Cisco says it’ll use the Jabber technology to expand its own IM service within its enterprise collaboration tools. It’s certainly fighting hard to grow those tools, too. The Silicon Valley company announced its completed acquisition of e-mail/calendar software company PostPath just a couple of days ago. And something seems to be working: Cisco’s shares are up about 6 percent so far today.

Jabber, which allows you to communicate across a variety of IM services, is currently based in Denver. Cisco hasn’t discussed its plans for that office or the people who currently work there.

The deal is expected to be completed by early 2009.

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Facebook has just announced plans to develop a new Jabber/XMPP interface for its popular chat program. The interface will let users see who’s online, talk to them, and even alter their own status from a remote Jabber-based application. The Inside Facebook blog broke word of the news prior to its official announcement on the Facebook Developers’ Blog.

Engineers haven’t given any timeline for when the new chat could launch. They do say, though, that they’re open to feedback from third-party developers interested in building tools around the function.

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