Popular multi-platform, multi-IM chat app, Nimbuzz, is wondering down a new road today with the announcement of their “Chat Buddy Developers Program”. The program, combined with the opening of Nimbuzz’s messenger API, is a move by the company to better cater to 3rd party companies and help them gain access to a claimed 90+ million Nimbuzz users. A few of the companies whom Nimbuzz has already worked with include Twitter (tweeting within Nimbuzz),...
Popular multi-account IM app IM+ recently received a major update on iOS. We’ve looked at IM+ before on Android (Pro) and the free version on iOS many months back. Today, however, IM+ gets a healthy kick in the pants with several new features. Contact list search Photo and sound files sending Multi-accounts for Facebook User interface improvements Customizable chat font size IM+ auto launch upon Android device starting Emoticons disabling Chinese...
RIM may not have the same “cool” image that Apple Co. does, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t buying up the latest tablet to hit the market. According to Jefferies & Co analyst, Peter Misek, RIM managed to move a solid 45,000 PlayBook tablets on launch day through Best Buy and Staples alone! For the record, that’s quite a bit more than Motorola’s XOOM tablet powered by Android 3.0. Thus far reviews have unanimously rated the...
Besides a differentiating coat of paint, multi-account IM clients aren’t all that different these days. A small feature here or there are the only deciding factors left for feature hounds to stew over. But a few times a year we as consumers are treated to major revisions which bring about massive UI changes and/or new features. Shape Services recently released IM+ 4.0 for Android. With it comes a thoroughly revamped UI and promises of faster, more intuitive...
One of RIM’s staple services, BlackBerry Messenger, has a rather substantial update in the making. The image above shows what is claimed to be BBM 6.1′s new interface which includes more customization options and all new icons. To some it may not seem like much. But to BlackBerry fanatics who’ve been looking at the same aging pixels since BBM 5.0 was released last year, it’s more than welcome. Via: ...
