Today is quite a big one in terms of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, as long awaited SMS contents from the various cellphones have been read out in court. Reeva’s text / Whatsapp messages have revealed that she was scared of him sometimes.
Last month, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that the messaging platform company are planning to add voice over IP (VoIP) functionality to their app. A screenshot of what it might look like has been leaked, showing the proposed feature on an iOS smartphone.
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By now you would have been bust with a dubious images in your phone’s camera roll. Usually these dubious images come from friends who sent them to you in Whatsapp. This is how you ensure they stay in Whatsapp..
Two years ago everyone was talking about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion. Back then we thought it to be an abhorrently large amount of money for a site almost dedicated to cat pictures, duck face selfies and filtered food porn. Well Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp dwarfs that deal.
In the days leading up to Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, Google CEO Larry Page was willing to beat Facebook’s offer. So what happened that caused WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to decline Google?
By now you’ll have heard that Facebook has purchased Whatsapp, an app that most consumers use for free, for $19 billion. The deal was signed at a very sentimental location for co-founder Jan Koum: the former North County Social Services office – the place where he used to stand in line to collect food stamps.
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For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
A Hyde Park High School teacher has been arrested after he sent a picture of himself naked in the bath. This image formed part of a Whatsapp chat with a 16-year-old kid. Unfortunately for him, it was actually the kid’s mother..
A copycat killer in Costa Rica, known only by his surname, Macotelo, is accused of killing his girlfriend Melissa Zuniga. After a heated argument, he apparently strangled his girlfriend to death, took a picture of her body, and sent it to her sister via Whatsapp.
The music video for Katy Perry’s new single, ‘Roar’ dropped this week, and the people of the internet have lost their collective minds over the narrative, which is explained almost entirely via cutaways of a Whatsapp conversation. Well how about that. The modern world, hey kids?
It is refreshing to hear that some companies prioritise the consumers wants and needs over their own. WhatsApp’s founders could be a lot wealthier than they already are, but choose not to utilise those paths.
The newest kid on the personal communication app scene is WeChat. Having burst on to the global market after a lengthy incubation in China, the Tencent-owned startup is proving to be one of China’s most promising players on the tech scene, and it is threatening to take Whatsapp’s lunch money.
Android phone users who have the Viber app have been issued warnings by security firms that there may be a bug in the popular chat application that allows hackers to bypass screen locks and take control of the phone. So how many people are at risk? 50 million, give or take.
A lot of people are not enjoying the feature on Whatsapp which let’s everyone know when last you checked Whatsapp. It’s especially annoying when people have written to you and now know that you are ignoring them as your ‘timestamp’ says you were there..
Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp poses “no threat” to phone carriers who rely on SMS revenue. Given the popularity of the service, that statement seems pretty hard to believe at first glance. Who chooses to send paid-for SMSes anymore when you can WhatsApp your buddies to your heart’s content (or until your thumbs malfunction) for free?