Chat & Messengers Companies & Organisations

Companies and organisations involved in chat systems and messengers, such as Instant Messenger and ICQ, also covers newer chat technologies such as IP telephony and video conferencing.

academici Ltd

academici Ltd is a privately funded company registered in England & Wales. Its aim is to operate an online social network for academics and scientists, improving communication across disciplines and across borders. The platform also offers links and forums with a number of free services useful to academics.

BT

BT is one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecommunications services, broadband and internet products and services, and IT solutions. In the UK, BT serves over 20 million business and residential customers with more than 29 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services to other licensed operators.

• BT consists principally of three lines of business:BT Retail, serving businesses and residential customers and including BT Openworld, one of the UK's leading ISPs.

•BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK, including ADSL, conveyance, transit, bulk delivery of private circuits, frame relay and ISDN connections.

•BT Global Services, BT's managed services and solutions provider, serving multi-site organisations worldwide. Its core target market is the top 10,000 global multi-site organisations with European operations.

Jabber Software Foundation

The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) is a non-profit organization that builds open application protocols on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging, XMPP is an emerging Internet standard for real-time messaging and presence that grew out of the popular Jabber open-source project. With approval of XMPP by the IETF, the JSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of commercial and open-source developers, service providers, and end users worldwide.

Microsoft

World leading operating system producer for home PCs, also have interests in programming with the Visual Studio products. Microsoft is pervasive in the fabric of the internet with their MSN messenger product.

Motorola

Motorola is a global communications company that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication.

MSN

Microsoft Network, the ubiquitous Microsoft portal offering many 'community' features such as search, MSN Messenger, shopping, blogs and the like. Love it or hate it its one of the biggest sites out there.

Skype Technologies

Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company(TM), allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 20 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Skype has had over 60 million downloads in its first 18 months and is widely regard as a world leader in its field. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top-tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital Partners.

Yahoo UK

Yahoo UK is major portal supplying search results, news, shopping services, games, groups and many community related services to the internet community.