The Defense Department next month will conduct interoperability tests on instant messaging and chat technology that supports the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, representatives from the ...

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a near realtime instant messaging protocol, and is used in instant messaging like Jabber. XMPP is extremely flexible and extensible protocol.

Though many Internet standards make IM and presence technology possible, there aren’t yet any definitive standards across the industry. However, the incompatibility of current IM products, which has ...

This week’s Technology Update takes a look at one of those technologies that’s garnering attention: the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an XML-based protocol for server-to-server ...

Businesses increasingly require real-time interaction among people, applications and devices that span many networks. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol offers a way to route context-sensitive ...

Instant messaging (IM) has taken a step forward with the industry’s standards body approving an open source-developed protocol, and a New Zealand firm is already using a related technology to offer IM ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. IBM has thrown its weight behind the use of the Extensible ...

With the lure of presence-aware applications and systems dangling before them, competitors are warming up for a heated race to establish an industry standard protocol for presence awareness and ...

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) ...