09It is always nice to find out about large businesses getting involved in fundraising or angel projects. In the framework of Korea’s national Day of the Deaf, South Korean company Daum Kakao, which owns KakaoTalk, decided to show they care about people suffering from deafness and hearing loss. On June 3rd, KakaoTalk users were given access…
09Tinder has announced that former eBay and Microsoft man Hugh Williams has been hired as the new Vice President of Engineering for Tinder development team. William’s last employer was Pivotal Software, where he occupied the position of Senior Vice President in charge of data and application teams. Prior to that, Tinder’s latest signing served at eBay,…
09Staying touch with your family and beloved ones, important business negotiations, chatting with friends are the major aspects that Tango Messenger developers put an emphasis on. High quality, fast and, most importantly, free connection using 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi are the strong points of the next generation messaging app, according to the developers. Seems like…
09These days messaging apps are one of the major communication tool. Having driven out SMS and MMS, these apps are now an integral part of numerous users’ smartphones. New communication apps are designed and created around the world on a daily basis; however, not all of them can be popular and successful. The creator and…
08Have you ever had this feeling, when you called somebody: “Gosh, this technology is from the Stone Age! Wish I could talk to more people at the same time; that would be superb!” The LINE team, apparently, have found a solution for that. When trying to develop a tool for communicating with a large number…
08Facebook Messenger has decided to get rid of its location sharing feature and replace it with an option to share more precise location with one’s friends instead. Thus you will show them where exactly you are right now or where you are going to be. According to Stand Chudnovsky, one of the Messenger top executives,…
08Skype developers’ team have released an update, which allows you to void the effect of the bug that causes the app to crash. The problem is that Skype would crash immediately after a user received a message containing a simple text “http://” (no quotation marks), and the app did not let the user login again…
07Messengers keep pleasing us with interesting updates. For example, the other day Jongla app announced the release of functionality update for Firefox and iOS. This is what we are going to tell you about. What’s new in Jongla for Firefox? Now you can get and play voice messages in Jongla . Improved process of exchanging…
06Just recently, in March this year, the Kik messenger introduced an option of instant video exchange. This was a great gift to the users. The new function allows recording 15-second videos and sending them to their chat recipients right away. Even though these videos are much shorter than the ones you can send via special…
05On Tuesday evening, the US President signed the USA FREEDOM Act. This new legal act is supposed to change the National Security Agency data surveillance programs on phone tapping and collecting data about the users of telephone providers in the US. What has it got to do with messaging apps? Everything, in fact. We have…