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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Google's new cross-platform group messaging service is pushing out to devices
Hangouts, the long-rumored messaging service from Google that pulls together text, photo, video and group cha...
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by Richard Devine
May 15, 2013
Much rumored service becomes official, available today for Android, iOS and the web
Messaging has been one of the hot topics leading up to Google I/O, and today Vic Gundotra took to the stage an...
Article
by Andrew Martonik
May 07, 2013
Seamlessly continue conversations, calls and video chats from mobile to desktop
Popular cross-platform messaging and VOIP service Viber is introducing brand new desktop apps along with a comp...
Review
by Andrew Martonik
Apr 02, 2013
You'll be able to text from your tablet with your carrier number, but there are some UI struggles along the way
As Android tablets become more and more popular -- especially the smaller 7-in...
Article
by Andrew Martonik
Mar 21, 2013
Verizon is updating its own messaging app today to support cross-platform syncing of SMS and MMS messages using your Verizon phone number. Users taking advantage of the Verizon Messages app on their...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
Path has just been updated to add private messaging, stickers and "The Shop" to fall in line with the update that hit iOS yesterday. If you're not familiar, Path is a social network th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 15, 2013
Skype is actively testing a new video messaging service with a "group of mobile and mac users" according to its official Twitter account today. The new feature, which doesn't require a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 04, 2013
The screenshot above, while not Android, is extremely interesting regardless because of what it may be showing off. Posted by developer François Beaufort, what's seen here is a Chrome OS ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 23, 2013
Group messaging service GroupMe has had an invite-only beta program going for its latest update -- v4.0 -- since early November, and has now finally released it to the Play Store. This latest update...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 08, 2012
One of the more popular group messaging services out there, GroupMe, has just released a beta of its latest update -- version 4.0. The whole idea of version 4.0 is a cleaner and simpler to use inter...
Article
by Simon Sage
Oct 12, 2012
The popular IM+ messaging app for Android by Shape has recently been updated to version 6.4 with a handful of solid new features, including fresh emoticons and a bunch of new notification optio...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2012
Our pals at Borange today unleashed Textie for Android, bringing cross-platform text and picture messaging from the land of iOS (they've had something in the neighborhood of 1.6 million dow...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 06, 2011
We're not short on messaging solutions on the Android platform, so the latest offering, Hub from Yahoo, may not seem particularly enticing. BBM is undoubtedly the king of mobile messaging, but c...
Article
by Chris Parsons
Nov 08, 2011
If you're still maintaining multiple IM clients on your device, then you'll know how frustrating it can be at times having to keep them all in check. Luckily, there are some apps out there t...
Article
by Chris Parsons
Oct 14, 2011
Back when it was announced in August, Samsung had no official launch date for their ChatON messaging service so many were left to wonder what, exactly it would arrive. As it turns out, it's avai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 09, 2011
While the cool kids are off doing their group huddles on Google+, Facebook keeps plugging away, and a new dedicated group messing app apparently is in the works. Hardly a surprise, given that Facebook...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 03, 2011
It's kinda been the white whale of smartphone nerds -- RIM's BlackBerry Messenger running on something other than a BlackBerry. We've seen a number of third-party clients come and go with occasi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 01, 2011
Beluga has quickly become one of our favorite group messaging/chat/IM clients on Android, so much so that we gave it the old college try during CES in January -- not exactly a time to be testing anyt...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 26, 2010
The Android 2.2 update for the Motorola Droid X was an extremely anticipated update, to put it mildly. After having some time to play with it, a good many of us found that there was a rather strange a...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 08, 2010
AT&T has released a software update for the Motorola Backflip to improve performance and fix bugs, but it's not an update to Eclair just yet. Instead, you're getting:Improved Text Messaging: Gene...
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by Casey Chan
May 13, 2009
Per BGR, it looks like T-Mobile is going to make some changes to data and messaging plans that might not fly well with their customers. Starting sometime in June, data plans will now be required for a...
