known internally to Google by the codename “Babel,” Hangouts consolidates ...

Google said recently that it will stop supporting XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), which is used for instant messaging in Google Talk. A unified Google Hangouts service will extend ...

Moxie Software (news, site) has updated its Social Workspaces Suite, this time focusing on Customer Spaces with a new mobile user interface for the Knowledgebase and integrated chat in the contact ...

Microsoft is dropping support for Facebook and Google chat from its Outlook.com web-based email service. In an email to Outlook.com users, the company said that it will be dropping support for ...

Apple unveiled a new iMessaging app that brings SMS-style messaging to iOS devices that lack a mobile data connection, such as WiFi-only iPads and the iPod touch. The technology behind the software ...

Facebook's chat feature is normally used from the Facebook website, but you can also use Facebook chat from within a variety of instant messaging programs. Facebook's chat uses the standard XMPP, also ...