Cisco (CSCO) Launches Jabber, A Lite Collaboration Service

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) has launched a new collaboration service from its enterprise social network, Quad, called Jabber.

Venture Beat noted, "Jabber pulls a few of the more popular features from Cisco’s teleconferencing service and Quad and slaps it on just about every device. That includes secure instant-messaging, visual voicemail, desktop sharing and eventually video conferencing. The service will come out for Mac personal computers first. Users can also use Jabber to transfer phone calls from one device to the next — such as from a mobile phone to a home phone.

"Cisco is also launching the service on the iPad and its own tablet, the Cius. The service is also coming to the iPhone, the BlackBerry and devices running Google’s Android. Cisco is also launching it for Nokia’s now-dead Symbian mobile operating system because the devices are so widely distributed.

"Just about every enterprise company has taken a crack at mimicking real-life collaboration through an online service. Yammer, Salesforce and Cisco — for example — all have enterprise social networks. But as popular as each application has become — Salesforce’s Chatter has around 80,000 users, and Yammer has more than 100,000 — the field is still pretty segmented. Various services like file sharing and customer support are strewn across multiple startups."

Cisco was trading at $18.52, down $0.03, or 0.19 percent, as of 2:09 PM EST.





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