Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon
What You Need To Know Türkiye Today : WhatsApp claims Israeli spyware targeted 90 journalists Business Today : WhatsApp exposes spyware targeting journalists, some users by Israeli firm Rimjhim Singh ...
Meta details its plans for WhatsApp and Messenger interoperability with third-party apps in the EU, with group chats in 2025 and voice and video calling in 2027
here's how it will look Ians / Latest Odisha News, Breaking News Today : WhatsApp, Messenger to allow messages from 3rd-party services in EU: Meta Dwaipayan Roy / NewsBytes : WhatsApp will soon allow ...
Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey outlines … Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek : Twitter Will Fund the Development of a Decentralized Social Media Standard Rob Price / Business Insider : Twitter is trying to build a n...
Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
This is why there should have been far more scrutiny during Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp which now clearly seem like horizontal mergers that should have triggered antitrust scruti...
Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
Here's What To Do Reuters : Zuckerberg to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger: NYT Chief Chapree / Lowyat.NET : Facebook Reportedly Working On Cross-Messaging Feature for WhatsApp, In...
Improved Simplocker Android malware disguises as an NSA app, has infected tens of thousands of devices using XMPP
Android ransomware uses XMPP chat to call home, claims it's from NSA — Improved Simplocker lurks disguised as legitimate Flash or video player app.
Jingle Becomes The Default Protocol For Google Talk's VoIP
Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle (XEP-166 and XEP-167) protocol as the primary signaling protocol. — Jingle is an extension of the XMPP which supports peer-to-peer...
Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life
Jeremie Miller is a revered figure among developers, best known for building XMPP, the open source protocol that powers most of the Instant Messaging apps in the world. Now Miller has raised funds an...
IM: Not coming soon
In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because ...