Popular image messaging app Snapchat, known for its infamous NSFW aspect, has been drastically updated with UI improvements and speech enhancements - but image quality hasn't been enhanced. More...
Facebook is expanding its trial to charge users to contact "non-friends", with messages to celebrities and public figures costing up to $16, as the company claims its plan is simply to reduce spam. More...
Fusion has been released on the Play Store for Android, after several months of design and code work. The app was designed by the community and built by one guy, making it quite a remarkable addition. More...
Talent agent Micah Johnson was able to screencap some very unusual activity from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge $100 to deliver a message as part of a new counter-spam initiative. More...
Microsoft has updated Windows Phone's integrated Facebook Chat feature to allow you to send messages to offline contacts, where previously it would force you to send a text message to them instead. More...
Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser. Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, and more More...
Microsoft wastes no time including Skype, their latest acquisition directly into their catalog of products on Microsoft.com. Could this mean we'll see a native Windows & Windows Phone version soon? More...
A British study into cyber stalking has concluded that social networking sites such as Facebook should be making it much easier for users to report online-based abuse. According to an article on the BBC, the group... More...
Android users are fuming over a bug in Google's mobile OS that causes SMS messages to be sent to contacts other than the one chosen, or even to an entirely random contact. To make matters worse,... More...
What are you currently paying for your text messaging? Is it 20 or 25 cents or are you one of the millions of users who buy a text messaging package with your phone plan... More...
When AOL bought Bebo in March for $850 million you had to wonder what their main plans were for the service and it seems they are beginning to come up with a game plan, challenging... More...
Customers of Alltel Corporation and Verizon Wireless can now access AOL's popular instant-messaging service by using cell phone text messaging. To activate, users can simply send a blank text message to "AIMAIM". The service makes... More...
ComBOTS integrates rich media messaging, advanced telephony and reliable file transfer in one easy to use tool for PC and mobile. Simply drag large files up to 100 MB, hundreds of photos or folders with... More...
Yahoo has launched a web-based version of its free instant messaging service, allowing users to access their instant messaging contacts when on a computer with an Internet connection but without the Yahoo! Messenger software. Their... More...
IBM's Sametime has gained interoperability with public instant messaging networks from AOL and Google, and will interoperate with the one from Yahoo in a matter of weeks. IBM plans to make the announcement today, almost... More...
Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they would tear down the wall between their formerly exclusive instant messaging services and allow members to mingle beginning today. The union of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger systems... More...
In trying to end phone tag, Microsoft may find there's a lot of competition over just who is "it." The software maker on Monday announced its vision for so-called unified messaging, which brings together e-mail,... More...
Microsoft Corp. will on Wednesday release the first beta of Exchange "12"—the next version of its e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging server—to a closed group of some 1,400 testers selected from its global customer, OEM,... More...
MSN and Vodafone today announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind seamless instant messaging (IM) service between PCs and mobile phones. Customers will be able to see the "presence" of their contacts and exchange instant messages... More...
Messer Larney gave us the chance to take a sneak peek at another internal MSN Messenger 7 BETA, namely build 803. This build introduces the MSN Mobile Messaging feature that utilises SMS technology to transmit... More...
In an email to MSN beta testers, Microsoft have announced plans to start testing SMS (short message service) messaging direct from their popular chat client. SMS Messaging features were present in previous beta... More...
Thanks DJ Prem for the heads up on this. The Microsoft Beta Team have opened a new service for testing in the United States, which allows an MSN user to send a text... More...
F-Secure is warning of the first mobile phone virus transmitted via MMS - mainly used for picture messaging for mobiles. The virus, Commwarrior, is the first which can be sent from phone to phone in... More...
Nokia is making a mobile that lets you write short text messages in mid-air. The messages are written using a row of LEDs fitted on the rear cover of Nokia's forthcoming 3220... More...
Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Sunday announced a major relaunch of Yahoo Messenger, its messaging product that allows people to communicate in real-time via the Internet. The Sunnyvale, California-based company dubbed this latest update... More...
Daum Communications Corp, South Korea's top Internet portal, said on Monday it was suing Microsoft Corp and its Korean unit for alleged unfair business practices related to instant messaging software. "Microsoft used its... More...
They're out of the chat rooms and after your 'buddies' Hackers are exploiting browser security flaws to hijack instant messaging (IM) accounts, security experts have warned. When Microsoft decided to... More...
Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 11–14 Microsoft Corp. today announced that Management and Messaging will be keynote highlights at the company's second annual leading European infrastructure conference, Microsoft IT Forum 2003, which will attract... More...
After a year-long trial of one-way SMS onboard Singapore Airlines flights, airline technology provider SITA is to launch a commercial two-way service. The company is working with several airlines to introduce two-way SMS... More...
The latest version of AOL Instant Messenger introduces secure instant messages, as AOL attempts to improve its appeal to businesses America Online released on Monday an updated version of its AOL Instant Messenger service that... More...
316Software has just release an add-on Microsoft's Windows and MSN Messenger clients that allows you to have the same great spell checking features as your Microsoft Office programs. A time has come to get... More...
With the rising popularity of instant messaging There, a company which has been working for the last four years in secrecy, have created what they tout to be the 'killer app' of the Internet. They... More...
A world first study being conducted in New Zealand using mobile phone text messaging to help people quit smoking has drawn a huge response, says the study's director. Dr Anthony Rodgers, of the Clinical... More...
LONDON (Reuters) - Media giant AOL Time Warner has quietly won a U.S. patent for instant messaging, a potential goldmine as the online activity rivals mobile phone text-messaging as the most popular new communication tool.... More...
Spanish Internet media company Terra Lycos SA said on Thursday it will bring together several instant messaging services it offers globally by year-end into a new service built on IBM Corp.'s technology. ... More...
Suddenly, IT execs have multiple options for managing instant messaging. Akonix Systems Inc. is debuting its L7 software, which is designed to let IT managers wrap a layer of security around popular consumer IM apps,... More...
Thanks nexty for the heads up ;) Genie is to be one of the first to offer multimedia messaging, allowing cell phone users to send pictures and music to other wireless devices ... More...
Astronauts of the future could receive text, graphics and even video through a wearable computer built into their space suits. At present, during space walks, astronauts get their instructions via radio. ... More...
UK Mobile provider Orange has moved to pull the plug on the world's first ever text message community -- Locust Cellular Linux hacker Jon Anderson built the service, similar to wireless email and IRC chat... More...
A report by Jupiter Media Metrix (the things people do studies on!) states that officer workers are doubling their time swapping real-time messages, with the number of minutes spent instant-messaging at work in the United... More...
Microsoft plans to include APIs for writing advanced instant-messaging apps in the upcoming Windows.Net server, and may build a separate real-time collaboration server to manage them. Two application program interfaces and a communications update... More...