Google completes global rollout of RCS for Android
After a decade of false starts Rich Communications Service has hit the mainstream with Google making it available to all Android users.
After a decade of false starts Rich Communications Service has hit the mainstream with Google making it available to all Android users.
The latest version of the operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones has been unveiled.
WhatsApp and Telegram are reportedly refusing any requests for user data from the Hong Kong authorities because they can’t be confident they won’t be misused.
French police managed to penetrate a super-secure smartphone platform and catch loads of baddies, but what does this mean for the rest of us?
Every UK mobile subscriber should receive a text message from the government today, telling them to stay at home and linking to the new restrictions.
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.
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