When Google announced that it was consolidating its Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) instant messaging and video-conferencing services into Google Hangouts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ...

Beginning today, operators of instant massaging services that rely on the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP) are expected to deploy encryption into the messaging platforms they maintain ...

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 ...

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" ...

Is messaging really so complicated that you need five different messaging apps on your phone? Discover the reasons behind messaging vendor lock-in. One of the saddest stories of vendor lock-in is the ...

Instant messaging is typically regarded as a social tool, but it also plays an increasingly important role in the workplace as a medium for professional communication. One of the most important ...