You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...
Apple has just sent out an email to notify customers the Messages Beta program will end on December 14th. They encourage any customers who want to continue to use Messages for OS X to upgrade to Mountain Lion via the Mac App Store. Messages allows Mac users to send and receive messages to any other...
Apple's iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won't show up as "Delivered" and just hang. During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what's...
Yesterday morning the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) updated their stats on the number of text messages sent by Canadians in 2012 Q2. This time around you sent 23.8 billion texts which eclipsed the numbers from 2012 Q1 (23 billion). Here are the highlights of their stats: More than 8 billion person-to-person text messages were sent...
Looks like Apple's iMessage is down for the count, as noted by numerous users. Messages look like they are about to finish sending, but they don't completely go through. Our own experience trying to send iMessages on our Mac gives us a message that particular users "aren't registered with iMessage" (which isn't true): The last...
In a blog post published in the early morning, iOS security researcher which we have all known as pod2g noted he had come across a 'severe' SMS spoofing exploit on the iPhone: I mentioned it on twitter a few days ago, I found a flaw in iOS that I consider to be severe, while it...
Yesterday Gizmodo posted a story that claimed iMessage suffered a major bug, and allowed them to 'spy' on a total stranger. They posted images, text messages and other revealing information about the individual, an Apple Genius. What happened was the Genius plugged his SIM card into that of a customer's phone to troubleshoot a problem....
"Chat Your Way, ChatON!" This is what Samsung is calling its latest venture to compete with Apple's iMessage and frankly speaking, its not a bad attempt. ChatON is a cross platform instant messaging app (available on the US App Store) which allows users of iOS, Android, Bada and Samsung Feature to communicate with each other for free....
With the release of iOS 5 in October, iMessage enabled all iOS devices to communicate with each other. Moreover, it allowed all users on iOS 5 to send texts and pictures to each other for free (data required). I can't emphasize how incredible iMessage is when you're traveling outside of Canada. Sending messages back home...
WhatsApp, one of my favourite cross-platform messaging apps for the iPhone has achieved a significant milestone--over 1 billion messages sent in ONE day. Just how much is 1 billion messages? That is 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a minute, and 11,574 messages a second. That is a significant milestone, and is not hard to...
iMessage on OS X Lion is back in the news. We had previously reported that iMessage might be integrated into the Mac OS iChat application based on strings of code found in Lion’s iChat. However a report from last night indicates that the decision to integrate iMessage into iChat or create a standalone client not been finalized. Both are reported possibilities that are...
Just last week, we published a report suggesting iMessage integration into Mac OS X Lion’s iChat is already in the works as indicated by some unusual strings discovered in Lion’s iChat framework. Now, another report regarding iMessage support across all Apple operating systems comes from 9to5Mac (via Fusible) which uncovers a "set of three trademarks (1, 2 and 3)" all related to iMessage that have...
