Micromethod launches SIP / SIMPLE presence server for unified communication

Micromethod Technologies launches SIPoint server that consists of SIP proxy, registrar, XCAP functions and SIMPLE presence engine. By using SIP Instant Messaging and Presence Leverage Extension (SIMPLE) technology and providing a core set of routing, presence and resource management functions, SIPoint server can be applied to wide array of real-time VoIP communication applications and services. Through open programming SIP Servlet API, any Web developer can easily extend and customize SIPoint Server to tightly integrate with business process and portal applications.

While Micromethod SIPoint server’s proxy function provides accurate routing of general SIP messages and presence information; the presence engine collects and updates user presence information (online / offline, busy and away) as well as user capability (Audio, Video, IM, Collaboration).

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Jabber XCP scales past one million concurrent users

Jabber, Inc. today announced the results of load and scalability testing conducted in Sun Microsystems’ Benchmark Centers. The tests were performed on the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) and began with a benchmark of 420,000 concurrent users on two Sun Fire T2000 servers. At the peak of scalability testing, the messaging platform was supporting in excess of one million concurrent users in a single Jabber XCP domain stretched across eight Sun Fire T2000 servers. Each additional server added the capability to support an incremental 150,000 concurrent users. Over the course of the trials, Jabber, Inc. reports that CPU utilization decreased significantly with each additional box, even with the additional users, suggesting that the efficiency of Jabber XCP increases with greater scale.

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Plugoo: An Embeddable Online Chat Widget

Online chat has become more and more popular these days. With the many Instant Messaging (IM) software that we have today, chatting has become easier. Now how can we integrate that into our website? Chatting with our web visitors? Now that’s interesting. How can we make that work so that it’s convenient for us? Fortunately for us, there’s Plugoo.

Plugoo is a web2.0 embeddable flash online instant messaging widget. Plugoo allows you to have a direct chat from your Instant Messenger (IM) software (Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, GoogleTalk, Jabber or ICQ) with any visitor of your blog or personal website without having them install anything. All they have to do is use your Plugoo IM widget in your site.

Full article at World Tech Logic.com

Another Voice Convergence Coming of Age

We've reported (VoIP Planet) in the past on efforts to integrate cell phone service with instant messaging networks and the voice applications that ride on them, but Talkster is something different. Explaining why isn't necessarily simple.

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One key element here is that enterprise workers are increasingly using instant messaging networks for business communication—these days, mostly public IM networks. While this is convenient and effective, public IM networks are problematic from a corporate IT perspective in that they are outside management's control and cannot be monitored for content—can't comply with either corporate policy or government mandate to log and archive communications.

It follows, then, that alternatives to public IM networks will be adopted in the enterprise—alternatives that can be managed or regulated.

Full article at VoIP Planet

Business intelligence gets collaborative

Collective intelligence is an organization’s most precious asset. It’s what makes the difference between a successful enterprise, one that can pool its expertise to address common opportunities and threats, and a competitive also-ran.

Instant messaging is central to the business intelligence industry’s collaboration road map. For example, Hyperion has announced a product that will embed IM into an always-on desktop business intelligence interface, enabling more direct communications among decision makers in response to real-time feeds of key performance indicators.

Continue at ComputerWorld eBusiness Section

Information security is top IT career for 2007, says FindTheRightSchool.com

With instant messaging (IM) network attacks increasing, information security is expected to be one of the hottest careers in information technology in 2007. Because of the number of employees who use IM at work, companies will need qualified information security professionals to combat hacker threats and implement new federal rules on e-discovery. FindTheRightSchool.com, a one-stop, online education tool for campus-based and online degree programs, can help potential students compare and choose the right school.

Akonix Systems, Inc. announced last week that the predominant IM concerns for companies in 2007 will include risk management, compliance and e-discovery. During 2006, the Akonix IM Security Center identified 15 percent more threats than in 2005 for a total of 406 attacks on IM networks.

Continue at PRWEB

The war for the ‘4th’ screen

For functions from e-mail and instant messaging to mobile MySpace and ESPN, computer users are increasingly turning to the "fourth screen" — the one on their cellphones — which is evolving to adopt more characteristics of the three previous generations of screens: movie, television and computer.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/08/yourmoney/mobile.php

Pissing off Skype

Skype isn’t known for playing well with others. It is a wonderful service that I use every day, but it is one hell of a walled garden. We’re still waiting for a proper Skype hack to come along that gives us access beyond the Skype client software. But today, Charlie Paglee is announcing that they have hacked the Skype interface, and are putting their own “Skype In” and “Skype Out” functionality. The hack adds a button into Skype that adds TalQer VOIP functionality. Highlight a Skype contact, then click the button to call him or her via the TalkQer Voip service.

[TechCrunch]