Nearly a week ago Google announced that their new messaging app, Hangouts, would not have support for exchanging messages with users of other systems using XMPP. My first thoughts on this were: Google dropping XMPP from their new messaging platform is a big deal, definitely bad for customers, and may
Real time peer to peer communication on the web has had a good couple of months. At the end of January Chrome and Firefox demonstrated interop of two independent WebRTC implementations and then a couple of weeks ago Google squelched the MPEG LA attack on the open status of it’
For some years HTTPS web security has been considered pretty dependable. If I’m connected to a website, the right URL is showing in my browser and I have a padlock symbol then I’m probably talking to the site that I think I am (extra points for actually checking