With the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, it's possible to delete embarrassing messages within seven minutes of their sending.
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Advertising that was only shown to Australian and Thai Facebook Messenger users is now spreading around the world. No, not to your lock screen.
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Both figuratively and (almost) literally, it seems the whole world is on Facebook these days. 2 billion people a month, every month, to be exact.
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You can now collaborate on a Spotify playlist through a new Facebook Messenger extension. More jams for D&D, parties and group runs.
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Finally, fi-na-lly, Facebook comments on your mobile device and desktop, Android, iOS and Windows, are fully GIFable.
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Frames, effects, stickers, easy photo and video sharing, all available for just 24 hours. This Facebook Messenger Day thing sure sounds familiar.
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Are you still bitter about Facebook Messenger being its own, bloated, starchy app? Feel like sacrificing your high-end phone and your first world living to at least get a Messenger app that’s less packed, less convenient and more minimalistic?Facebook Messenger Lite is just for you! In addition to the Marketplace that it introduced today, the company ...
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Google Assistant is expected to be launched next month and feature intelligent and convenient reservation-making and instant payments. Facebook, which has been working on its own bot-based ecosystem through its Messenger Platform, has launched version 1.2 of that platform.It will allow
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It took less than a month for Facebook to integrate Apple’s new interaction medium, 3D Touch, into its iOS app. It has taken Menlo Park ten months to do the same for its Messenger app.You can now give a hard tap to contact icons for a quick peek at their digits, screennames and addresses. You can also preview conversations, enlarged photos ...
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Smartphone users today have more opportunities to try out in-development software than ever before. From Apple’s public iOS betas, to Android’s developer preview for Nexus hardware, to the Microsoft Insider program, users who aren’t afraid of dealing with a few rough edges can check out the latest software well in advance of any wide release. Sometimes the inevitable beta bugs are minor, and while the user experience may be a little wonky, everything’s ultimately still functional. ...
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In was back in the early days of the summer of 2014 when we were first introduced to Google’s new look for Android, as the company unveiled the Material Design style that would define the look that made Lollipop and Marshmallow what they are. With a clean, bold layout and tasteful use of transitions and shadows, the Material Design language worked its way through Google’s
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The world’s largest social network continues to compete against itself as far as instant messaging services are concerned, with both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger constantly improved and boosting their popularity edge over Skype, ...
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The smartwatch app ecosystem is currently in an uncertain stage. How much functionality you can get off of a screen with a diameter of less than two inches can be seen as a challenge to pursue or a limitation to work around. If you have the YouTube app for Android Wear, you know which train of thought you’re on.But now, if your milieu puts you in need of Facebook Messenger while your phone’s out of reach, don’t worry. If you have an
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It seems the space race of tech giants has been to create a virtual assistant of their own. Apple started it off with Siri, Google followed up without much hesitation with Google Now, Microsoft then released Cortana… and now it seems like Facebook is about to get into the game (oh, and let’s not forget SoundHound’s Hound app – which we found to be pretty useful in our testing). According to a report out of The Information today, a virtual assistant codenamed Facebook Moneypenny right ...
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