Jabber, Inc., the People's Choice for Social Networking.Inaugural People's Choice Awards The People's Choice Awards is an awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture. The show has been held annually since 1975 and is one of the few to be based on the opinions of the general public. 2006 from Information Today's Readers and Editors Designate Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. , Inc. as the "Top Social Networking See social networking site. social networking - social network Tool" DENVER -- Jabber, Inc. today announced that the readers and editors of Information Today have selected Jabber, Inc., its instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM) appliance JabberNow, and its core technology the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP XCP Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber) XCP eXtended Copy Protection (First 4 Internet; UK) XCP Explicit Control Protocol XCP Expendable Current Profiler ), as the "Top Social Networking Tool" in the magazine's inaugural "People's Choice Awards." " Information Today's social networking award stands out as the first to recognize extensions of our technology beyond IM," said Paul Guerin, chief executive officer of Jabber, Inc. "As we move aggressively to serve a growing market of service providers, our ability to provide tools that enhance social networking through presence-enabled applications, our protocol-agnostic architecture, as well as our proven scalability recently demonstrated at over one million concurrent users, is of primary importance. Being the People's Choice further validates Jabber, Inc.'s unique value proposition." Jabber XCP is the world's most widely deployed messaging and presence platform based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open, XML-inspired protocol for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging (IM) and presence information (a.k.a. buddy lists). It is the core protocol of the Jabber Instant Messaging and Presence technology. (XMPP (EXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) An XML-based protocol for real time communications, originally developed by Jeremie Miller in 1998 for the Jabber instant messaging system. ). According to Jabber, Inc., there are nearly 50 million worldwide users of the protocol for presence-enabled services including IM. Those numbers count more than 10 million Jabber XCP subscribers, 10 million LiveJournal users, 10 million ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. subscribers, nearly 10 million open source users, and an unpublished number of Google Talk subscribers. Writing on his Real-Time blog, Nemertes Research Analyst Irwin Lazar says, "XMPP seems to be gaining momentumC*with the adoption of XMPP by Google for its Google Chat service, and the growth of Jabber 's commercial software offerings built around the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform." According to Om Malik of the GigaOm online news service, "increasingly developers are beginning to center their IM/real time communication strategies on Jabber/XMPP platforms" as platforms such as Jabber XCP offer more control, interoperability, and flexibility over their development environments and ultimately the services offered. A point that is reinforced with Jabber, Inc.'s selection as Information Today's People's Choice Award for "Top Social Networking Tool." For more information about Information Today's People's Choice Awards, visit http://www.infotoday.com. Jabber, Inc. will be a featured speaker at VON Enterprise 2006, December 4-6, 2006, at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Ga. More information is available at http://www.vonenterprise.com. For more information about Jabber, Inc., visit http://www.jabber.com, send an email to info@jabber.com, or call 303-308-3231. ABOUT JABBER, INC. Jabber, Inc. is a leading provider of real-time presence and messaging solutions. More than ten million users Co representing hundreds of telecommunications carriers/operators, financial institutions, government agencies, higher education institutions, logistics companies, and other organizations Co have licensed the Jabber XCP commercial server to underpin carrier-class real-time, presence-powered applications including desktop and wireless IM for enterprises and consumers, real-time trading systems, and government intelligence systems. The JabberNow IM appliance is targeted to small and medium businesses that require secure, interoperable, and compliant business-class IM. Jabber, Inc. was selected as the Top Social Networking Tool in Information Today's People's Choice Awards 2006; is ranked #5 on the 2006 SecuritiesTech 50 Co an international annual listing of the top technology providers for financial institutions as determined by Securities Industry News and the research firm Financial Insight; is a 2005 EContent 100 Award Winner; and is a 2005 Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100 Award Finalist. Among the company's customers are BellSouth, CapWIN, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , FedEx, France Telecom, HP, Lehman Brothers, McKesson, Orange, Portugal Telecom, and Vicious Cycle Software Vicious Cycle Software is a video game development company based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. History Vicious Cycle was founded in 2000 by Eric Peterson, Dave Ellis, Marc Racine and Wayne Harvey after layoffs at the local MicroProse development studio , Inc. Visit www.jabber.com or send an email to info@jabber.com for more information. |
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