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 ...

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) ...

Microsoft has announced that it now supports the open-standard XMPP protocol to access the Windows Live Messenger service, having relied on its own proprietary service for many years. Microsoft has ...

Wireless sensor networks develop very rapidly today. In such circumstances, wireless sensor networks attract more and more people’s attention. And wireless sensor networks are widely applied in many ...

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In recent months, security researchers, hackers, and other dwellers of the cyber-criminal underground have noticed an uptick in XMPP (formerly Jabber) spam. At the bottom of the vast majority of these ...

Chat tool "Slack"Increase users year by year because of the relatively fine control of the range of notice by mechanism such as channel and mentions and the high extensibility by abundant Bot and API ...

Zoom users are advised to update their clients to version 5.10.0 to patch a number of holes found by Google Project Zero security researcher Ivan Fratric. "User interaction is not required for a ...

Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at ...

This is a follow up to our recent TV Companion experiment with the BBC Two show, Autumnwatch. Whilst that post concentrated on the experience, this is an overview of the technologies we used for the ...