Slashdot Items Tagged "messaging"

Date / Time Story
Monday April 01, 2024 @05:34PM Telegram Challenges Meta With the Launch of New 'Business' Features, Revenue-Sharing
Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:25PM Study Finds Anti-Piracy Messages Backfire, Especially For Men
Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:40PM Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames
Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:54PM Gmail Unleashes 'Email Emoji Reactions' Onto an Unsuspecting World
Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:32PM Clubhouse Is Pivoting From Live Audio To Group Messaging
Monday August 14, 2023 @06:01PM Iraq Lifts Ban On Telegram After Messaging App Complies With Authorities
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:35PM Telegram Adds Stories For Premium Subscribers
Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:36PM Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:30PM FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages
Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:28PM WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:07AM What Is the Difference Between Instant Messaging Apps and Text Messaging Apps?
Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:52PM WhatsApp Boss Says No To AI Filters Policing Encrypted Chat
Monday July 18, 2022 @04:10PM Snapchat Is Finally Coming To the Web
Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:04PM Google Messages RCS Is Being Abused For Ads In India
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:05PM Hong Kong Considers Blocking Telegram As Part of Crackdown On Doxing
Friday March 18, 2022 @05:28PM Brazil's Supreme Court Bans Telegram
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:48PM Google Says iMessage Is Too Powerful
Friday December 03, 2021 @06:51PM Debt Collectors Can Now Text, Email and DM You On Social Media
Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:48PM FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps
Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:32PM Apple Bans Pay Equity Slack Channel
Monday April 26, 2021 @04:21PM Inventive Grandson Builds Telegram Messaging Machine For 96-Year-Old Grandmother
Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:10PM T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Have Reportedly Killed Their RCS Joint Venture
Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:09PM Pebble Founder Says His New App Brings iMessage To Android With a Little 'Trickery'
Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:05AM WhatsApp Clarifies It's Not Giving All Your Data To Facebook
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:26PM Telegram Adds 25 Million New Users In Just 72 Hours
Monday December 14, 2020 @06:41PM Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App
Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:49PM Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions of Users' Private Photos and Files
Monday October 26, 2020 @06:18PM Study Shows Which Messengers Leak Your Data, Drain Your Battery, and More
Friday October 16, 2020 @05:15PM Google Is Beginning the Forced Migration From Hangouts To Chat Next Year
Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:19PM 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online For Anyone To Read
Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:00PM Facebook Launches Cross-Platform Messaging On Instagram and Messenger
Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:24PM Facebook Issues New Rules On Internal Employee Communication
Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:16PM WeChat Users Won't Be Targeted By Trump's Order, US Says
Friday August 21, 2020 @04:50PM Telegram Messaging App Proves Crucial To Belarus Protests
Friday July 24, 2020 @05:54PM Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters
Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:53PM Gmail Is About To Start Testing Verification-Like Logos For Email
Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:53PM Discord Removes Servers Dedicated To Pirating Porn
Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:56PM Slack Partners With Amazon To Take On Microsoft Teams
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:04PM 'The Matrix' Co-Founder Slams Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk
Friday May 08, 2020 @05:35PM Google Unifies All of Its Messaging and Communication Apps Into a Single Team
Friday April 24, 2020 @07:10PM Facebook Takes On Zoom With 'Messenger Rooms'
Friday April 10, 2020 @10:23PM Everyone Can Now Access Their Instagram DMs On the Web
Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:14PM Signal Threatens To Dump US Market If EARN IT Act Passes
Monday February 17, 2020 @08:57PM Israeli Soldiers Tricked Into Installing Malware By Hamas Agents Posing As Women
Monday February 17, 2020 @05:36PM Google Confirms It Again Removed Alleged Spying Tool ToTok From Google Play
Friday February 14, 2020 @06:16PM Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging To the Masses
Monday February 10, 2020 @08:04PM IBM Picks Slack Over Microsoft Teams For Its 350,000 Employees
Monday February 10, 2020 @05:42PM Facebook Workplace Co-Founder Launches Downtime Fire Alarm Kintaba
Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:07PM Google is About To Take on Slack and Teams With a New 'Unified' Communication App
Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:38PM The Four Major Carriers Finally Agree To Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard
Friday October 18, 2019 @05:35PM MediaLab Buys Kik
Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:15AM Messaging App Kik Shuts Down as Company Focuses on Kin, Its Cryptocurrency
Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:10PM China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says
Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:36PM Google Postpones Shutdown of Hangouts For G Suite Users
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:07PM Google Reveals Fistful of Flaws In Apple's iMessage App
Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:40PM Microsoft Might Crush Slack Like Facebook Crushed Snapchat
Monday July 08, 2019 @05:46PM Instagram To Notify Users Comments Might Be Offensive Before They Are Posted
Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:37PM iOS 13 Will Add Fake Eye Contact To FaceTime For Improved Intimacy
Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:32AM Slack Is Going Public At $16 Billion Value
Monday June 17, 2019 @07:42PM Google Is Finally Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout
Friday May 17, 2019 @05:15PM Slack Patches Vulnerability In Windows Client That Could Be Used To Hijack Files
Thursday April 18, 2019 @06:36PM BlackBerry Messenger To Shut Down In May
Monday April 15, 2019 @04:52PM DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp
Monday March 25, 2019 @12:41PM Telegram Adds 'Delete Everywhere' Nuclear Option -- Killing Chat History
Friday March 22, 2019 @07:09PM Jared & Ivanka: Couple 'Continues To Use' Private Messaging For White House Business, Top Democrat Says
Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:57PM Facebook Is Working On a New Cryptocurrency For WhatsApp Payments
Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:38PM BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement
Monday February 04, 2019 @06:04PM Slack Says It's Filed To Go Public
Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:25PM Google Will Start Retiring Hangouts For G Suite Users In October
Monday January 14, 2019 @08:29PM Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox?
Monday December 17, 2018 @05:47PM FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages
Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:06PM Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging
Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:03PM California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents
Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:46PM FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages
Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:30PM Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report
Friday November 30, 2018 @05:57PM Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020
Friday September 07, 2018 @11:51PM Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:52PM Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech
Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:44PM The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved
Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:32PM WhatsApp Warns Free Google Drive Backups Are Not End-To-End Encrypted
Monday August 13, 2018 @04:47PM Apple Delays 32-Person Group FaceTime From iOS 12 Launch
Friday July 27, 2018 @05:21PM Should Bots Be Required To Tell You That They're Not Human?
Sunday July 22, 2018 @03:11PM Open Gov't Advocates Fear that Private Messaging Apps Are Being Misused by Public Officials To Conduct Business in Secret
Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:36PM Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime?
Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:45AM Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:43PM Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store
Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:16PM Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms
Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:36AM Microsoft Also Has An AI Bot That Makes Phone Calls To Humans
Friday May 11, 2018 @06:26PM Microsoft Turned Customers Against the Skype Brand
Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:33PM Telegram's Billion-Dollar ICO Has Become a Mess
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:30AM Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots
Monday April 30, 2018 @04:56PM Chinese Government Admits Collection of Deleted WeChat Messages
Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:42PM Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard
Monday April 16, 2018 @02:08PM France is Building Its Own Encrypted Messaging Service To Ease Fears That Foreign Entities Could Spy on Private Conversations
Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:17AM Jaywalkers Under Surveillance In China Will Soon Be Punished Via Text Messages
Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:06AM Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:11PM WhatsApp Co-Founder Tells Everyone To Delete Facebook, Further Fueling the #DeleteFacebook Movement
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:41PM Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys
Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:44AM Google's Slack Competitor 'Hangouts Chat' Comes Out of Beta
Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:50PM WhatsApp Security Flaws Could Be Exploited To Covertly Add Members To Group Chats
Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:08PM WeChat To Become China's Official Electronic ID System
Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:22PM PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow
Monday October 09, 2017 @08:57PM PSA: Microsoft Is Using Cortana To Read Your Private Skype Conversations
Friday October 06, 2017 @04:03PM Regulate Facebook Like AIM
Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:04AM Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit For Tweets To 280
Monday September 25, 2017 @04:07PM China Blocks WhatsApp
Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:04AM Chatbot Lets You Sue Equifax For Up To $25,000 Without a Lawyer
Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:12PM Facebook Finds a New Service To Copy: Tinder
Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:04PM Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet On Digital Coin Offering
Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:03PM Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger
Friday August 18, 2017 @04:21PM Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival
Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:29PM Google Allo For Chrome Finally Arrives, But Only For Android Users
Monday August 14, 2017 @04:39PM Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology
Monday August 07, 2017 @03:09PM YouTube Adds Mobile Chat, Because Google Doesn't Have Enough Messaging Apps
Monday July 17, 2017 @10:02AM Amazon May Unveil Its Own Messaging App
Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:51PM 41 Percent of Adults In the US Have Been Harassed Online, Says Pew Study
Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:31PM Skype Users Slam Microsoft's Attempt To Infuse App With Social Media Magic
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:00PM Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends
Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:54PM Messenger App Kik Debuts Its Own Digital Currency
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:35PM WhatsApp Users Are Reporting Outages Worldwide
Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:29PM Microsoft's Skype Is Most Used Messaging Service For Cyber Criminals, Study Finds
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:22PM GitLab Acquires Software Chat Startup Gitter, Will Open-Source the Code
Monday March 13, 2017 @04:54PM Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem?
Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:53AM AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:54AM Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed
Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:32AM Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1
Friday February 03, 2017 @06:58PM IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Running, Popular Message Boards After 16 Years
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:58PM Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:58PM Bill Gates: Trump's Messaging Strategy Reminds Me of JFK
Friday December 02, 2016 @12:16AM China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It
Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:50PM Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform
Friday November 04, 2016 @06:45PM Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor
Friday October 28, 2016 @10:44AM Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours
Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:29AM WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Video Calls On Its Android App
Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:24PM 176 Original Emojis Join Van Gogh and Picasso At Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:23AM Nuclear Plants Leak Critical Alerts In Unencrypted Pager Messages
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:30PM Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:44PM Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena and Gag Order
Friday September 30, 2016 @06:17PM Facebook 'Messenger Day' Is the Chat App's New Snapchat Stories Clone
Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:50AM Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature
Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:56AM Google Allo Messaging App Launches For iOS and Android
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:00PM Cuba Is Blocking Text Messages That Contain Words Like 'Democracy'
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:29PM Microsoft Working On Skype Teams, Its Slack Competitor
Friday August 26, 2016 @10:05AM Facebook's WhatsApp Data Gambit Faces Federal Privacy Complaint
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:10AM Microsoft Buys AI-Powered Scheduling App Genee
Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:19PM France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative
Monday August 01, 2016 @07:15PM Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun
Monday August 01, 2016 @06:47PM QRLJacking Attack Can Bypass Any QR Login System
Thursday July 28, 2016 @04:09PM WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials
Monday July 04, 2016 @06:26PM Google Cast Is Now Baked Into Chrome, No Extension Needed
Monday June 20, 2016 @06:31PM Russian Bill Requires Encryption Backdoors In All Messenger Apps
Friday June 17, 2016 @04:25PM Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android
Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:13PM Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report: Messaging Apps Could Rival Home Screen
Monday May 30, 2016 @04:34PM Iran Forces Messaging Apps To Move Data To Iranian Servers
Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:12PM Patent Troll VirnetX Wants To Ban FaceTime and iMessage, Increase Damages Award By $190M
Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:08PM Don't Use Google Allo
Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:46PM Google Turns Firebase Into Its Unified Platform For Mobile Developers
Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:49PM Google Announces Allo, Duo, Stable Android N Preview, Instant Apps
Tuesday May 17, 2016 @12:58AM Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit
Friday May 13, 2016 @05:51PM Professor Surprises Students With AI Teacher Assistant
Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:16PM Microsoft Overhauls SharePoint To Compete With Slack In The Mobile Era
Monday April 25, 2016 @02:04PM US Begins Dropping 'Cyberbombs' On ISIS
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @05:19PM Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats
Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:43PM Chat App Kik Beats Facebook To Launching a Bot Store
Monday April 04, 2016 @11:57AM BlackBerry Makes Privacy and Control Subscription in BBM Free
Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:12PM Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging
Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:23PM Facebook's Messenger Bot Store Could Be Most Important Launch Since App Store
Friday March 11, 2016 @06:51PM Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App
Friday February 12, 2016 @10:02AM Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps
Friday July 17, 2015 @07:20AM Facebook Finally Ends XMPP Support For 3rd Party Chat
Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:44AM How Jan Koum Steered WhatsApp Into $16B Facebook Deal
Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:44AM GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients
Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:45AM Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging
Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:52PM Emergency Broadcast System Coming To Cell Phones
Saturday August 07, 2010 @12:25PM Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages