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BEME TO BRING EVERYONE TO LIGHT

BEME TO BRING EVERYONE TO LIGHT

Is Beme Snapchat’s new competitor? Casey Neistat, famous for his videos on Youtube is going to release his own IM app – Beme. So far, there is very little information available about it. Neistat has launched a large marketing campaign but he is not breaking his neck to share anything about the new app’s features….

WUNDERLIST NOW IN HIPCHAT

WUNDERLIST NOW IN HIPCHAT

From Wunderlist to HipChat and back! The popular Wunderlist app made for managing tasks is now integrating into HipChat. The company has announced this in its official blog. According to the company’s rep, this will help improve communication within a team and make work on projects go faster and make it more effective. The biggest…

INVI – A MULTIFUNCTIONAL MESSAGING APP

INVI – A MULTIFUNCTIONAL MESSAGING APP

A new friendly Invi messaging app for Android and iOS The Invi messenger, which came out in beta this month, is making its way in the market, which is dominated by such monsters as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat. Invi’s major goal is to give users an enjoyable communication experience. The development team has taken…

HOW KIK USES MICROSOFT PHOTODNA TO PROTECT ITS USERS

HOW KIK USES MICROSOFT PHOTODNA TO PROTECT ITS USERS

PhotoDNA on the Internet Kik Interactive became the first company in Canada that began using the PhotoDNA technology, a Microsoft product, in order to protect its users. Let us recall, that PhotoDNA is a technology of fighting the spreading of illegal images. It transfers photos into the format understandable by computer – mathematical values –…

YAHOO LIVETEXT – A NEW YAHOO’S MESSAGING APP

YAHOO LIVETEXT – A NEW YAHOO’S MESSAGING APP

New version of the Yahoo Messenger is already in China! Yahoo has announced a new version of its Yahoo Messenger. Now the app is called Yahoo Livetext and it allows users to share ‘silent’ video and text messages. The messenger description says that such a way of communication is the most natural one. Officially, the…

NEW WHATSAPP SETTINGS FOR WINDOWS PHONE

NEW WHATSAPP SETTINGS FOR WINDOWS PHONE

WhatsApp will release update for Windows Phone The WhatsApp team has decided to give Windows Phone users some new updates. The new 2.12.80 version is not officially released yet but the beta testers have already reported a few new functionalities that users will be able to enjoy. Tester @Mancae90 in particular wrote in his Twitter that…

LINE 5.2.0 – FIND YOUR STICKER!

LINE 5.2.0 – FIND YOUR STICKER!

LINE update Last Friday fans of the Japanese LINE messenger were pleased to see the updated Sticker Shop in the app’s new 5.2.0 version. It is a well-known fact that LINE is famous for its stickers. Now the Japanese app has ensured that users could search for stickers in the Sticker Shop in the most convenient…

THOUGHTS ON LINE STICKERS

THOUGHTS ON LINE STICKERS

Throughout the history of mankind, every new form of communication created its own simplified, reduced version for the sake of deepening content. TechCrunch author, Catherine Shu, posted a paper on this and on the connection between Line and shorthand typing. Stickers are an integral part of Line messaging app Renaissance paintings are full of symbolism:…

UBER AND WECHAT ARE NO LONGER PALS

UBER AND WECHAT ARE NO LONGER PALS

  WeChat Can Not Find Uber At the end of this week, Chinese users of WeChat faced the problem of contacting the Uber cab service. For those who don’t know, Uber is a service of renting a car with a driver for driving you around the city. So, what exactly is the problem? Due to certain…