Google Talk is an interesting development. The instant messaging component is based on XMPP (aka “Jabber”). In a way, this seems a “natural” choice for Google, given their strong interest in XML-based technologies for all kinds of services. XMPP uses XML-streaming. You can think of this as an open (editable) XML document to which the […]

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I thought that this article “IMS Q&A with Greg Papadapolous, CTO and Executive VP for Sun” had some interesting slants on IMS, at least showing how Sun sees it anyway.
A couple of interesting points:
One about the billing, that IMS allows a greater degree of understanding how the wireless link is being used, which means […]

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Apologies to those waiting for the 100 ideas e-book. I know it’s slow coming and the blog has slowed right down (which happens to my blogging about once or twice a year). I’ve been busy with projects and found that I simply didn’t have time to blog this past month. Moreover, I just haven’t been […]

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In my last posting I was commenting on the role of IMS in the 3G era. By itself, it may not amount to much, but combined with the higher layers of interesting services, especially presence, it becomes a potential powerhouse for the nascent mobile computing market.
As such, presence and its associated buddy-list presentation is possibly […]

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