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Skype adds holiday spirit with a new update

With the biggest holidays of the year, Christmas and New Year, just around the corner Skype launched a holiday-friendly update. “The holidays are a time when people want to gather with family and friends, but it’s not always easy to get together in person,” writes Skype, explaining their desire to help people connect. The updates…

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Summon your Uber ride without leaving HipChat

Team communication app Slack may be getting wide media coverage, but Australian Atlassian is already stepping in with its HipChat software. Just the other day, Atlassian announced a partnership with the driver-on-demand app Uber to integrate it inside of HipChat. Using their new HipChat Connect platform and the Uber API, HipChat has introduced a new way…

WHATSAPP ADDS LINK PREVIEWS

WHATSAPP ADDS LINK PREVIEWS

Most likely, our readers have already got the trend: WhatsApp updates for as long as it can and is yearning for changes for users and for itself. However, one question remains: are those updates always easy to follow? In most cases, they are not. Which is understandable – it’s hard to add something new on…

Messaging Apps Are Watching US

Messaging Apps Are Watching US

Ever since Edward Snowden made his statement, users who were worried about the safety of their communication are now just plain paranoid. Many users feel as if they’re secretly being watched, and, as a result, they are forced to be on full alert around the clock and keep their personal data under full lockdown. As…

CHINA SHUTTING DOWN FOREIGN MESSAGING APPS

CHINA SHUTTING DOWN FOREIGN MESSAGING APPS

China has made a decision to severely stand up to foreign messaging apps and begun shutting them down gradually but permanently. The problem is not even with the Celestial trying to ban the competitors of its home products. The trouble is that a lot of people use instant messaging apps and other mobile apps to…

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AppMess Video Review: Threema Messenger

In February 2014, the public’s attention was draw to the then unknown messaging app Threema, which, according to user feedback, surpassed Koum’s WhatsApp and Durov’s Telegram in terms of security. The fact that the application focuses on data protection forced us to look at it closely in order to understand how users can benefit from…

Make Way For New Viber Features

Make Way For New Viber Features

iPhone and iPad owners can already get their hands on Viber’s latest update. With the advent of the app’s most recent update, users got an opportunity to reply to messages without actually opening the app. To elaborate, interactive notifications enable us to answer messages directly from the lock screen, banner or notification center. However, only…

Stuck In Traffic? Yandex.Maps Will Find You Someone To Talk To

Stuck In Traffic? Yandex.Maps Will Find You Someone To Talk To

If you live in a big city, then you know how frustrating traffic jams can get and that they are not just water under the bridge. Yandex’s analytical center conducted a research that indicates that Russian drivers spend up to two weeks a year stuck in traffic. Perhaps, such disappointing data led to the company’s…

SKYPE BRINGING YOU WINTER MOOD

SKYPE BRINGING YOU WINTER MOOD

Are you a fan of winter? Even if you aren’t, you are most likely to be waiting for the New Year holidays to come. New Year is still over a month away and Skype has already decided to please its users by giving them holiday winter mood. Today the Skype team, following the already established…