WhatsApp is testing Facebook-like coloured text status feature

WhatsApp status updates

WhatsApp could soon get Facebook-like color text status feature. The popular messaging app is currently testing the feature that will allow users to write their status update with a colourful background. This development was first spotted by Android Police.  Continue reading “WhatsApp is testing Facebook-like coloured text status feature”

50% of comments on Instagram are emojis: Study

We all know that emojis have become the new language of this digital world. A new study by Thomas Dimson, a software engineer behind Instagram’s Hyperlapse app has revealed that nearly half of the text on Instagram contain emojis.

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Nuance to acquire Swype

Sources with knowledge of the deal report that Nuance , the company behind technologies like the ubiquitous T9 input , has acquired Seattle based Swype. Swype is  one of the most innovative text entry solutions to have appeared in the past few years facilitating text entry speeds capable of competing with hardware keyboards on touchscreen only devices.

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