Sick of Facebook spying on your conversations, Apple pretending to care about security, Alexa employees laughing at the things you say, and Google collecting data from your email? The Librem One suite may be a good security defense for your smartphone.
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Google's new Chat app is not even out yet, and already being criticized for its approach and lack of encryption. Read more as to our take of why that is.
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Technically, Allo is not dead... just yet. But you may want to switch to Android Messages already, and get ready to forget all about archaic SMS technology.
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As Google starts distributing a bevy of improvements to its services in Brazil, Duo and Allo users worldwide are looking forward to some good news.
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Teamwork is something hard to corroborate in real life. Technology provides us with plenty of liberty to telecommute and telecommunicate with our colleagues. And a lot of those offices in those companies (some 28 out of the FORTUNE 100 companies, actually) use Slack to connect through conversations about projects and places for files associated with said projects. As an independent service, it only brings in a daily active user base of 4 million users.
Microsoft is keen on pushing cloud services these days, so you probably should’ve guessed that it was going to wield a sword over Slack. That sword is called Teams.
The service is available as a preview right now to those with Office 365 commercial subscriptions for all desktop and mobile platforms (including Windows 10 Mobile, Android and iOS) Microsoft serves and is meant to “bring together chat, meeting, notes, Office, Planner, PowerBI, and a host of extensions and applications” to let work be known and shown, according to CEO Satya Nadella.
The chat stuff seems pretty standard with threaded convos, all the image, photo, GIF and emoji libraries you need to be witty, options for voice and video and sharing direct views with Microsoft Office docs. From the groups, one-on-one or limited subgroup conversations can be parsed. Tabs keep track of what documents and applications are on the docket. Some third-party apps like Zendesk and Asana can be tabbed. Notifications as served by Exchange can also be served. Microsoft’s Bot Framework is also accessible to help with users’ needs.
Ins and outs of Teams are protected by multifactor authentication and all data is encrypted passing through the system. Security measures will be compliant with standards of the EU and the US government.
Once again, the Microsoft Teams Developer Preview is available in 181 countries and 18 languages right now to the 85 million Office 365 customers right now. An official release is due next quarter.
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Remember when iMessage might’ve been hot for Android this year? We did, too. And we didn’t forget about it. Apple might have decided against the idea of exporting what some might consider to be its most valuable user magnet because it would have driven customers away from valuable ...
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Our first taste of what the Google Assistant can do for us in our everyday lives is within the Google Allo messaging app that got released today. Now, you can get your undergarments scrunched up about all the chat apps that Google has floated out, but we’ll save the debate for another post.What got released today for both Android and iOS seems to be an attempt to become what
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Back in February, Facebook announced it was buying popular mobile messaging app, WhatsApp, for a whopping $19 billion. We later compared WhatsApp to Facebook’s in-house chat service, Facebook Messenger. We learned that, despite their core differences, they had a lot in common.But how does WhatsApp compare to, say, another popular mobile messaging service like Kik?WhatsApp is powered by your mobile number – ...
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Our smartphones offer us many ways to communicate with each other. We can send SMS messages to one another. We can use Facebook to chat. Twitter lets us send direct messages back and form. Google’s Hangouts offers us similar functionalities. On iOS there’s iMessage. And let’s not forget Skype, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, ChatOn, Kik, Snapchat, and who knows how many others.One could make the argument that there are simply too many ways with which we can communicate with one another. I wouldn’t argue against that. The bigger issues, however, are identification and ...
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