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You are not alone, WhatsApp is down for many

If you are wondering why your WhatsApp is down, don’t worry,  you are not alone the messaging service is down for many around the world. It appears the service went down at 2:04 PM ET. The users are reporting on Twitter that they are unable to connect, send or receive messages from their friends and families. According to DownDetector […]

WhatsApp to share user data including phone numbers with Facebook

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and from now own it will own users’ data as well — WhatsApp will now share users’ phone number with Facebook to ”fight spam, to offer ‘better friend suggestions [and] more relevant ads.’ In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp, leaving users in shock and uncertainty about the privacy of their chats based on the […]

Mattermost — The Open Source Slack Alternative You’ll Love

Short Bytes: Slack has exploded in popularity among a wide variety of teams for coordination and planning. It has especially become notable in infrastructure and information technology on both the development and operations sides. One of the biggest and most crucial aspects of working in a team is communication, and this is where Slack, and […]

Telegram App Hacked Again; Millions of Contacts Revealed

In June 2016 Iranian security researchers exposed a critical vulnerability in Telegram app allowing anyone to send over-sized anonymous messages to anyone. Now, Iranian hackers have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users, the largest known breach of the encrypted […]

Microsoft’s Word Flow Keyboard for iPhone Makes Texting Easy

This keyboard makes it easy for people to chat with just one hand — It’s only available in US-based iOS stores. Now that Windows Phone failed to leave a mark and Windows 10 Mobile isn’t going places, Microsoft‘s is now on a fierce mission to lead the race with iPhone by its apps. Microsoft’s came […]

WhatsApp Down on New Year’s Eve, Faced Outage WorldWide

The famous messaging service WhatsApp is down around the world with people complaining on Twitter how they can’t connect, send or receive messages from their friends and families. Users in UAE, India, Pakistan, Brazil, US and countries in Europe are reporting that the messaging service is down. A live outage map for all the regions […]

Brazilian Court Puts 48 Hours Ban on WhatsApp

A court in Brazil has ordered the mobile phone operators on Wednesday to block the WhatsApp messaging application throughout the country for 48 hours. A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, the Folha de S.Paulo […]

Facebook “Message Requests” Lets You Talk to People You’re Not Friends With

The most common problem you may face on social media platforms like Facebook is receiving unwanted messages from strangers. But, Facebook’s new feature will help you overcome this problem and will make it easier for you to identify the strangers and the people you already know. The new feature that Facebook will be rolling out over […]

Mobilize to socialize: Facebook Integrates WhatsApp into ‘Facebook for Android’

First look of WhatsApp’s Integration on Facebook for Android Finally Revealed. Fans have waited for more than a year to get the first glimpse of Facebook’s maiden integration with WhatsApp. Recently, we disclosed WhatsApp’s idea to integrate voice calls into the app’s features and now this is big news for the fans. After buying WhatsApp, Facebook […]

‘Unsend’ Your Text Messages With World’s Most Secured Messaging App

Congratulations people! The app that we had been waiting for the since a long time, has finally arrived.  Regretting a wrong message will soon be a thing of the past with this new messaging app. The wish to “unsend” a drunken message has come true. RakEM, the messaging app developed by New York-based Raketu, allows […]

WhatsApp Flaw leaves User Location Vulnerable to Hackers and Spies.

Researchers warn that the highly popular mobile application WhatsApp cannot be trusted blindly. WhatsApp has been one of the most popular mobile applications when it comes to exchanging messages for free. However, a group of budding security researchers at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, USA allege that WhatsApp could not be trusted with the user’s data. The […]