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Google launches free video chat to enhance its instant messaging service
Mickaël Rémond - November 18, 2008Google this week announced that it was going to launch free video chat with its Gmail messaging service.
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Acquisition Fever in Instant Messaging Field: Nokia buys OZ Communications
Mickaël Rémond - October 01, 2008Nokia today announced that the Finish company will acquire OZ communications, a Canadian IM mobile client and gateway provider.
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Rich presence support on the XMPP network
Mickaël Rémond - September 30, 2008Publish and Subscribe and Personal Eventing (PEP) are major features of XMPP enabling a more richer presence. What is the part of the XMPP network currently supporting this feature? Is this yet a largely deployed featured?
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XMPP getting high profile: Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber Inc
Mickaël Rémond - September 19, 2008The news is official now: Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc.
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EQO study: Global Instant Messaging Market Share
Mickaël Rémond - September 02, 2008The mobile instant messaging developer EQO gathered data on the number of connections per instant messaging network through their client. The result has been summarized in a global map of instant messaging networks usage in the world.
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Instant Messaging as a social research tool: Study revives six degrees theory
Mickaël Rémond - August 25, 2008According to a recent study by Microsoft into instant messaging habits it takes only six steps to link everyone together.
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