24Ubuntu Phone new device, positioning itself as a communicator and a media streaming player, will be available for €170 in a few weeks. This project became interesting thanks to its developers, who also produce Canonical operating systems. As far as performance and features go the price is justified: 2 sim-cards, 4.5-inch screen (540×960 pixels), 1GB…
24Slack is team communication for the 21st century Anyone who has had the slightest experience working in teams online is bound to have heard at least something about Slack. The project, launched in 2013, quickly became one of the best group communication solutions among instant messengers. When Slack’s founders were asked to define their brainchild…
23On January 22, all IT-oriented resources blew trumpets about the WhatsApp web-version. Well, we decided to join them. The awkward green giant released it in on all platforms (even Nokia S60), except iOS. The reason for the latter was the limitations on the platform itself. It was like “it’s not our fault, blame it…
23The founder of Kik has written a long post entitled: The Race to Become the WeChat of the West. Here we offer you the major points: Back in 2009 investors believed that users need nothing but Facebook. Investors were irritating: Why do you need chat that’s just on your phone? Why just texting is not…
20Last year’s leak of Sony’s corporate correspondence is going to have a dreadful impact for the authors of those messages for another long time. Thus, thanks to it, we know that Snapchat was on the final stage of negotiations regarding the purchase of the Scan.me startup which focused on working with QR-codes. It was not…
20The Indian messenger Hike is not going to give up its positions in the local market. This conclusion can be made looking at the recent update which added voice calls to the list of the messenger’s options. This new feature is pretty obvious, since just three weeks ago Hike absorbed Zip-Phone. This step made Hike…
20An interesting case has recently appeared on Reddit and later on was reposted on Mashable. On Tinder, where you swipe uninteresting profiles to the left in the course of a second, without giving it a second thought, it’s hard to get somebody’s attention. The main character of our story decided to take advantage of the…
19Behind every popular product there is a genius. Bill Gates was Microsoft’s prodigy, Steve Jobs did it for Apple, and Mark Zuckerber struck gold with Facebook. Billions of people are using products from these companies, while the names of the founders are buzz words. When it comes down to messengers the case is totally different….
19On 21 January an adaptation of the letter written by BlackBerry chief John Chen was published. The letter referred to “neutrality online”, an issued that has recently been discussed on the Internet. BlackBerry‘s man in charge considers it discriminating that iMessage is available only to iOS users. He directly addressed this issue in a letter…
18The summer of 2015 is going to be a very hot time for the messenger market. One of the leaders of the Russian telecommunications market, MTS, has already announced plans to release its instant messaging application. We are well aware that the company has spent around 100 million rubles on development, moreover, the messenger will…