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Messaging app Telegram has announced that the app has been used by 200 million people in the past month. As a result, the number of users has doubled in the past two years.Telegram founder Pavel Durov has revealed the user count on…

Russia's highest court has ruled against Telegram in a case against Russian intelligence agency FSB. The chat service must therefore comply with the order to allow access to messages.Now that the Supreme Court has dismissed Telegram's…

Google's Area 120 team, which works on experimental apps, has made a beta of Reply available to testers. The app can send automatic replies or generate responses within popular chat apps such as WhatsApp and Slack.The existence of the…

A bug allows a special Indian character character to crash Messages on both iOS 11 and macOS. The bug also affects watchOS and some third-party communication apps such as WhatsApp.The bug crashes at least Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook…

Samsung has released the Android 8.0 update for the Galaxy S8 and S8+. The people who are in the beta program will get the update first. It is not yet clear when it will appear for users who did not participate.The version number of the…

The Telegram app and variant Telegram X have disappeared from the Apple App Store. Founder Pavel Durov says it's because of a "minor problem" and the apps should be back soon. It's not clear what the problem is.The disappearance of…

Chatapp Telegram has released a faster version of its own app under a different name. Telegram bought the unofficial client Challegram and recently renamed it Telegram X. There was already an app with that name on iOS.Telegram renamed…

In Iran, the use of the Tor network has increased significantly. According to The Tor Project, these are users who connect directly to the network. The increase is probably related to the protests against the Iranian government.According…

Franz is a messaging app, that combines all popular chat & messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype, Zendesk and…

Google's security team has identified spyware that it has named Tizi. This is mainly active in African countries and steals data from Android devices, for example from apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook.The malware takes advantage of a…