If you are on Telus-owned Public Mobile and you’re having issues with Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime on the iPhone, the company announced on Tuesday afternoon that a fix is coming. "We are aware that some of you are currently unable to successfully use iMessage and or FaceTime features, and we understand how frustrating this can...
Apple’s iMessage security is getting a new encryption system named PQ3, aimed at countering potential future threats posed by advanced quantum computing. This was revealed yesterday, when iOS 17.4 beta 4 and more were released to developers, reports Bloomberg. Quantum computers with their advanced computing power can potentially decrypt today's encryption methods used for securing...
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that Apple's iMessage, along with Microsoft's Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising service, will not be subject to the tough new rules of the European Union, aimed at limiting the power of big tech companies. The investigation concluded that these services do not have a dominant market...
It turns out those that chose to use an unauthorized workaround to get iMessage to working with Android users has been a disaster. Apple has restricted access to its messaging service for users of Beeper, a third-party application designed to bridge the company's iMessage with Android devices. The decision, which has affected both Android phones...
At the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a team of cybersecurity experts, including Boris Larin from Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky, Leonid Bezvershenko, and Georgy Kucherin, disclosed a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, exploited through iMessage. This presentation, titled "Operation Triangulation," marked the first public revelation of these vulnerabilities and their exploitation methods....
The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawyers met with representatives of the Android iMessage app Beeper Mini on December 12, as part of an ongoing investigation into Apple's alleged anticompetitive behaviour. That’s according to sources speaking with the New York Times. This four-year-old probe is gaining momentum, with Canadian Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of Beeper, the parent...
Beeper Mini, which lets Android users chat with Apple’s iMessage on iPhone, is back with an updated version after facing technical issues. The app, which had a successful launch, reaching the top 20 of the Play Store charts, encountered problems on Friday, leading to a temporary inability for users to send or receive messages. Canadian...
It really was too good to be true—an unofficial Android app that allowed messaging with Apple iMessage users, using Apple's own protocols. While the effort from the Android Beeper Mini app should be applauded, as it utilized Apple’s own push notification protocol to work, Apple has put a stop to the app altogether. Confirmation comes...
Beeper Mini, a third party app designed to enable easy iMessage functionality for Android users, encountered significant technical difficulties shortly after its launch. Within a week of its debut, users began reporting issues with sending and receiving iMessage's distinctive blue bubble messages. The problems escalated throughout the day, with numerous complaints surfacing on the Beeper...
Google, alongside major European telecom operators, has urged the European Commission to mandate Apple's iMessage to comply with the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), potentially reshaping the messaging app landscape in the European Union. The Financial Times has obtained a letter addressed to the Commission, where a Google senior vice-president and the CEOs of Vodafone,...
