One of the features I miss most from my days as a BlackBerry user is BBM, the messaging service. If Boy Genius Report’s sources are correct though, Android users and iOS users could be messaging cross-platform. There goes your reason to cling onto your BlackBerry. More »
Valentine’s day is right around the corner. Whatever you do, don’t download the K-Y Yours + Mine app for iOS. If you do, you’ll be single before you can say “oops!” More »
If you find you send a lot of SMS messages asking “Where are you?” you might want to check out Kooee, an Aussie-made app built around making the act of sharing location information as easy as possible. More »
Kik, the got-very-popular-very-fast cross-platform messaging app, was booted from BlackBerry’s App World because of a breach of “contractual obligations,” presumably breaching an obligation not to drive people away from BBM, RIM’s own messaging platform which they hold near and dear to their hearts. More »
Meebo, the king of iPhone messaging apps, just got a new update bringing fast app-switching and support for the iPhone 4′s Retina Display. And it’s still free! So go chat with someone already. [iTunes]
A survey of Chinese youths has found that 83 per cent of them have struggled to remember the precise format of their language’s characters when writing, old-school style, with a pen or pencil. Computers and phones are to blame. More »
Turns out it’s not just modern youths that can’t be bothered writing out their words properly in communications – text speak was being used by lazy Victorian poets more than 100 years ago. 4 real. More »
