Cisco announced its desire to acquire Jabber, provider of Messaging solution. The acquisition will help Cisco compete with Microsoft in communication market. Jabber’s open source messaging solution enables enterprise communication system across different communication servers like Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus Sametime. Jabber also integrates with online mail and IM services from AOL, Google, and Yahoo.
One of the most interesting opportunities of social networking is Lifestreaming. When people get along with friends online they talk about music, review movies, share travel stories, exchange photos, discuss videogames and chat about life. Lifestreaming offers the ability to store and broadcast this information exchange.
AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser. AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com.