02This week, Russian messaging app Telegram got yet another service – a news bot that was set up by information portal NewsProm.ru. All you need to do is enter a specific command right into the chat and the app will provide you with the latest news reports, current time and today’s weather forecast. In order…
01Encouraged by the success of the news feed in English, the Hike development team have launched a similar thing in Hindi – Hindi News. The English-language platform received over 100 mn views within a week, which is a good figure even for India and its huge population. Let us recall that India is the country…
30Microsoft is so concerned with the quality of Skype that it is carefully studying all user feedback. Having listened to user requests, engineers rolled out Skype 6.4 for Android Wear the other day. The headline innovation of the app’s new modification is the possibility to make calls right from your Android Wear smart watch. In…
29A couple of days ago, Firefox engineers presented an updated version of their product. The update allows users to send text messages. To refresh your memory, Mozilla used to exclusively offer video and audio calls via the built-in Firefox Hello feature. Now, however, its function set can put up a fight with any full-grown messaging…
28The other day, the development team behind the unique reTXT messenger presented an updated version of the app for portable devices running on iOS and Android. From now on, the app is absolutely free. When making the app, the developers set themselves a goal to create an alternative to a standard chat on mobile devices….
28Snapchat will bring back deleted messages. iOS and Android smartphone owners can get ready for the new feature. Yet another update from the young and modern messaging app will give users the option to look at seemingly irrevocably deleted messages once again. It will cost a dollar to restore three messages, $3 to bring back…
27Pavel Durov has probably found a way to make a profit on his brainchild – the Russian Telegram Messenger. Answering the questions of the US media, he told the journalists that the Telegram team is currently busy working on APIs for developers. These APIs will let those developers receive profits from selling services in Telegram…
26The messaging app with Russian roots, Telegram, has recently introduced updated Android and iOS versions of its product. The introduction of group chats, a.k.a. Channels, is, probably, the highlight of the update. Channels provides users with open, public chats with an unlimited number of subscribers. The chats are typically centered around one event, topic or…
25The world’s largest social network Facebook went temporarily offline. On September 24, its home page showed a message “Sorry, something went wrong” or even “Service unavailable”. Mobile apps did not show updated newsfeed either. The corporate Platform Status page, which usually shows a description of failures in Facebook’s work and shows the target time when…
24The top management of VK, a popular Russian social network owned by Mail.ru Group, is concerned about the safety of its users. Growing fears have resulted in the development of a new encryption protocol, specifically designed to protect the personal data of VK users. VK’s COO Andrei Rogozov said that “We really are working on…