messenger

So You’re Afraid of Facebook Messenger Privacy? Look at these other app permissions…

Facebook has come under some intense scrutiny this past week with their drive to move their messaging component out of the main Facebook app. While I’m a firm believer that users should know what they’re getting into when they install apps, for many geeks such as myself it’s been clear all along that this recent…

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BlackBerry Messenger for iOS Still Pending Approval

Senior Strategic Account Manager of BlackBerry, Alex Kinsella, took to twitter to advise the public that the iOS version of BlackBerry Messenger was submitted to Apple weeks ago. Just in case we forgot to mention, BBM for iPhone was submitted for review 2 wks ago. #waiting #BBM4ALL — Alex Kinsella (@alexkinsella) September 6, 2013 In…

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WhatsApp updates iPhone app to subscription model

For years one of the premiere smartphone instant messaging apps has been WhatsApp Messenger. Before iMessage was developed, many iPhone users regularly used WhatsApp as their primary messaging platform in order to avoid using text/multimedia messages. While over the years WhatsApp has been a variety of prices, generally the iPhone price has been set at…

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