Google undermines US carrier RCS initiative by launching its own
Less than a month after the four US MNOs announced a joint RCS initiative for Android, Google has decided to launch its own.
Less than a month after the four US MNOs announced a joint RCS initiative for Android, Google has decided to launch its own.
The Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative will use Synchronoss tech in its attempt to make RCS into a useful mainstream alternative to SMS and OTT messaging services.
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon have created the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to push the Rich Communications Service standard on Android.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is reportedly to sign a transatlantic agreement offering the UK Government more clout over the stubborn messaging platforms.
Facebook has been promising some sort of payments solution for WhatsApp, and it seems to be making a bit of progress in Indonesia.
GCHQ’s new proposal to supposedly increase the security and police force’s ability to keep us safe has been slammed by the technology industry, suggesting the argument contradicts itself.
After providing call filtering features for free, Verizon is going to update its commercial messaging platform to better protect customers.
Google has finally called it a day on Allo, its attempt to compete with WhatsApp, to focus on its Messages product.
Considering the size of the fish which are circling Facebook, you have to wonder whether a group harbouring such unrealistic demands will even register on the social media giants radar.
Amazon has written to Signal threatening to kick the secure messaging app off its CloudFront web service unless it stops anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting.
After years of trying (and failing) to create its own messaging platform to compete with the OTTs, Google has herded together Android device manufacturers to create a new carrier-based service: Chat.
France is reportedly considering building its own encrypted messaging platform to protect itself from espionage, completing the full U-turn from last year’s efforts to limit the encryption powers of messaging services.
Blackberry is taking Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to court for patent infringement relating to messaging apps. We wonder if Blackberry has just given up on tech in favour of a litigious business model.
WhatsApp has launched a business version of the popular messaging app, just to make sure businesses don’t actually have to talk to those pesky customers face-to-face.
Facebook-owned IM service WhatsApp reckons it might finally be able to make some money by charging businesses for clever access to their punters.
We’ve often said we’re not too sure what the point of Snapchat is, maybe we’re too old, but they must be doing something right as Microsoft has become the latest tech giant to introduce copycat features.
In a bid to differentiate its new consumer 4G service Virgin Media is flirting with the net neutrality debate by zero-rating WhatsApp and Messenger.
Google has launched a number of new India-specific products and features apparently designed to ingratiate the internet behemoth to the lucrative emerging market.
Social media giant Facebook kicked-off its f8 developer conference with a major messaging push as well as a renewed focus on virtual reality.
Oracle has noted a massive, network health-threatening increase in LTE diameter signalling traffic, as communications service providers (CSPs) invent new ways to satisfy the appetites of their data hungry subscribers.
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