03Stand out in Nimbuzz Nimbuzz messenger has found a cheap way for users to stand out. It has reduced price for the Color ID service. From now on, you can show that you are cool by changing the colour of your name in a group chat to a different colour for a symbolic price. Among…
03RingID to fight it out with Snapchat? For quite a while, Snapchat was the only communication app where messages were removed after being read. Users took a liking to such increased secrecy. Many other startups saw success because of this key function. However, they did provide their unique visions of anonymity and secrecy. Nonetheless, many…
03A Threema bug prevented iOS users from communicating As we reported before, on July 29, Threema messenger released an iOS update. On July 30, next day after the update release, the developers began to receive complains from iOS 7 users saying that they were unable to use the app. On July 31, Threema posted…
02“Anonymous chat with a real Artyom” is a new chat app for iOS These days, if you want to win over an audience for a messaging app, you have to offer something unique, interesting and fun. Users are no longer satisfied with just massaging, sharing stickers and files. Young people (these are the major audience…
01A text made of emojis? Could this actually be done? Last week our team found out that Sony Pictures Animation was going to create an animation movie, using only emojis. The new week arrived and the KIK development team got down to thinking whether a screenplay of over 300 pages long can be written with…
31Voxer at the forefront of communications So NASA NEEMO 20 mission was launched, and Voxer hurries up to tell about the first results. The team of the messenger have chosen two representatives to monitor and investigate the possibilities of the product: head of corporate development and one of the co-founders of the company, Jim Panttaja,…
31LINE has published its Q2 revenue report LINE’s Q2 financial report demonstrated a decrease in the company’s revenues. LINE revenues have been following a downward trend in each quarter, since the messaging company decided to make a global rollout and conquer new markets. Is the messenger really not so good and it cannot face a…
31Messaging apps and smart watches The IT crowd has not yet made up its mind on how it feel about smart watches. Some companies see a new way of interacting with clients and an incentive to develop their products. Others, however, are skeptical about the latest gadget. For example, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger aren’t rushing to…
31Snapchat: a messaging app that makes no profit Snapchat is the hyper popular young people’s messaging app that still has not made any profit and hasn’t event got the investors’ money back. Now we are watching the messenger’s attempts to make its Discover section bring revenue. Snapchat has been active in terminating old contracts and…
30Now anyone can get Yahoo Livetext! In a recent article we told you about Yahoo’s plans to replace its messenger with a new app, whose aim is to give users the possibility to communicate with vivid emotions via “muted” videos. A test version of Yahoo Livetext was briefly available exclusively to residents of Hong Kong…