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Tag: Social messengers

WhatsApp restricts forwarded messages to 5 recipients

January 24, 2019

In a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors”, WhatsApp has announced that it will now restrict users to fowarding messages to only 5 people,…

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WhatsApp extends support for BlackBerry and Symbian OS till 30 June 2017

December 5, 2016

  You have a little more time to use the WhatsApp app on BlackBerry OS and Nokia S40 or Symbian 60 unlike their statement…

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WhatsApp announces video calling on iOS, Android and Windows phones

November 15, 2016

WhatsApp video calling was enabled in the beta version of the app but today the Facebook-owned platform will activate for all users on iOS,…

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WhatsApp has some new camera features

October 5, 2016

WhatsApp has announced changes to the way we share pictures with the people we chat with, allowing users to write or draw on pictures…

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Snapchat has Spectacles to go with it worth K1300

September 27, 2016

Snapchat announced that it has changed its name to Snap Inc to give it some room to develop other products than a messenger, has now…

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WhatsApp may temporarily ban you for these reasons

September 20, 2016

  WhatsApp has just updated its Terms & Conditions, to include the fact that it is owned by Facebook, that it has made new…

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WhatsApp desktop app launched for Windows and Mac

May 11, 2016

There has a been a web client for WhatsApp that users could sync with their mobile app by scanning a bar code on their…

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Viber launches full end-to-end Encryption and ‘Hidden Chats’

April 19, 2016

Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps with more than 711 million unique users worldwide, today announces complete end-to-end encryption across all devices…

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Skype has rolled out group video calling for phones and tablets

February 19, 2016

Skype has announced in a blog that it has started the roll-out of group video calling to iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets in Western Europe…

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WeChat launched WeChat Out for cheaper calls to mobile and landlines globally

January 6, 2016

WeChat has launched a new feature on its app called WeChat Out that allows users make calls to mobile and landline numbers around the…

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Are you ‘Appdicted’? An insight into social media culture in Zambia

October 22, 2015

Phones were initially created for communication, but the evolution of technology and more social media apps, has seen them evolve into gadgets that serve most of…

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2 reasons why your Skype call quality may be poor

October 19, 2015

Most Skype users complain about bad feedback or low quality or dropped calls when using the application and now Skype has come forward to…

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BBM’s Material design for Android released

July 8, 2015

It’s been a while since BlackBerry made their social messenger, BBM, open to Android, Windows and iOS operating systems and ever since then they’ve…

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What Social Media Day is

June 30, 2015

In 2010, Mashable, who write about everything really, created Social Media Day to fall every year on 30th June as a way to bring…

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WhatsApp introduces voice calling (VoIP) on Windows phones

June 24, 2015

Source: Tech News Today Finally Windows phone owners can make voice calls on WhatsApp, after it had already slowed rolled out the extra feature…

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Whatsapp Voice Calls Now Available To All, Forget Invites

March 31, 2015

Last week we told you Whatsapp had made its voice call feature open to some users and others could get it too by receiving…

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Whatsapp Bans Users Using Third Party App

January 21, 2015

Your need to chat may have led you to download a third party Whatsapp app like Whatsapp Plus but now users around the world…

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Stickers now Available for Facebook Comments, Group Chats and Event Posts

October 14, 2014

Previously you could only use stickers  on Facebook in the Messenger app but Facebook yesterday rolled them out to comments, groups, and event comments…

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Phone Calls: Age of Extinction

September 18, 2014

When did you last make a phone call? With airtime, not free minutes? For how long? What was the call about? With the rise…

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