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Bumble: IM alternatives and similar apps

Bumble, set in motion at the beginning of last December, is, essentially, a dating app. However, they got a rather interesting feature off the ground today. This innovation isn’t standalone, but was borne as a supplementary tool in an app that allows for the expansion of user capabilities. We’re talking about photo messaging. In fact,…

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Confide: IM for NDA signees

Confide is an instant messaging app for exchanging classified private information. After Snowden’s leaked stories, hacked iClouds and British PM’s address the issue of data security has moved to a new level. New encryption protocols, trending encrypted instant messengers and cloud storage, incognito browsing — are all user responses to prying government eyes. Despite end-to-end…

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Telegram + Ubuntu Phone

Ubuntu Phone new device, positioning itself as a communicator and a media streaming player, will be available for €170 in a few weeks. This project became interesting thanks to its developers, who also produce Canonical operating systems. As far as performance and features go the price is justified: 2 sim-cards, 4.5-inch screen (540×960 pixels), 1GB…

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Slack wins

Slack is team communication for the 21st century Anyone who has had the slightest experience working in teams online is bound to have heard at least something about Slack. The project, launched in 2013, quickly became one of the best group communication solutions among instant messengers. When Slack’s founders were asked to define their brainchild…

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WeChat Is Trolling WhatsApp. Serves It Right

  On January 22, all IT-oriented resources blew trumpets about the WhatsApp web-version. Well, we decided to join them. The awkward green giant released it in on all platforms (even Nokia S60), except iOS. The reason for the latter was the limitations on the platform itself. It was like “it’s not our fault, blame it…

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SNAPCHAT: FRUITS OF INVESTING INTO SKAN.ME

Last year’s leak of Sony’s corporate correspondence is going to have a dreadful impact for the authors of those messages for another long time. Thus, thanks to it, we know that Snapchat was on the final stage of negotiations regarding the purchase of the Scan.me startup which focused on working with QR-codes. It was not…

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FACEBOOK: QUARTERLY RESULTS

Zuckerberg’s company has issued a quarterly statement, which said that over half a billion users of the social network, particularly, 526 million, use Facebook from their smartphones only. In the previous quarter, this figure was whole 70 million smaller and a year ago the number of the FB mobile version fans was 78% smaller than…

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Is WhatsApp Lagging Behind? Hike Introduces Voice Call Option

The Indian messenger Hike is not going to give up its positions in the local market. This conclusion can be made looking at the recent update which added voice calls to the list of the messenger’s options. This new feature is pretty obvious, since just three weeks ago Hike absorbed Zip-Phone. This step made Hike…

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TINDER WILL GET YOUR EX BACK

An interesting case has recently appeared on Reddit and later on was reposted on Mashable. On Tinder, where you swipe uninteresting profiles to the left in the course of a second, without giving it a second thought, it’s hard to get somebody’s attention. The main character of our story decided to take advantage of the…

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BLACKBERRY BOILING OVER

On 21 January an adaptation of the letter written by BlackBerry chief John Chen was published. The letter referred to “neutrality online”, an issued that has recently been discussed on the Internet. BlackBerry‘s man in charge considers it discriminating that iMessage is available only to iOS users. He directly addressed this issue in a letter…