Chorus.im Wants You To IM Anyone, On Any Device. Which Is Cool, If It Works
The team behind Chorus.im are banking on the browser as the future of anywhere, anytime communication, and its HTML5 messaging service marks…
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Articles tagged "Messaging Services"
Mon, 1 April 2013
Fri, 21 December 2012
Playing Around With Poke, Facebook's New "Safer Sexting" App For Tweens
Facebook debuts its own Snapchat-like disappearing messaging app for spies and tweens. And tween spies.
Mon, 3 December 2012
WhatsApp Denies Facebook Deal Rumor - But It Still Makes Sense
What would an messaging app like WhatsApp mean for Facebook's big mobile strategy?
Thu, 29 November 2012
The Anti-SMS: Kik Texting App Adds Image/Video Sharing
With 30 million users, Kik Messenger evolves beyond texting to multimedia too.
App.net Members Can Now Invite Friends With A Free Trial
People interested in App.net's community-funded social Web infrastructure can now try before they buy.
Tue, 20 November 2012
Uhoh. Firefox's New API Brings Facebook Chat Right To Your Browser
Firefox now lets social notifications "float above" the browsing experience in a more persistent, less cumbersome way.
Tue, 10 July 2012
Teen Sexting Really Does Mean Teen Sex
For all the parental and media hand-wringing, sexting remains a poorly studied phenomenon. But according to new peer-reviewed research, that…
Tue, 20 September 2011
Facebook Brings Sensitive News Feeds
Facebook made significant changes to how it delivers your friends' news and updates today by releasing a ticker feature and a news feed…
Wed, 14 September 2011
iMessage Will Work With iChat
When Steve Jobs unveiled iMessage, Apple's new cross-device mobile messaging feature, at the WWDC in June, fans of the company's products…
Mon, 12 September 2011
Twitter Speaks Mandarin
Twitter will support Chinese language in the coming weeks, according to a research report published today. It's not clear how well that…
Tue, 9 August 2011
Facebook Releases Dedicated Messenger App
Facebook is evolving its mobile messaging system. The company announced this afternoon a new mobile application called Messenger that stands…
Mon, 25 July 2011
Top Trends of 2011: Group Messaging
This week we're running a 5-part series of posts looking back on the significant trends of 2011. Today we're reviewing group messaging…
Tue, 14 June 2011
Skype is Coming to More TVs via New Comcast Deal
The video and voice calling service Skype is coming to a TV near you, thanks to a new partnership with Comcast, a leading provider of…
Tue, 30 November 2010
IM+ Brings its Popular Mobile Chat Client to the Web
IM+, the multi-platform chat client that runs on nearly every type of mobile phone, has found its way onto the desktop. The company has been…
Wed, 13 October 2010
CiviGuard Thinks Big With Emergency Communications Service
CiviGuard is a new mobile-based solution for emergency communications. At heart it's an alerts and notification system, with messages…
Tue, 5 October 2010
ABC "Unofficially" Partners with Twitter-Alternative StatusNet
ABC News Radio and StatusNet, the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, have "unofficially…
Tue, 20 July 2010
Miio: If Twitter were FriendFeed, Facebook and an RSS Reader. Wait, What?
Miio is a new microblogging service which is a bit like a mashup between Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and an RSS reader. Now typically…
Wed, 14 July 2010
Chatroullete Expands to Location and Channels
Chatroulette, the face-to-face random video chat service, is growing slightly less random. The service is adding Localroulette, for…
Thu, 8 July 2010
Trillian for Android On Deck
Instant messaging client Trillian announced on its blog today that an Android version will be available within a couple of weeks. Trillian…
Tue, 22 June 2010
Skype Opens Platform with SkypeKit SDK for Developers and Manufacturers
For many years, unified chat clients like Digsby or Adium have provided users with a single app with which to manage several chat…
Wed, 12 May 2010
Travelocity Says Chatroulette Marketing Works
What's this? The oddball, quirky and occasionally X-rated site that connects random strangers for video chat is a marketer's dream? That…
Tue, 11 May 2010
One Search Engine, All Your Messages: Silentale Launches Public Beta
Silentale, the new web service that backs up and archives your contacts and messages from all the communication platforms you use, has now…
Tue, 6 April 2010
Flowdock Tries to Help Turn Conversation to Knowledge
A spin-off of Finnish software development company Nodeta, Flowdock aspires to help developers and others sift out actionable bits of…
Wed, 24 March 2010
Google Voice Goes Real-Time (Well, Almost)
Google is touting a new feature for their mobile VoIP application, Google Voice: instant notification of new SMS text messages and…
