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Asian buzz: new smartphone texting app

Taiwan’s PСhrome Cloud Message PChrome Online, Taiwan’s largest online retail operator and portal, has presented the eponymous instant messaging app — PСhrome. It is a free application, developed by the team over at PChrome Online, targeting smartphone users. The communication service is based on its very own PСhrome Cloud Message tech that is able to…

Skype for Android what’s in store

Skype for Android: what’s in store?

Skype Android update Skype’s recently released Android update is packed with several exciting functions. Despite some ambiguity, they are too big of a deal to be ignored. Firstly, signing back in has finally been made easier. You know how we have to sign in and out of Skype several times a day for various reasons? We’ve…

PUSHBULLET AND SMS NEW CURVE OF DEVELOPMENT

PUSHBULLET AND SMS: NEW CURVE OF DEVELOPMENT

The new version of Pushbullet on Android The new version of Pushbullet messenger run on Android devices has introduced a new feature – the ability to synchronize all chat threads between a user’s devices, so he/she now can see the whole correspondence on the app’s version for PC, Web version and on their smartphone/tablet. This…

THREEMA INTRODUCES SHARING FILES OF ALL TYPES

THREEMA INTRODUCES SHARING FILES OF ALL TYPES

Threema released an Android update Threema, the secure Swiss messaging app, has released an update for its Android version. Now the app’s number of functions is much bigger: users can share files of almost any type, provided that they are up to 20 MB in size. The supported file types include animated GIFs, MS Office…

PHOTO FEATURE AND OTHER UPDATES IN YIK YAK

PHOTO FEATURE AND OTHER UPDATES IN YIK YAK

More functionalities for Yik Yak The anonymous Yik Yak messaging app that allows users to exchange information with those who are not more than 1.5 miles away from them is enlarging the number of its tools. From now on, users can share photos. For the last several months Yik Yak has been testing a photo…

FACEBOOK MESSENGER’S CHATBOT

FACEBOOK MESSENGER’S CHATBOT

Facebook Messenger Catches Up with Asian Competitors Facebook Messenger offers its users a wide set of functions – messaging, file sharing, stickers and even allows to make money transfer to users’ friends, for example, if your friend has paid for dinner at a restaurant or booked cinema tickets for a new movie, which you plan…

SLACK ROLLS OUT @HERE, SO YOU DO NOT WAKE ANYONE UP

SLACK ROLLS OUT @HERE, SO YOU DO NOT WAKE ANYONE UP

Slack messaging app tags Until today, a message sent in the Slack messaging app with a tag @everyone created difficulties for the sender and, moreover, disturbed the recipients who were in different time zones or could even be asleep when the message arrived. We have to give it to the Slack developers – they have taken…

AT THE JUNCTION OF FINANCE AND MESSAGING – NEW STRONG PLAYER ON THE BLOCK

AT THE JUNCTION OF FINANCE AND MESSAGING – NEW STRONG PLAYER ON THE BLOCK

Some Talio functions are integrated into Remity While Facebook is busy transforming its Messenger into an inner-user means for transferring funds, another money transfer app is gaining more and more messaging features. Remitly – a Seattle-based remittance app that lets US residents transfer funds to India or, say, the Philippines – has bought Talio, a messaging…

DARK ROOM’S NEW VERSION FEATURES “HOT BUTTONS”

DARK ROOM’S NEW VERSION FEATURES “HOT BUTTONS”

“Hot Buttons” Dark Room Dark Room, marketed as a safe and secure messaging app, has just released version 0.0.2 of its product. The update has improved the app’s overall stability, made some design changes and added some user-suggested functions. Dark Room developers have introduced a new function – “hot buttons”. To access said buttons you need…

SNAPCHAT PUTS EMPHASIS ON DISCOVER

SNAPCHAT PUTS EMPHASIS ON DISCOVER

Snapchat has released an update that is to do with the Story tab. The major change is that now the main page of the Discover section – icons of media brands that publish their own content for the messenger’s users – appears permanently at the very top of the Discover page. Previously, in order to…