Facebook tests self-destructing messages With over 1.65 billion monthly active Facebook users and 800 million monthly active users on Facebook Messenger, the giant social network has announced it’s testing end-to-end encryption and message expiration for Messenger on mobile, branded as ‘Secret Conversations’. The messages will not be able to be read by anyone but the sender and the recipient. “We’ve heard from you that there […]
Introducing WhatApp’s Desktop App WhatsApp has launched another new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere with their desktop app. The new app links with your smartphone so that you can now message from your computer. Similarly to WhatsApp Web, the web browser version of WhatsApp, the desktop app is another extension of your phone. You can also get set up the same way, […]
EU Roaming Charges scrapped from June 2017 After an interim cap taking effect on April 30th 2016, data roaming charges will be fully banned from the 15th of June next year, after a final green light from the European Parliament. The aim of the roaming ban is to prevent UK mobile customers being caught out by huge bills when downloading films or other data during […]
Google’s Project Loon: Internet for everyone What is Project Loon? Although many of us view the internet as a global phenomenon, a whooping two-thirds of the world’s population are yet to have access. Project Loon is an initiative by Google designed to connect those in rural and remote areas to the internet, help fill coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters. How does […]
Snapchat adds Audio and Video calls in Chat 2.0 Snapchat has recently unveiled a huge update to it’s popular messaging app, ‘Chat 2.0’, giving apps such as FaceTime, Skype, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp some new competition. New functions include support for both Video and Audio Calls, allowing you to transition effortlessly between all communications mediums, whether that be text, voice or video. “We want Chat […]
5G will be the fifth generation of mobile network, and is expected to dramatically out-do the performance of the current 3G and 4G networks. “Ericsson predict that 5G’s latency will be around one millisecond – un-perceivable to a human and about 50 times faster than 4G.” 5G is expected to be capable of delivering extremely fast data with estimates between 10 – 50 Gbit/s compared […]