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Snapchat selfies are like crime evidence

This post should have been called ‘Idiots online’, but that’s a bit too harsh. A Snapchat snapshot became a key piece of evidence in a homicide investigation. This is how it went down: 16-year-old high school student Maxwell Marion Morton shot his classmate. You probably wouldn’t have heard about this if he had just shot…

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Bet Your Bottom Dollar on Hangouts

A very treacherous path lies ahead of Google on its road to uniting calls, messaging and video! Google announced that as of 16 February the company no longer supports one of its products — Google Talk. Thus, the users are left with no other option but to switch to Hangouts. A very treacherous path lies…

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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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How to Make the WeChat of the West. Directions from the Kik’s Founder

The founder of Kik has written a long post entitled: The Race to Become the WeChat of the West. Here we offer you the major points: Back in 2009 investors believed that users need nothing but Facebook. Investors were irritating: Why do you need chat that’s just on your phone? Why just texting is not…

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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…