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Revamped Yahoo Messenger Adds Unsend Feature
In an effort to bring their venerable instant messaging service back into popularity, Yahoo has revealed a new version of their Yahoo Messenger app. This revamp brings a bevy of new features of the service, most notably introducing the ability for users to access up to a year’s worth of…
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WhatsApp’s Promise of True Encryption Proven False
Last year, the Facebook-owned messaging app Whatsapp, in a move applauded by privacy advocates, announced that it would be introducing end-to-end encryption to protect user data from being intercepted in transit, viewable only by sender and receiver. While, strictly speaking, WhatsApp did as it promised – using a system designed…
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 41 Containing Integrated IM Functionality
Mozilla has officially unveiled the latest version of Firefox which incorporates an intriguing messaging service called, ‘Hello Beta’. According to Mozilla, this is the world’s first communication tool embedded into a browser which allows users to send and receive messages during a video call. The company said about this latest…
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Google Talk for Windows to be Killed Off Tomorrow
Chat application Google Talk for Windows is to permanently close tomorrow, to be usurped indefinitely by Google Hangouts, Google’s more advanced instant messaging and video chat service. Any user planning to move from Google Talk for Windows, a standalone app, to Google Hangouts now needs to use the Chrome browser.…
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Use Wickr to Send Self-Destructing Messages From Your Desktop
Wickr, the instant messaging equivalent of Snapchat, is now available for home computers. The desktop version operates in the same way as the smartphone app, allowing users to send text, image, and audio recordings that “self-destruct” when viewed by the recipient. The messaging app has been available for Android and…
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Wire: The New Skype Rival Backed by Skype Co-Founder
A new upstart has entered the instant messaging arena, positioning itself as more than just a chat service. Wire, pitched as a thoroughly modern messaging app, is supported by Skype co-founder Janus Friis and developed by former Skype employees. With their experience – helped by former Apple, Nokia, and Microsoft…
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Go Incognito on Facebook: AdBlock Plus Can Bypass ‘Seen’ Message Notifications
Open source content filter Adblock Plus announced an appealing new feature on Tuesday: the plugin can now prevent ‘seen’ notifications from appearing below opened Facebook messages. AdBlock’s blog used the following example to illustrate the feature: “[W]hat if you don’t want them to know you’ve read their message? Why? Well,…
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Microsoft Sends First Invites for Skype for Web Beta
A beta version of Skype for Web, a clientless iteration of Microsoft’s messaging service for use as a web application within your internet browser, has been released. Since all video call, voice call, and instant messaging functionality is available in-browser, there is no need to download and install the Skype client,…
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BlackBerry Adds Stickers to its BBM Instant Messaging Applications To Attract Users
One of the best features of an instant messaging application, besides all of your friends using it, is stickers. Just like Viber, it appears that BBM is starting to offer this service to its users. BBM is planning to take advantage of the oversized emoticons phenomena to attract more people…
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Real Life Emoji’s Are Just Plain Scary
Non-profit group Innocence en Danger has created a campaign to highlight the dangers of children talking to strangers online by creating emoji’s using real human faces. The emjoi has long been used as a series of cartoony like images to show off emotions in text messages, instant messaging and skype.…
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Microsoft Working On “Bing Live Chat” Instant Messaging App
Instant messaging Apps are becoming common place among big companies these days and it seems nearly every company has one. Yahoo has had one for ages, Google is developing “Babel” aka Google Hangouts and now Microsoft is reportedly working on an instant messaging application for its Bing search engine. This…
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