13Yahoo’s trademark laziness and unwillingness to correct its own mistakes, even if they are served on a silver platter, make the app notoriously unique. Security expert, Julian Arens, voiced a story in support of the aforementioned fact. He said that he sent a vulnerability report to the company as early as May 2014. In response,…
12WeChat messenger has allowed (that goes for iOS users only, though) users to create messages of the “rich media” type. This phrase means that a message can include a text, photo, A/V recording or user location simultaneously. In order to create such, let us use this word, installations, you need a device running on iOS….
11ICQ is still among the most popular applications for online communication. It wouldn’t be fair not to mention the fact that this texting client has lost a huge part of its user base over the past couple of years. In spite of this, the engineers of the software haven’t stopped working on enhancing and improving…
10According to open source data, a fifth of WhatsApp’s billion-strong user base favors the app’s web client. As a matter of fact, the aforementioned version of the service was launched just a short while ago and has already managed to cause a few significant problems. A couple of days back, representatives of an IT company…
10It isn’t know whether Tencent representatives said something during the Kik investment deal, or whether the conclusion was independently drawn by Ted Livingston’s team, but the fact remains: the Canadian messaging app ripped off one of the main features of Chinese messaging app WeChat – the QR code. Last month, company co-founder and CEO Ted…
10Threema’s project team — a mobile app based on secure user communication and data protection — has released yet another update for Android devices.
09If you are an Android user we suggest that you don’t rush to update your default Google apps that include the new version of Hangouts (4.0). Due to a developer error, some users of the latest version will not be able to connect to the message server. Western media reports on how the bug manifests…
09The new app offers encrypted text messages, secure voice calls thanks to VoIP, and developers are planning to please their users with group chats in the near future. StealthChat set its foot on the messenger market in October 2014. The first version was prepared for Android devices. Almost a year later, developers finally finished creating…
08Russian software developer and founder of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has once again found himself at the center of a scandal: Talmon Marco, creator of the popular communication app Viber, has accused Durov of plagiarism. Stickers are the subject matter of the scandal: Marco is confident that the design of Telegram stickers was “borrowed”…
06Gen-Y trends The Refuel Agency has conducted an interesting survey in an attempt to find out which device the millennial teens (Gen-Y) cannot live without. The results of the survey give hope to many developers of mobile apps and messengers in particular. Teens named the smartphone the device they cannot imagine their lives without. It…