30This year Skype has really got into Halloween topic and decided to give its users tricks and tips. Everybody has already seen the mysterious smileys ‘dwelling’ in Skype – the pumpkin, the ghost, the witch, the vampire and the skeleton. As Halloween draws closer, the messaging app is adding new little things and offering tips….
30Emojis have successfully incorporated themselves into every messaging app. Before messaging apps came along, smileys were used to convey emotion in SMS communication through brackets, colons, hyphens and other punctuation marks. Eventually, they were replaced by graphic prototypes, and now everyone has entire sets of emojis at their disposal — various ideograms that reflect, sometimes…
29Are you a fan of Indian films? Then you’re gonna love this. Today Skype introduced new Mojis featuring Indian movie characters acted by famous Bollywood actors. Who can be more emotional than actors in Indian dramas? Who dances in a bigger way than people in films in other parts of the planet? The Skype team…
29Particularly for impatient teenagers and for those who are not satisfied with the ordinary speed of playing videos, Snapchat has introduced new filters to modify the speed of playing video clips. Some people prefer to watch videos at a higher or lower speed after they have taken the first proper look. From now on, all…
29WhatsApp has been the top messaging app in terms of popularity for a long time. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise that this app became the subject of a research conducted at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group (Connecticut). The results of the study shocked the entire world….
28The top-management of the Russian social network VK.com has many times announced its intentions to offer its users a separate messaging app. Besides, the developers claimed to be making their own crypto protocol. Some people were looking forward to the promised messaging app, some made sarcastic comments that VK developers were unable to come up…
28Facebook users have faced many difficulties on many occasions when dealing with strangers. In the past, if you wanted to message a Facebook stranger, who you stumbled upon when surfing the social media, your text would be delivered to the “Other” inbox. You could easily miss something or someone important, because you didn’t notice that…
28The release of the smart watch has, undoubtedly, marked a new starting point not only for technological developments, but for messaging applications as well. For example, one of our favorite apps, Viber, has gone down the same path that its rivals, Facebook Messenger and WhatsАpp, did. Viber too has rolled out watchOS 2 for the Apple…
28One of Asia’s most popular messaging apps, WeChat, is going to take up money transfers. The app that has Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp on the list of its competitors wants to continue the worthy competition. Last week it was reported that WeChat was to introduce a 0.1% fee for all money transfers and transactions made…
28This is a well-known fact that mobile operators consider messaging apps as their direct competitors, and sometimes they even treat them as enemies. This is no surprise – paid calls and SMS can be easily substituted with free messages, voice calls and even video calls in apps. Therefore, the statement Mikhail Slobodin, VimpelCom (a brand…