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Tag Archives: Instant messaging

21Sep/20

Trust Payments partners with Wakanda Messenger to empower Africans around the world

September 21, 2020FinanceComputing, Facebook Messenger, Freeware, Instant messaging, Instant messaging clients, IPhone, Kik Messenger, Operating systems, social media, Software, Truphone, Wakandasmbale

Trust Payments, the global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies, has partnered with social network, messaging and e-commerce startup Wakanda Messenger to provide the payments element for their online marketplace and money remittance service. Wakanda Messenger, developed by Kemit Kingdom, will be widely available on iPhone and Android from 15 October 2020. It has already launched its Beta app in Africa and Europe to a selected audience of 20,000 trial users. Read more

07Aug/17

Chinese robots taken down after rogue outburst

August 7, 2017InternetAnita Li, Asia, Chatbot, China, Chinese Communist Party, Companies, Countries, Country: China, East Asia, Fiction, Government of China, Instant messaging, Internet bot, Jinping, Natural language parsing, Robot, Rogue, Technology/Internet, Tencent, United States, Worldsmbale

China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users’ questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it wasn’t a huge fan of Chinese Communist Party. Grace Lee reports. Continue reading →

17Mar/17

Texting your smart home appliances

March 17, 2017InternetAmazon, Computing, Cross-platform software, GE Appliances, Google, Google Allo, Home appliance, Human geography, Instant messaging, Instant messaging clients, Kamsinah, Major appliance, Online chat, Operating systems, Political geography, Sara Hemrajani, Singapore, social media, Software, Technology/Internet, Text messaging, Toby Ruckert, Unified Inbox, WhatsApp, Worldsmbale

A Singapore firm working with the big tech companies and manufacturers has come up with a service that allows people to text their household appliances. Sara Hemrajani reports. Continue reading →

10Jan/17

Snapchat picks London despite Brexit

January 10, 2017InternetCalifornia, City: London, Computing, Dublin, Facebook, Instant messaging, Ireland, London, Luxembourg, Messaging apps, Mobile applications, Photo sharing, Rosanna Philpott, Snap Inc., Snapchat, social media, Social networking services, Software, Technology, Technology/Internet, United Kingdom, Vertical video, World Wide Websmbale

Messaging app Snapchat says it will make London the home of its international operations, delivering another vote of confidence in Britain’s tech standing as the country prepares to leave the European Union. Rosanna Philpott reports. Continue reading →

15Nov/16

Snapchat release sunglasses that record video

November 15, 2016InternetAngle of view, Cameras, Computing, Instant messaging, Messaging apps, Science and technology, Snap Inc., Snapchat, Spectacles, Sunglasses, Technologysmbale

Messaging app Snapchat plans to release sunglasses that record video later this fall. Snapchat Spectacles include a camera with a 115-degree-angle lens, the Verge reported.
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11Feb/16

UNDP Announces the Climate Action Hackathon in Zambia

February 11, 2016EnvironmentAlert messaging, Animal ecology, Articles, Bonizella Biagini, Brown Institute, City: Livingstone, Climate change, Climate change adaptation, Climate history, Columbia University, Company: ThomsonReuters, Continent: Africa, Country: Zambia, David Brown, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global warming, Hackathon, Helen Gurley Brown, Instant messaging, LIVINGSTONE, Natural environment, Nature, Online chat, Plant ecology, Stanford University, travel scholarships, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Development Programme, Videotelephony, Weather warning, Zambiasmbale

Up to 25 Full Travel Scholarships Will Provide Software and Application Developers with the Opportunity to Create Innovative Climate Information and Early Weather Alert Messaging Apps
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25Mar/15

Facebook expands messaging service features

March 25, 2015MobileCEO, Computing, Criticism of Facebook, Facebook, Facebook features, FACEBOOK INC., Freeware, GOOGLE INC., Instant messaging, Mark Zuckerberg, Messaging apps, messenger, Operating systems, San Francisco, Snapchat, social media, social media network, Software, Technology/Internet, TWITTER INC., United States, Universal Windows Platform apps, Videotelephony, Web 2.0, Windows Live Messenger, World Wide Websmbale

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new features allowing developers to create apps for the Facebook messenger application as well as a way to communicate directly with businesses through Facebook messenger.

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