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.
Oct
11
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.
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.
Oct
11
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.
Dec
21
CONTROVERSIAL fighter Anthony Mundine has copped some of his own after taking aim at newly crowned WBA light heavyweight Danny Green and slamming former world champion Jeff Fenech as `jealous’ of his success. Mundine `talked turkey’ with a caged chicken he called `Danny Green’ in his latest stunt when announcing a WBA super middleweight title defence against fellow Muslim Nadar Hamden for the Sydney Entertainment Centre on February 27.
Dec
20
Internet telephony hasn t put phone companies out of business the way it was supposed to. But there s now evidence that Web calling is making it hard for at least international phone companies to continue doing business as usual. A TeleGeography Research survey has found that, for the first time in several decades, the growth rate for total international voice minutes is falling. Volume growth is a crucial factor in international carriers survival strategies.
Dec
20
For the more talkative members of MySpace, the last two months must have seemed like an eternity. In mid-October 2007, the social network and Skype announced that they had agreed to integrate the latter s Internet-calling capabilities with the former s IM (instant messaging) functions. The integrated service has finally gone live, adding 110 million MySpace members to the 245 million registered Skype users who can potentially call each other for free.
Dec
20
RipIt RingIt breaks new ground, enabling free ringtones for Skype. The ringtone maker allows users to record their own ringtones that can be assigned to individual callers or, for greater impact, sent to each of their contacts. The ringtones can be simple voice announcements or anything that users can record, limited only by the user s creativity. RipIt RingIt offers a completely new mode of personal expression, even branding.
Dec
18
While consolidation among the large-cap mining groups has grabbed all the recent headlines, the junior miners on Aim have motored ahead relatively unnoticed. The miners have been the best performing sector on the main market over the past three years and this success has been mirrored on Aim. The Mining EYe index of the top 20 Aim miners - which is produced by the corporate finance team at Ernst & Young - rose by an impressive 33pc in the year to date.