TUAW reports: A report from independent analyst Chetan Sharma suggests text messaging is on the decline in the US. Results from his report published on Monday show that the number of text messages sent each month by wireless customers has fallen. In the third quarter of 2012, mobile phone owners in the US sent 678 texts per […]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 16, 2012
Comments Off on Apple releases public beta of new Messages app for OS X Mountain Lion
There’s a lot of OS X Mountain Lion news today, including the public beta release of Apple’s new Messages app for OS X. Positioned to replace iChat, Messages for OS X will integrate iChat and FaceTime functionality under one roof, while also being able to communicate with the Messages app for the iPhone and iPod […]
Continue reading...Monday, February 6, 2012
Comments Off on Apple compensates victim of iMessage bug
The Next Web reports: Over the past couple of months there has been mounting evidence of an issue with Apple’s iMessage service that causes messages to continue being sent to a stolen device even after its SIM has been deactivated. Now, we have received information that, at least in one case, Apple is compensating a […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Comments Off on Evidence points to iMessage/iChat integration
New evidence suggesting that Apple is planning to integrate its upcoming iMessage service with iChat, Apple’s trusty and underutilized desktop-based chat application.
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Comments Off on Apple’s iMessage might put a fork in RIM
Hats of to This Is My Next who were able to scoop Apple’s iMessage service a few hours before Scott Forstall announced it during yesterday’s WWDC keynote. iMessage is essentially a RIM killer in the sense that it’s BBM for the iPhone. And so, in one fell swoop, one of RIM’s selling points has been […]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Comments Off on Test Messages on the decline thanks to iMessage