Mobile security research firm, Check Point, has revealed a new bug in the popular cross platform messaging service, WhatsApp. The bug that appears to affect only WhatsApp Web has the potential to allow ransomware and malicious applications on your device. Continue reading “Bug in WhatsApp Web could potentially affect 200 million users”
Google is making it easier to send an instant message without actually typing them on your mobile device. The latest Google Now update will allow users to dictate messages through a number of third-party messaging apps including WhatsApp, Viber, NextPlus, Telegram and WeChat.
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WhatsApp for Android has been updated with a bunch of important and much needed features. The latest update brings custom notifications, mark as unread and others to the Android app.
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Google Hangouts joins the elite club of apps that has crossed 1 Billion downloads on the Play Store. Till today, there have been ten apps that have crossed the milestone out of which 3 of them were Facebook apps while the other 7 were Google’s own apps.
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WhatsApp for Android has added a new word search feature that lets you search through all your conversations with just a keyword. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets new app-wide search feature”
Back in March, WhatApp started rolling out voice calling functionality to Android users. The company updated their iOS application next to bring the much awaited feature to the vast number of users of Apple’s hardware. Today, the company is finally bringing voice calling to WhatsApp users on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. Continue reading “WhatsApp voice calling now available on Windows Phone”
WhatsApp failed to compete with other tech companies and lagged behind last when it comes to protecting user data from government requests, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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David Marcus who is the VP of product Messaging at Facebook has posted a photo on Facebook that shows that the Messenger app for Android devices has crossed 1 billion downloads.
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WhatsApp recently made the new Material Design update for its app live on the Play Store. Now it has introduced a new Beta version of the app – v2.12.87 that goes another step ahead and replaces any remaining Holo aspects of the UI with Material Design elements. It brings about a few other changes as well.
Axis bank is the now going social and making it easy for users to transfer money to their loved ones on the go. The third largest bank in India will now allow its customers to send money through several platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, email and SMS, through mobile-based application Ping Pay.
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People who use Whatsapp on their iPhones will be delighted to know that an update has just been released that adds calling functionality over Whatsapp. The update also brings in several other improvements.
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Recently we told you about WhatsApp’s latest update version 2.12.38 for Android that finally got the much-awaited Material Design along. Now you will soon see another update from WhatsApp Inc that will bring an option to backup your WhatsApp chats to your Google Drive. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets new Google Drive chat backup option”
Facebook announced the WhatsApp acquisition in February last year that finally completed in October for $22 billion. Now the social network its testing WhatsApp integration for its Android app, as per a latest report from Geektime.
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WhatsApp is looking forward to bringing a simpler way for its more than 700 million users to save their chat history. The popular mobile messaging app could bring Google Drive integration to restore you conversations.
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WhatsApp has already started rolling out voice calling feature on Android. Now from a couple of leaked screenshots it looks like the feature will soon come to iPhone.
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