Online movie ticketing service BookMyShow is among the first batch of businesses to sign up for WhatsApp, India’s favourite messaging app with over 200 million active users, as it looks to turn many of the traditional texts digital. The move, the fruition of which is likely to take a few months, would help ... Read More »
Confide, a popular encrypted messaging app said to be used by White House officials, does not keep communications confidential as its maker promises, a proposed class-action lawsuit charges. According to a complaint filed on Thursday with the federal court in Manhattan, Confide Inc cannot assure app users of the “unequivocal ... Read More »
Truecaller on Tuesday announced some new changes and features for its Android app with Truecaller 8. Some of the major new features include SMS inbox, flash messaging, and Truecaller Pay. Apart from these new additions, Truecaller also announced its partnership with Airtel to launch Airtel Truecaller ID. Starting off with ... Read More »
Earlier this week, we reported that Google quietly launched its Hangouts Meet video conferencing service in an effort to focus more on the enterprise users with its Hangouts service. Now, Google has now officially Hangouts Meet along with text-based messaging service Hangout Chat – essentially splitting its Hangouts service ... Read More »
BlackBerry has announced its BBM Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK), which will be made available this month. The company says that the SDK will enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services. Some of the features provided with the SDK include secure messaging in ... Read More »
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry has launched BBM Enterprise SDK (software development kit), a Cloud-based communications platform as a service (CPaaS) to enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services. “We are opening up a new revenue stream for the company with a fully cloud-based ... Read More »
Microsoft is releasing another Xbox One Preview Build to those registered in the Preview Program. This build is delivering fixes for several core aspects of the console, including Messaging, Cortana, Narrator, Virtual Keyboard and Settings. With build number 1610.161103-1900, we have the following changelog: Messaging When a user attempts to send ... Read More »
If you’re using BlackBerry Messenger to relay private messages, you might want to switch apps. Amnesty International assessed 11 companies behind some of the most popular messaging apps in the world on how well they use encryption to guard your privacy. Facebook is the clear winner with 73 out of ... Read More »
We’re all familiar with the big messaging options: Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, and iMessage. But what if you don’t have an Apple device, don’t trust Facebook and WhatsApp’s encryption, and balk at the thought of embracing Google? Good news: there are a bunch of great messaging alternatives out there, ... Read More »
For mobile device users, being connected to the internet is often an essential when at home and even while on-the-go. This increasing accessibility to internet connectivity means users can forgo SMS and MMS services from traditional carriers in favor of messaging apps that allow for the sending of messages, pictures, ... Read More »
