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Messages App to Drop OS X Lion Support When Beta Ends

Code strings from the Messages Beta application released by Apple this week suggest that users will require OS X Mountain Lion should they want to continue to use the service when the beta ends.Sifting trough the code that makes up Apple’s Messages application, Consomac discovered that the end of the beta trial...

18 February 2012
16:41 GMT

OS X Mountain Lion Features: Messages

By far one of the coolest new features in OS X 10.8 aka Mountain Lion, Messages is the iChat replacement that allows users to exchange free texts between Macs and iOS devices, complete with photos and videos. The app boasts standard IM-features as well, like the ability to see when your friends are typing a reply. A...

18 February 2012
16:10 GMT

Messages App Contains Mac Retina Display Hints

The most recent evidence of Retina display Macs comes straight from Apple’s Messages application where developers have discovered an "@2x" suffix that indicates planned support for higher-resolution graphics. The developer documentation for OS X Mountain Lion, which includes the Messages app, reveals that &ldq...

17 February 2012
14:11 GMT

Download the OS X Mountain Lion Messages App Today

Apple is offering a beta of the Messages application to be included in OS X Mountain Lion this summer, allowing Lion users to test out the app with their iOS friends. The developer preview of Mountain Lion released earlier today features the new Messages app which replaces iChat, currently found in Leopard, Snow Leo...

16 February 2012
10:08 GMT

2.1 Trillion Messages to Be Sent Next Year in Asia/Pacific

Mobile voice services and Short Messaging Services (SMSs) seem to be on an ascending trend nowadays, as SMSs are expected to reach a number of 1.9 trillion this year in Asia/Pacific and Japan. According to a recent report from Gartner Inc., there has been a 15.5-percent increase in SMSs since 2008 and the volume of m...

26 November 2009
08:49 GMT

New Alien-Searching Code Created

Over the years, numerous initiatives that sought to find alien civilizations have appeared around the world. These groups benefit from powerful telescopes and transmitters and constantly broadcast messages that contain our location into deep-space. But for a while, some voices have been arguing that the codes sent in...

24 November 2009
07:06 GMT

Teen Sends and Receives 20,000 Texts in a Month

Although it might sound incredible, 13-year-old Dena Christofferson recently reached this record, toped by the phone bill her father, Greg Christofferson of Cheyenne Wisconsin, received, which went up to as much as $4,756.25. Dena's father bought cellphones for his family recently, and opted for a data plan fro...

9 April 2009
06:23 GMT

US Lawmakers Seek to Destroy Spam

It would appear that someone from an advertising agency sent the wrong spam message to the wrong people. On Thursday, two US senators have decided to neutralize spam messages, describing them as a “nuisance to millions.” The bill will be entitled the m-SPAM Act of 2009, and is meant to drastically reduce ...

3 April 2009
09:05 GMT

Text Messaging Easily Ruins a Date

The popularity of cell phones has really taken off in the US since 2001, as SMS services have become readily available, and started to catch on to the general population. While at the time only 1 million messages were sent between mobile phones in America, now more than 75 billion are delivered every month in the cou...

13 February 2009
06:00 GMT

Ladies: How About A Bluetooth Vibrator?! No Hands...

Ladies, fasten your seat belts, close your mouth and check this out! The fellows from Gearlog have come across this nicely crafted high-tech vibrating item. The Houdini trick is the fact that when connected to any kind of Bluetooth-enabled phone, the phallic device sends its owner a pleasurable vibe with an "unlimit...

3 December 2007
15:21 GMT

Hold on to Your Inbox, GMail Losing Messages

If you're a Gmail user, listen up closely, this might come in handy: users all over are starting to complain on the respective support forums that they have lost all or part of their mail "one pretty morning". The moment they entered their Gmail account they were less than happy to see that the inbox was empty a...

15 November 2007
10:59 GMT


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