Internet gear giant Cisco has announced a deal to acquire privately-held Internet messaging and “presence” company Jabber for an undisclosed amount. Based in Denver, Jabber develops and provides communication services, including instant messaging technology that’s interoperable between different platforms and applications and can, for instance, act as a gateway between normally isolated services like Google Talk, Microsoft’s Office Communication Service, IBM SameTime, and Yahoo Messenger.
Oct
12
KUALA LUMPUR: Innity, Malaysia’s largest premium advertising network and the market leader in online advertising in South East Asia announced today that it has been appointed the exclusive regional sales representative for eBuddy, the world’s leading independent provider of web and mobile instant messaging (IM). Innity is now the exclusive sales representative for eBuddy in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.
Oct
11
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.
Oct
11
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.