Messaging
Your Phone app’s messaging to get picture-in-picture support, and this is what the UI looks like
by Rahul
1 month
The purpose of Microsoft’s Your Phone app is to reduce the gap between a Windows PC and an Android phone and while the company needs to work more to achieve that goal, in the course of last few months, the app gained some se...
Despite success of Teams, Microsoft says they will continue to show Skype love
by Surur
2 months
Before the current coronavirus crisis, Skype appeared to be one of Microsoft’s numerous wasted investments. Purchased in October 2011 for $8.5 billion, the product has failed to keep up with messaging rivals and suffered fro...
Google adds new private messaging feature in Google Photos
by Pradeep
7 months
Google is introducing yet another messaging solution for its users. Google Photos is a great service for managing photos and it allows you to share photos with others through live albums, shared libraries, shared albums and more. ...
WhatsApp is adding self destructing messages pretty soon
8 months
WhatsApp is testing an auto-delete feature for messages. Much like competing apps Telegram and Snapchat, users will be able to set an expiration time for messages, ranging from an hour to a year. As per WABetainfo, you can use thi...
Google takes on iMessage with RCS-powered messaging experience for Android users
by Pradeep
8 months
Google today announced the availability of improved messaging experience for Android users in the US. Google is enabling chat features in the Android Messages app using the power of RCS (Rich Communication Services). With this imp...
US carriers are teaming up to turn your Android’s text messaging into iMessage
9 months
RCS was supposed to be next big thing for mobile messaging, next year, every year. Effectively, it turns regular boring old SMS into iMessage and WhatsApp style messaging. You get read receipts, online notifications, typing alerts...
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 receives plenty of new features in the latest update
by Rahul
10 months
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 received an update today. Taking the app to version 1.8.8., the update introduces several new features and no bug fixes. The update is now available in the Microsoft Store with the following cha...
Xbox app for Android and iOS updated with support for images and GIFs in messaging
by Pradeep
1 year
Microsoft yesterday released a new update for Xbox app for Android and iOS devices. This new update brings much improved messaging experience to Xbox gamers. With this update, you can view images and GIFs in messaging. Also, Micro...
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 updated with new features
by Rahul
1 year
Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 received an update today. Taking the app to version 1.7.9, the update introduces several new features and performance improvements and bug fixes. The update is now available in the Microsoft Sto...