Tag: messaging apps
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Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel… more ›
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ten years ago, WIRED published a news story about how two little-known, slightly ramshackle encryption apps called RedPhone and TextSecure were merging to form something called Signal. https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/ more ›
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Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind of acquisition: it’s buying Texts, a universal messaging… more ›
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IIn 2021, Statista estimated that 3.09 billion cell phone users have used messaging apps to communicate. The leader? WhatsApp with over two billion monthly active users, followed by WeChat, Messenger,… more ›
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In the days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, used his Telegram channel to send a defiant video message from the centre of the capital,… more ›
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Chat is only the latest incarnation of human communication. The problem, now, is that basic communication is too complicated and time consuming. Today, even with fancy smartphones and LTE networks, exchanging… more ›
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WhatsApp is being remodeled in front of our eyes. Watch what happens because even if you don’t use the messaging app, the changes could reshape the direction of the internet.… more ›
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Bots, the next frontier » The market for apps is maturing. Now one for text-based services, or chatbots, looks poised to take off “YOU are a developer and you’ve just… more ›