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Tag: messaging

Apple is right to keep ignoring Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess

Thursday, September 15, 2022 9:51 am4 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Android green bubbles will remain as it continues to ignore Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess…

Apple reportedly to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:44 pmTuesday, January 8, 20196 Comments

Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…

Apple can transform enterprise communications — if they do this

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 1:32 pmTuesday, January 8, 20198 Comments

While enterprises are certainly (and appropriately) adopting Apple’s solutions across their internal infrastructure, they must still communicate with customers…

Why Apple should release Messages for Android

Monday, April 30, 2018 5:33 pm40 Comments

In light of last week’s news that Google is backing a next-gen version of text messaging with iMessage-like features…

Google’s ‘Chat’ is not end-to-end encrypted like Apple’s iMessage

Monday, April 23, 2018 2:04 pm21 Comments

Google has been quietly corralling every major cellphone carrier on the planet into adopting technology to replace SMS…

Russia wants Apple to ban secure, encrypted messaging app Telegram from App Store

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 9:27 amTuesday, April 17, 201813 Comments

Russia’s state telecommunications regulator wants Apple and Google to remove the Telegram messenger app…

Why would Amazon want to get into messaging?

Monday, July 17, 2017 5:35 pmMonday, July 17, 201722 Comments

There’s a tendency to give Amazon.com the benefit of the doubt whenever it looks to enter any new market…

Amazon looks to go after messaging with ‘Anytime’ stand-alone app and service

Monday, July 17, 2017 9:34 am12 Comments

Amazon’s materials claim: “Works everywhere. Chat seamlessly across desktop and mobile, iPhone or Android.”

Apple Cash: Cupertino in talks to finally launch money-transfer service

Thursday, April 27, 2017 12:02 pmThursday, April 27, 201714 Comments

Apple’s on-again, off-again flirtation with building its own money-transfer service…

Apple’s Messages’ blue bubble keeps me firmly on iPhone

Friday, April 21, 2017 9:58 am8 Comments

Samsung’s Galaxy S8, like all Android phones, lacks a tiny blue-bubbled wonder: iMessage…

Messages and five other apps Apple really needs to make for Android

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:18 amWednesday, March 15, 201722 Comments

Android and iOS may be destined to do battle forever, but when it comes to apps…

How stickers and apps work within iOS 10’s Messages

Friday, July 1, 2016 12:55 pmFriday, July 1, 20161 Comment

Developers can create apps that let you share content, edit photos, play games, send payments, and collaborate…

Beyond the flair: iOS 10 turns iMessage into a platform

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:55 pmWednesday, June 22, 20167 Comments

Apple’s big changes to Messages in iOS 10 seem mostly cosmetic: Giant emoji, full-screen fireworks, handwritten scrawls…

Why I remain unconvinced when Apple denies plans to introduce iMessage to Android

Friday, June 17, 2016 3:30 pmFriday, June 17, 201620 Comments

Apple’s improved iMessages system is a tent pole feature within iOS with implications across Apple Watch and the Mac…

Apple just supercharged the most important social network in your life

Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:56 amThursday, June 16, 20167 Comments

Family and friends on Android devices or Windows PCs will be missing out on the fun…

Why Apple’s holding back Messages for Android: Hardware sales

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 10:48 amWednesday, June 15, 201626 Comments

At WWDC on Monday, Apple again declined to extend its much-loved and much-used iMessage messaging system to Android…

Apple’s new iMessage is great, but why the hell isn’t it on Android, yet?

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:01 am17 Comments

Apple’s big messaging moves were among the biggest and most unexpected announcements…

Apple to deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC

Thursday, June 9, 2016 4:51 pmThursday, June 9, 201648 Comments

Apple will announce that iMessage encrypted text messaging is coming to Android users…

Why you shouldn’t install the Facebook app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:54 pmThursday, August 20, 201532 Comments

I recently created a Facebook account after a long absence from the social media service…

Messaging and the Apple Watch

Friday, June 26, 2015 5:30 pmFriday, June 26, 201513 Comments

Jonathan Ive’s team developed the Apple Watch to help solve the problem…

Ex-Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie looks to reinvent the phone call with ‘Talko’ iPhone app

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 1:01 pmTuesday, October 7, 201411 Comments

At one point, Ozzie wants to show me something on the app. We both pull out our iPhones…

How Steve Jobs would’ve introduced iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

Saturday, September 13, 2014 11:09 amSaturday, September 13, 201462 Comments

If you felt uneasy through Apple’s keynote…

iOS 8: Will Apple’s new Messages app confuse users?

Monday, July 14, 2014 2:28 pmMonday, July 14, 201420 Comments

Apple is taking a calculated risk with its iOS 8 software…

Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion

Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:29 amThursday, February 20, 201428 Comments

Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social network…

Mobile use grew 115% in 2013, spurred by messaging and social apps

Monday, January 13, 2014 4:04 pm1 Comment

For the past five years, we have watched mobile disrupt every industry…

Why Microsoft’s Skype still can’t compete with Apple’s iMessage

Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:25 am11 Comments

The one Microsoft platform that both needs native Skype integration..

Why Apple TV has nothing to fear from Microsoft’s Xbox One

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:15 pmTuesday, May 21, 2013106 Comments

Today Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One at its Redmond, Washington campus…

Mac users of iChat messaging could be burned by new AIM logging

Monday, January 9, 2012 12:01 pmMonday, January 9, 201215 Comments

As pointed out recently by the Electronic Frontier Foundation…

U.S. teens triple mobile data usage year-over-year

Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:14 pmThursday, December 15, 20115 Comments

Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption…

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