Ever considered setting up your own Jabber server? In this concise guide, Ars will introduce you to the basics of choosing and configuring an XMPP server. Excellent now do a guide on voice, securing ...

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) ...

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 ...

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.

Jabber has expanded from its open-source roots into a powerful platform for corporate IM. You can use Jabber's own Windows- or Web-based clients, or any of dozens of third-party clients that support ...

Instant messaging has enjoyed phenomenal success as a person-to-person communication tool; in some instances, it has supplanted email as the preferred means of online communication. Now, developers ...