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) ...

Google is doing its bit to open up the world of instant messaging by making Google Talk interoperable with other IM services that use the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). XMPP is an ...

XMPP—which stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—is an XML-based protocol for real-time communication. Also known as Jabber, XMPP is an open standard that enables interoperability and ...

Malware authors have a solid track record in regards to creative Command and Control protocols. We've seen peer-to-peer protocols, some custom (Sality), some standard (Win32/Storm uses the eDonkey P2P ...

Microsoft has announced that it now supports the open-standard XMPP protocol to access the Windows Live Messenger service, having relied on its own proprietary service for many years. Microsoft has ...

Google”s entry this week into the IM space gave a high-profile shot in the arm to the open IM protocol XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). The decision to base Google Talk on the ...

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.