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Apple’s iCloud and iMessage services suffered a widespread outage today in which many users were unable to send or receive messages on iOS or use the various iCloud features. Users have been reporting all day that they couldn’t access either iCloud or iMessage. When trying to log in to services via iCloud.com, a “Connection Error”…
Swype is going to get a whole lot better. The wildly popular text input interface is getting updated with technology borrowed from its parent company Nuance Communications. For those of you who don’t know what Nuance does, the company is a leader in voice recognition software and voice input. The new update will make the…
Since iMessage first came out as a feature in iOS 5, a few people reported having trouble with using it. Specifically, when they send a message, they get a confirmation that it was delivered when in fact it wasn’t. Since the release of Messages beta, a Mac app coming in stable form with OS X…
Ah yes, the classic tale of a seemingly innocent wireless carrier customer doing seemingly innocent things with the network, only to find that he or she is slammed with an unbelievably expensive or lengthy phone bill. Ryan Dunsmore, a 16-year-old from Canada, recently got hooked up with a $35 per month Rogers unlimited texting plan…
Valentine’s Day is coming to an end and so is T-Mobile’s Facebook poll which asks people how they are sending sweet nothings to their loved one on this day. Not surprisingly, more than half of the poll’s 10,000+ respondents used text messaging to proclaim their undying love. Another thousand or so made a phone call and actually…
If you know anything about teens today, you know that they text … a lot. Many of them abhor phone calls and even think that e-mails are old-fashioned when compared to texts or instant messaging, so OnlineSchools put together a neat infographic which helps you put into perspective just how much these young’ins text. Some…
According to a report in Forbes, text messaging rates in pioneer texting markets like Finland and Hong Kong are on the decline. Christmas Eve text messaging, one of the biggest days for sending messages on Finnish carrier Sonera, dropped from 10.9 million in 2010 to 8.5 million in 2011. A similar 14% decline was observed…
Yahoo is jumping into the group-messaging game with an Android app called Hub and this will go head-to-head with Facebook Messenger and GroupMe to be the place you go to communicate with your friends on the go. I downloaded the Yahoo Hub group messaging app and it has a very non-intrusive, minimalist look and feel.…
In the sad/brilliant department, FakeGirlfriend.com has just unveiled a web service which will let you receive texts and calls from a fake girlfriend to impress all your friends who are probably totally cool and get laid all the time and stuff. It’s built off the Twilio backend, which makes it simple for app developers of…
AT&T announced new messaging plans that support international users. If you’re a big traveler, the benefits of paying for one of these monthly plans is the considerable savings. Previously, to send a single text message from one country to another, AT&T charged $0.50. If it included multimedia, it was a whole $1.30 – not cost-effective.…