Thomas Koeppen Blog

Peter Saint-Andre (Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation) was interviewed by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte this week on FLOSS Weekly. The core technology behind XMPP was invented by Jeremie Miller in 1998, refined in the Jabber open-source community in 1999 and 2000. Listen to his interesting interview:

A CNET survey in June 2008 found that half of the instant messaging services provide full encryption: We found that only half of the services provide complete encryption: AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, and Skype do. To their credit, not one service says it keeps logs of the content of users’ communications [...]

According to a recent study of TNS Technology the mobile instant message is set to cannibalise SMS (texting) and eventually email from PC. The TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) study has found that once mobile users adopt MIM (mobile instant message) it overtakes other messaging tools. Study results: * 8% of all mobile users globally [...]

Meebo provides support for multiple IM protocols. Meebo has always been an attractive alternative for the traditional instant messaging clients. It can be accessed straight from the browser, without the need of installing anything. On the other hand, downloadable applications usually connect to a single network and, even if there are programs that come with [...]

Om Malik (founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc.) broke the news about Adobe’s secret VoIP start-up project. Tom Keating (CTO, VP, Founder of TMC Labs) gave some highlights from his interview with Bhana back in June, which gives some really interesting insights to what Adobe is up to and how this could have a huge impact on [...]