Industries thrive when there is just one standard to adopt. E-mail has become much more pervasive because of the SMTP protocol; the video industry grew quickly because VHS won out over beta; IBM ...

Despite having heard proposals for three instant messaging (IM) standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) appears likely to move toward a way to make different IM systems work together ...

When America Online closed its door on efforts to standardize instant messaging, a new one may have opened for Jabber. Jabber, the XML-based instant messaging application that interoperates with ...

After five years of raucous debate and stop-and-start development, the Internet’s premier standards-setting body is finalizing a set of protocols that will let companies exchange instant messages with ...

Instant Messaging is one of the great undeveloped applications of the Net. In use by millions of people at work and at home, it remains much the same as its anarchistic antecedent, Internet Relay Chat ...

As popular as instant messaging has become, most enterprises have neither policy nor technology in place for securing IM. Here's expert advice for getting the message. At the same time, only 10 ...

The launch of IMsecure Pro comes on the heels of Zone Labs' acquisition of IMsecure, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of instant-messaging security technology. Zone Labs didn't disclose terms of ...

AOL Instant Messenger, known commonly as AIM, is one of the most popular and oldest instant-messaging services around. It lets users chat with one another, send files, and have multiple conversations ...

The new feature offers end-to-end encrypted private messaging for anyone with a cb.id username, .eth domain or Lens ID. Coinbase Wallet users can now send instant messages to each other using their ...

I know there are VISCA-protocol libraries available to control the camera Ideally the PC should be able to run a client, connect to a central server and accept commands to control the camera.