Tag: Messaging
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Google I/O 2016: Smart & Video Messaging with Allo & Duo Apps
Yesterday’s Google I/O event has really set an impressive outline for the Android platform moving forward throughout the next 12 months and amongst the exciting new additions there comes a pair of revolutionary new messaging apps called Allo and Duo. Firstly we have Allo, which is a new chat-based smart messaging application that is being […]
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Whatsapp is Now Subscription Free – But There’s a Small Catch
WhatsApp has announced that it will be making a change to its business model and will be going subscription free from today onwards. However, there is a small catch which is being introduced in place of the minimal annual fee. Jan Koum the CEO of Whatsapp, the popular Facebook-owned text-replacement service which currently tallies up […]
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Twitter unveils new group Direct Messages and video sharing features
While I’m sure we can all agree, Twitter is very much a public social media platform, but saying that it has always had the ability to allow users to send private messages to each other if they wish – also known as Direct Messaging. Well today, Twitter has announced a couple new features which are likely […]
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WhatSIM – Dedicated WhatsApp SIM Card Goes on Sale
A dedicated WhatsApp SIM card has been launched offering unlimited chat for a whole year at a cost of just €10. ZeroMobile has produced the WhatSIM which has no network allegiances and can work from almost anywhere. It does this by automatically seeking out and piggybacking a connection off of more than 400 mobile carriers […]
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WhatsApp Grows To 700 Million Users
WhatsApp has been going forward in leaps and bounds with regards to user numbers – the messaging network now boasts a user base of 700 million, and apparently messages sent on the service every day total to around 30 billion. The numbers we see today in the tech world get more staggering every year, and […]
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Messenger app Viber introduces new social gaming
The popular instant messaging app Viber which has around 209 million monthly active users, has announced that it will be expanding into games, following in the footsteps of Line, We Chat and also Kakao. It’s been a relatively quit year for Viber; it was bought by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million back in February this […]
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Google Hangouts App Arrives on Windows
Google’s Hangouts service is benefiting from the company’s latest new push behind the software, with the app now arriving on Windows and the Chrome OS as a dedicated standalone platform, meaning you won’t need to bring it up through an internet browser – you can just load it on its own. SEE ALSO: Beta Program […]
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Slingshot is Facebook’s New Snapchat Competitor
Just when you thought you had enough apps to contend with… Slingshot is a new and exciting way of communicating with your friends and phone contacts via images and short videos, designed by Facebook’s Creative Labs. It’s free, doesn’t require a Facebook account for use and redefines some of the parameters we’re familiar with when […]
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WhatsApp releases its first ever Free messaging SIM Card
Free messaging service WhatsApp have made a bold move today, by entering themselves into the MNVO market in Germany with its first ever WhatsApp SIM Card. The service will be launched on the e-Plus German network, where the SIM card will offer unlimited messaging. Currently the WhatsApp SIM is only available in Germany, and on […]
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Bebo Re-Branded As Blab, Offers ‘Walkie-Talkie’ Video Messaging
If you thought Steve Jobs and Bill gates are (and were) great businessmen, get a load of Michael Birch, the entrepreneur formerly formerly of Bebo. The double formerly being because in 2008 Birch and other shareholders in the site sold the social network (very much on its way out at that time) for 850 Million […]
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Google Hangouts launched to unify Google’s chat services
Google unifies Talk, Chat and Hangouts with new software
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WhatsApp, BBM and iMessage Free messaging more popular than SMS Text
Research group Informa have revealed that more smartphone users use in-app messaging services now than the traditional network operated text messaging. Services such as WhatsApp, BBM, iMessage and Facebook have overtaken the traditional network text message for the first time ever. Informa claims that 17.6 billion mobile phone text messages were sent worldwide on average […]