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SNAPCHAT AND CONFIDENTIALITY TERMS: RUMOURS ARE A DISEASE

SNAPCHAT AND CONFIDENTIALITY TERMS: RUMOURS ARE A DISEASE

The recent update of Snapchat Terms of Use brought up lots of rumours. Last weekend the Web got boiling with information that Snapchat has laid its hands on the user content ownership right – messages, videos and photos. When these rumours reached printed media, the Snapchat team rushed to calm users down and disproved the…

WIRE ROLLS OUT ON WINDOWS

WIRE ROLLS OUT ON WINDOWS

Wire Messenger presents a new version for Windows 7, 8 and 10. Now, all of its users can communicate through Wire from their PCs. By the way, the messaging app is already adapted to run on iOS, Android, and OS X. The new version for Windows has plenty of communication opportunities that will improve user…

COMMUNICATE VIA SKYPE RIGHT FROM MS OFFICE DOCUMENTS

COMMUNICATE VIA SKYPE RIGHT FROM MS OFFICE DOCUMENTS

Millions of users have been closely watching Microsoft corporation and its updates for several months already. E.g., the announced next-generation functionalities of the new Office 2016 package, which is actually an addition to the Office 365 service, has promised users great improvements in their MS Office experience. Such as, MS Office will be synched with…

ICQ GETS PRESTIGIOUS GOOGLE PLAY AWARD

ICQ GETS PRESTIGIOUS GOOGLE PLAY AWARD

For many people ICQ is not just an ordinary messenger. This particular app introduced the whole planet to the world of instant messaging and was the cause for people spending long hours chatting in groups or private conversations. The particular ICQ notification sound of a new incoming message is always recognizable too. It was ICQ…

Miitomo Smartphone App Gives Users Freedom To Create Characters

Miitomo Smartphone App Gives Users Freedom To Create Characters

Japan’s video gaming corporation, Nintendo, has announced the release of a mobile communication app. The new gaming communication app got the name Miitomo. The app’s main feature is that users need to create a Mii to communicate. Miis are user-made virtual characters. Consumers of Nintendo’s gaming products may already be familiar with these animated characters….

HAVE FUN WITH NEW SKYPE VIDEO FILTERS

HAVE FUN WITH NEW SKYPE VIDEO FILTERS

Skype has recently launched Mojis, released Skype Translator. Now it has decided to diversify user communication experience even further and is implementing video filters. They will be available in the messaging app’s recent version for Android, iPhone and iPad. You can apply these filters to short video messages and your recipients will be able to…

GIPHY WORKS ON ITS OWN. FACEBOOK MESSENGER LEFT BEHIND

GIPHY WORKS ON ITS OWN. FACEBOOK MESSENGER LEFT BEHIND

Giphy, the popular web resource for searching and sharing GIF-files, once gave a new lease of life to gifs when it launched its own mobile app back in March 2015 – Giphy + Messenger. This app used Facebook Messenger as the basis and it allowed the messenger’s users exchange gifs they found in the Giphy…

STAY ANONYMOUS WITH TOR MESSENGER. BETA VERSION UNDERWAY

STAY ANONYMOUS WITH TOR MESSENGER. BETA VERSION UNDERWAY

More than a year ago, Tor Project team began developing Tor Messenger – a messaging app, whose purpose is to make user correspondence completely anonymous. Tor Messenger is based on Mozilla’s Instantbird. Now the team announced the launch of an open beta testing for the app. The team announced it on October 29, 2015. The…

SKYPE: FINAL HALLOWEEN PREPARATIONS

SKYPE: FINAL HALLOWEEN PREPARATIONS

This year Skype has really got into Halloween topic and decided to give its users tricks and tips. Everybody has already seen the mysterious smileys ‘dwelling’ in Skype – the pumpkin, the ghost, the witch, the vampire and the skeleton. As Halloween draws closer, the messaging app is adding new little things and offering tips….

RuGram Offers 200 Emojis For Russians

RuGram Offers 200 Emojis For Russians

Emojis have successfully incorporated themselves into every messaging app. Before messaging apps came along, smileys were used to convey emotion in SMS communication through brackets, colons, hyphens and other punctuation marks. Eventually, they were replaced by graphic prototypes, and now everyone has entire sets of emojis at their disposal — various ideograms that reflect, sometimes…