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Summon your Uber ride without leaving HipChat

Team communication app Slack may be getting wide media coverage, but Australian Atlassian is already stepping in with its HipChat software. Just the other day, Atlassian announced a partnership with the driver-on-demand app Uber to integrate it inside of HipChat. Using their new HipChat Connect platform and the Uber API, HipChat has introduced a new way…

WHATSAPP ADDS LINK PREVIEWS

WHATSAPP ADDS LINK PREVIEWS

Most likely, our readers have already got the trend: WhatsApp updates for as long as it can and is yearning for changes for users and for itself. However, one question remains: are those updates always easy to follow? In most cases, they are not. Which is understandable – it’s hard to add something new on…

Messaging Apps Are Watching US

Messaging Apps Are Watching US

Ever since Edward Snowden made his statement, users who were worried about the safety of their communication are now just plain paranoid. Many users feel as if they’re secretly being watched, and, as a result, they are forced to be on full alert around the clock and keep their personal data under full lockdown. As…

CHINA SHUTTING DOWN FOREIGN MESSAGING APPS

CHINA SHUTTING DOWN FOREIGN MESSAGING APPS

China has made a decision to severely stand up to foreign messaging apps and begun shutting them down gradually but permanently. The problem is not even with the Celestial trying to ban the competitors of its home products. The trouble is that a lot of people use instant messaging apps and other mobile apps to…

Make Way For New Viber Features

Make Way For New Viber Features

iPhone and iPad owners can already get their hands on Viber’s latest update. With the advent of the app’s most recent update, users got an opportunity to reply to messages without actually opening the app. To elaborate, interactive notifications enable us to answer messages directly from the lock screen, banner or notification center. However, only…

Stuck In Traffic? Yandex.Maps Will Find You Someone To Talk To

Stuck In Traffic? Yandex.Maps Will Find You Someone To Talk To

If you live in a big city, then you know how frustrating traffic jams can get and that they are not just water under the bridge. Yandex’s analytical center conducted a research that indicates that Russian drivers spend up to two weeks a year stuck in traffic. Perhaps, such disappointing data led to the company’s…

SKYPE BRINGING YOU WINTER MOOD

SKYPE BRINGING YOU WINTER MOOD

Are you a fan of winter? Even if you aren’t, you are most likely to be waiting for the New Year holidays to come. New Year is still over a month away and Skype has already decided to please its users by giving them holiday winter mood. Today the Skype team, following the already established…

PUSHBULLET UPDATE. SEND MESSAGES RIGHT FROM YOUR TABLET

PUSHBULLET UPDATE. SEND MESSAGES RIGHT FROM YOUR TABLET

Pushbullet messenger has launched a new functionality. This messaging app that has recently added an option of chatting from a PC has now repeated this update for Android-based tablets. The developers explained the implementation of the new option by the fact of its enormous popularity among PC users. Sending messages from a tablet is very…

SLACK GAVE ITS USERS A GOOD REASON TO PRESS THE PANIC BUTTON

SLACK GAVE ITS USERS A GOOD REASON TO PRESS THE PANIC BUTTON

Messaging apps attract more and more users with every new day, which is no surprise: people have become so accustomed to instant messaging apps that they can’t imagine their lives without the possibility to stay in touch with their friends 24/7. However, when you can’t make that all-important connection — well, user reactions can be…