Skype Security Breach Reveals Anti-Communist Movement in China http://en.epochtimes.com/ ‘њWe can’t use Yahoo messenger, email is not safe, phones are not safe, and now Skype is not safe. We don’t know what to use.’ќ A report by Citizen Lab stated that Villeneuve’s findings should serve as a warning for groups engaging in political activism or using censorship circumvention technology accessed through companies that have compromised on human rights.
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Jabber provides a carrier-grade, best-in-class presence and messaging platform. Jabber s technology leverages open standards to provide a highly scalable architecture that supports the aggregation of presence information across different devices, users and applications. The technology also enables collaboration across many different presence systems such as Microsoft Office Communications Server, IBM Sametime, AOL AIM, Google and Yahoo!.
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San Jose, California-based communications MNC Cisco announced yesterday that it has purchased open instant messaging technology provider Jabber Incorporated, in an attempt to improve their messaging features and also expand the current capabilities of their collaboration platform. This deal comes only a day after Cisco announced that it had completed its acquisition of PostPath Inc., an e-mail and calendaring software company, for $215 million.
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AHN Staff Denver, CO (AHN) - Cisco Systems will buy open-source instant messaging company Jabber to boost its unified communications and collaboration portfolio. In an undisclosed amount, Cisco announced Friday that it plans to deploy the Jabber messaging software to its WebEx Connect and Unified Communications.
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I know the `old guard’ of IT are struggling to keep up with the new kids on the block, but Cisco’s announcement of its plans to buy Jabber, the multi-system Instant Messaging firm, has me baffled. There’s no profit in mainstream IM. I know this as a pal of mine worked at Reuters a few years back when the company got into secure business IM technology. No-one pays for IM. No, I’ll rephrase that - no-one needs to pay for IM. They’ll pay for IM security; witness the success of FaceTime and others.
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Instant messaging (IM) may still be frowned on or even banned from many offices. But for many especially those just entering the workforce IM s real-time text conversation and file sharing software has replaced email as their communications media of choice.
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Cisco Systems acquired enterprise instant messaging software maker Jabber for an undisclosed sum. The open-source Jabber allows users to send instant messages to anyone on other IM networks, including AOL AIM, Google Talk and Yahoo ! Messenger. The move is made to help bolster Cisco’s presence and messaging capabilities within its collaboration software suite.
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By acquiring WebEx in 2007, Cisco gained a software-as-service (SaaS) platform for Web conferencing, along with other collaboration services such as team workspaces, shared calendaring capability and AIMPro (an IM technology in which WebEx had partnered with AOL). Cisco has sought to strengthen its e-mail offerings through its PostPath acquisition (announced in August 2008), as well as its IM and presence offerings through the pending Jabber deal.