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It’s not too often you check out an app’s homepage and see an endorsement by Edward Snowden. Yet that’s exactly what you get when you visit Signal’s page, and Snowden’s endorsement makes a lot of sense considering that this is a secure messaging app. Unlike other secure messaging apps... Read more
Discord messaging app: Not just for gamers
Best SoftwareMessagingNewsSocial MediaSoftware Reviews May 27, 2020
If you’re even a moderate gaming enthusiast, you’ve likely heard of Discord, a messaging app that prides itself on near-instant voice chat as well as the ability to communicate via text and instant messaging. If you don’t game, chances are you’re thinking “Discord, what?” While the completely free app... Read more
Zoom Cloud Meetings: 2020 Review
Best SoftwareHow ToMessagingNewsOffice SoftwareSoftware Reviews March 31, 2020
In light of both the novel coronavirus outbreak and the rise of global business needs, the video-conferencing app Zoom has become wildly popular. While there are certainly other video-chat applications out there, Zoom adds in a set of tools, which, combined with the company’s renowned reliability makes it the... Read more
One of the latest tech start-ups to join the stock market has recorded a surge of shares. The messaging app Slack saw shares rise by 49% last week. The team organiser initially set a guide price of $26 a share. However, it rose by 60% at the start of... Read more
5 Free Messaging Apps for Windows 10
Best SoftwareMessaging June 19, 2019
It has never been so easy to communicate via the internet. Itâs getting to the point where the youth of today donât know the difference between an SMS or MMS text. Thatâs because there are so many free messaging apps for us to use when we want and how... Read more
How Android and iOS Users can Hide WhatsApp ‘Last Seen’ Status
How ToMessagingSocial Media April 16, 2019
Instant messaging means that almost everyone is reachable within just a few clicks these days. Thatâs great, right? Well, there are some slightly annoying side-effects⊠Take WhatsApp âlast seenâ notifications for example. If youâre not great at quickly responding to messages, you can definitely do without it! The globeâs... Read more
A new internet chat service has been launched, but thereâs an interesting twist. Expensive Chat, launched by entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge, will charge you a cent for every character you use. On the face of it, you wouldnât think that it would really catch on. Though, rather surprisingly, scores of... Read more
Here are the 230 new emojis that have just been approved for 2019
MessagingMobileNewsSocial Media February 8, 2019
Everybody has been talking about the latest batch of emojis, following their approval earlier this week. Unicode Consortium, the group which approve the icons before they appear on the likes of Android and iOS, has given the green light for no less than 230 new emojis. This means that... Read more
WhatsApp Business to add new web and desktop features to celebrate birthday
BusinessMessagingNewsSocial Media February 5, 2019
To celebrate its first birthday, WhatsApp Business has added some handy features to its desktop and web services. The WhatsApp Business features now available, via fresh web and desktop designs, have been confirmed. Published in an official blog post, the changes are hoped to speed up day-to-day business and... Read more
Skype suffers worst outage in its history: Problem first discovered in UK, soon spread globally affecting millions of users worldwide: âSkype for Businessâ was unaffected. â#Skypefallâ trends on Twitter within 2 hours What happens when the worldâs preeminent video call service breaks down? Everyone logs into Twitter and complains... Read more
One of the hot names in productivity apps and platforms is WhatsApp, a messaging feature that is streamlining business operation, especially for project teams and telecommuting personnel. The mobile app WhatsApp syncs automatically with the users’ desktops through the WhatsApp Web platform, which originally launched only for Google Chrome.... Read more
As easy, inexpensive computer-based communication tools get more and more accessible, the features they have to offer are on the rise. One company, Camfrog, has developed a platform that lets you video chat, audio chat, text, and participate in chat room-style conversations with thousands of people…simultaneously. This free... Read more
There are countless ways to communicate using your tech devices, and Viber just might be the most fun way. It’s free to use when making calls, chatting, or sending files to other Viber users, no matter where they are. You might be thinking, “Doesn’t Skype already do that?” and... Read more
It looks like the Hangouts makeover Android fans have been asking for is finally happening, and it’s all thanks to Android Police. Google Hangouts has grown messy over time with a ton of features like Google voice calling, video chat, and even SMS messaging and users have not been... Read more
WhatsApp has been busy over the last few days releasing update after update of their instant messaging app. Today, WhatsApp 2.12.114 was released but this version is still currently in beta. Because the update is in beta, WhatsApp users cannot download the update from the Google Play Store, you... Read more
The tech and software industry is buzzing after a new email app by Microsoft called “Flow” was leaked on Tuesday (May 19, 2015). Yesterday, the first screenshots unveiling the app leaked. The software giant has yet to announce the app, but a new download page – “Microsoft Confidential” –... Read more
Microsoft has removed its Skype Translator preview out of closed beta and made the software available to anyone running Windows 8.1 or the Windows 10 Technical Preview. No sign-up is necessary. The announcement regarding the released update was posted on Microsoft’s Skype blog last week. Skype Translator currently comes... Read more
Microsoft made the announcement recently that they’ve made the leap from the original Lync program (which actually used to be called the Star Trekish Microsoft Office Communicator) to Skype for Business; a separate interface from the widely-used Skype application that intends to make business calls and messaging even better than... Read more