28The release of the smart watch has, undoubtedly, marked a new starting point not only for technological developments, but for messaging applications as well. For example, one of our favorite apps, Viber, has gone down the same path that its rivals, Facebook Messenger and WhatsАpp, did. Viber too has rolled out watchOS 2 for the Apple…
27This week, many Viber users in Ukraine got a reason to think about switching to a new messaging app. The reason behind it being that users were startled by the news that Viber is moving its servers in the framework of the Personal Data Law adopted in Russian on September 1, 2015. In order to…
25Messaging apps develop at lightning speed in today’s realities. We have an enormous number of apps to choose from as it is, but, in spite of this, new ones are released almost every week. Now every user can pick the messaging app that they want and that is tailored to satisfy their needs. Nonetheless, putting…
23Messaging apps have recently become a great discussion topic among Russians. First Viber servers were moved to Russia and now another thing has happened – spam is preventing messengers from operating properly. There has even been an official government meeting on that subject. During the meeting, the working group of the Federal Council discussed the…
20Viber’s Ukraine-based users have some serious cause for concern. The reason behind it lies in the fact that the company’s servers were recently moved to Russia and Viber’s Ukrainian supporters are now like a canary in a coalmine. Viber users from Ukraine started thinking about switching to an alternative application right after Russia adopted the amendments…
26The messaging app with Russian roots, Telegram, has recently introduced updated Android and iOS versions of its product. The introduction of group chats, a.k.a. Channels, is, probably, the highlight of the update. Channels provides users with open, public chats with an unlimited number of subscribers. The chats are typically centered around one event, topic or…
25Standard SMS services were muscled out of the market by instant messaging services a long time ago. And, while mobile operators are losing huge amounts of money, communication giants such as Viber and WhatsApp are walking on air. But there’s another messaging app, Wavee, that is winning on both fronts: not only is it capable…
23The ex-CEO of the VK.com Russian social network has been making quite a few public offences lately. First, he was rude corresponding with Viber CEO, calling Viber stickers “shit”. This time he went at WhatsApp. During his interview on September 21, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, Pavel Durov began to talk about WhatsApp saying that “it…
22Between morning and midday on Monday, September 21, Microsoft’s Skype stopped working correctly. An unknown failure caught the app at about 8.23 GMT. Without wasting their time, users of the app from all over the world began hanging posts about this error in social networks. Curiously enough, Skype keeps operating on many computers and portable…
21Homemade stuff Three months ago Alexander Zharov, the head of Roscomnadzor (Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), has suggested developing a Russian national IM app as part of the current import phase-out program. The first to take up this initiative were IT-engineers from the Disprice project team in Novosibirsk….