18The summer of 2015 is going to be a very hot time for the messenger market. One of the leaders of the Russian telecommunications market, MTS, has already announced plans to release its instant messaging application. We are well aware that the company has spent around 100 million rubles on development, moreover, the messenger will…
18The unveiling of Android 5.0 Lollipop entailed the development and widespread publicity of Material Design – a design language phenomenon. The philosophy behind this filiation is easy: simple forms, small detail and bright, pleasant colors. Considering the trend, developers rushed to update their apps to match the time. Almost instantaneously, which makes perfect sense,…
18The other day you may have read information in the press regarding Google’s plan to launch a mobile operator project under the brand name. Even the not-yet-confirmed name of the development surfaced – Nova. Sprint and T-Mobile, the industry’s existing giants, would have helped implement the idea, but so far they haven’t been able to…
18A HOT DEBATE IS ABREWING IN WESTERN PRESS REGARDING AN AMBITIOUS AUSTRIAN STARTUP, WHICH IS SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST A MESSENGER. ChatGrape is an entire ecosystem for communication. To go into detail, ChatGrape is a teamwork messenger or, in other words, a group chat, positioning itself as a “smarter” product than Slack and HipChat, which…
17WhatsApp announced the release of the messenger’s web-version. From now on you can send and receive messages directly in your browser. This is the app’s first “evolutionary step” since it was bought out by Facebook. To join you need to: Go to https://web.whatsapp.com/ Scan the QR code using WhatsApp, having initially updated the app…
17Immediately after the launch of Russian Telegram last year WhatsApp’s creator (Jan Koum) spoke about Pavel Durov in one of his interviews, describing him as a man only capable of copying really good products, referring to Facebook and WhatsApp. This was preceded by a loud statement from Pavel, when he claimed without a shadow of a…
17Simply texting isn’t enough for 2015. That’s why messengers, considering their amount of users, are trying to engage in other activities: online gaming, shopping, banking. After CES 2015 WeChat announced its cooperation with Ayla Networks and Caesar’s LINQ Hotel & Casino. They presented the first jointly-furnished luxury suites. As you enter the suite there…
17Talks about the dominance of messengers and their current overabundance on the market are like talks about the weather and politics — you can talk all day long without saying anything in point of fact. Such a number of applications for communication can be explained quite simply: not a single market player has been able…
23Emoji are the smileys that are used in social media and instant messengers.
23The end of last December saw a succession of news headlines from the flamboyant Kim Dotcom – starting with his heroic deal with hackers, that took down both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, and going as far as spreading rumors about the creation of new messengers.