Posts with tag WhatsApp

NEW SKYPE FEATURE: INVITE PEOPLE TO GROUP CHATS VIA LINK

NEW SKYPE FEATURE: INVITE PEOPLE TO GROUP CHATS VIA LINK

Ever since its foundation, Skype, it seems, has only been making achievements close to impossible. This messenger has let people overcome the limits of distance and regional borders, allowing them to communicate with those who are thousands of kilometers away. With Skype you can forget about language barriers, – the simultaneous translation feature will let…

END-TO-END ENCRYPTION TO PROTECT LINE USER DATA

END-TO-END ENCRYPTION TO PROTECT LINE USER DATA

Japanese messaging app Line, which has been keeping its users happy with free communication opportunities, decided to increase the security level of transmitted data with end-to-end encryption. Now, the app’s mobile version, which is used by more than 211 million people every month, got additional protection from interception from unauthorized persons. The new security feature…

WHATSAPP TO SUPPORT 3D TOUCH AND APPLE WATCH

WHATSAPP TO SUPPORT 3D TOUCH AND APPLE WATCH

The coming update to WhatsApp messenger will be beneficial for users by providing them with new functionalities. I.e., the tester of the WhatsApp updated version, the German developer WALID, announced in his Tweeter that the new version of the app would now support 3D Touch display technology. Let us recall that iPhone 6s and iPhone…

WHATSAPP UPDATE TO BRING “QUICK REPLY” FEATURE FOR IOS

WHATSAPP UPDATE TO BRING “QUICK REPLY” FEATURE FOR IOS

The absence of a “quick reply” issue in WhatsApp has been hot for several years already. By the time iOS 9 comes out, the next update of the messaging app will let users benefit from all the advantages and positive sides of using Quick Reply.   The information about WhatsApp adopting the new iOS 9…

BlackBerry BBM Out For The Apple Watch

BlackBerry BBM Out For The Apple Watch

Here’s a fun observation: US online news publication International Business Times reported that by releasing a version of its product for the Apple Watch, BlackBerry effectively outpaced both Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. As if they aren’t aware of the fact that Facebook Messenger came out for the smart watch mid-September. In any case, this is…

AppMess Review: Wavee free download

AppMess Review: Wavee free download

Standard 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…

PAVEL DUROV CLAIMS WHATSAPP SUCKS

PAVEL DUROV CLAIMS WHATSAPP SUCKS

The 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…

SKYPE FREEZES FROM AN UNKNOWN TECHNICAL FAILURE

SKYPE FREEZES FROM AN UNKNOWN TECHNICAL FAILURE

Between 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…

ANOTHER GREAT RUSSIAN AMBITION. NEW IM APP KUKOO

ANOTHER GREAT RUSSIAN AMBITION. NEW IM APP KUKOO

Homemade 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….

HERE WE GO AGAIN: SAMSUNG RELEASES ITS SECOND IM APP

HERE WE GO AGAIN: SAMSUNG RELEASES ITS SECOND IM APP

If you thing of think of a Samsung IM app, then you can recall the story about the ChatON app that worked for four years and then disappeared from all markets. The Korean development company realised that it has no chances competing with such a heavyweight as WhatsApp. Just half a year after their first…