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Beeper Takes Down Beeper Mini App From Google Play Store After iMessage Saga: Report
Beeper Mini has been involved in a long-running saga of promising to facilitate iMessage to Android users, getting blocked by Apple, and finding repeated workarounds to make the service work. The messaging platform seems to be running out of options now, as the Beeper Mini app has reportedly been removed from Google Play Store.
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Beeper Says Its Efforts to Bring iMessage to Android Is ‘Unsustainable’ After Providing Jailbroken iPhone Fix
Beeper, the messaging platform that has fought hard to bring Apple’s iMessage to Android phones, seems to have released a final update for its service. After multiple attempts at making iMessage work on Android devices reliably, with workarounds that involved users accessing a Mac, Beeper has said its efforts to bring the popular messaging servic...
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Beeper Mini Brings iMessage Support to Android Phones, Works Without Apple ID: How It Works
Beeper Mini was launched on Tuesday as a new messaging app bringing iMessage to Android smartphones. The new app from Beeper seems to avoid most of those privacy issues as it works locally on a user's smartphones and can even function without an Apple ID, according to the company.
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WhatsApp Chat History and Media Backups on Android Will Soon Take Up Space on Google Account Storage
WhatsApp chat history and media backups for Android users are stored separately from their Google account cloud storage. With backups of the popular instant messaging app not taking up space on Google accounts, Android users have had the benefit of additional cloud storage space available for their photos, videos, emails and other files. That is go...
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How to Transfer WhatsApp Chat History on Android or iOS Using QR Code
Meta has made it easier for WhatsApp users to transfer their chat from an old phone to a new phone without use of any backup or cloud services. WhatsApp now allows Android as well as iOS users to transfer their chat history, along with media attachments, between phones running the same OS. Here's the process to transfer WhatsApp chat history on And...
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WhatsApp May Let You Export Chat Backups From Google Drive in Future
WhatsApp is found to be working on an option to let users export their chat backups stored on Google Drive. Separately, the messaging app owned by Facebook parent Meta has been spotted testing the ability to let its business users view the information of the device from where a message has been sent through their accounts.
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WhatsApp Starts Rolling Out End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups for Android, iOS Users Worldwide
WhatsApp on Thursday started rolling out end-to-end encryption for backups stored on Google Drive and iCloud. The update was announced last month and is now rolling out to Android and iOS users globally.
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Slack Rolls Out Clips Feature That Allows Users to Record and Send Short Video, Audio Messages
Slack is rolling out a video and audio messaging tool that lets users send short recordings to their colleagues on the platform. Along with Clips, Slack has announced plans to expand Slack Connect to make it easier for businesses to collaborate with external parties. The communications company has also announced GovSlack, a Slack version that will ...
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WhatsApp End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups to Roll Out Soon for Android, iOS Users
WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will soon start rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups on Android and iOS. The new move will allow users to secure their chat backups stored on Apple iCloud and Google Drive with end-to-end encryption — the same level of protection and security that is available for messages and calls on WhatsApp.
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Telegram Cloud Chats Found to Have Multiple Flaws by Researchers, Fix Issued for all Platforms
Telegram acknowledged the vulnerabilities highlighted by the researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London. The company has said the latest version of its app comes with fixes for all the flaws mentioned. Further, it adds, “None of the changes were critical, as no ways of deciphering or tampering with messages were discovered.”
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WhatsApp Encrypted Cloud Backups Being Tested for Android
WhatsApp is testing the technology to independently encrypt chat backups in the cloud. The Facebook-owned service revealed that the system has been enabled in its most recent Android beta update.
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DoNot Firestarter Android Malware is Using Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to Infect Devices: Cisco Report
A new malware loader called Firestarter from an APT group, DoNot, is reportedly leveraging Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google FCM) infrastructure to infect Android devices, an analysis by Cisco Talos cyber threat researchers said.
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How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages
Have you accidentally deleted a chat on WhatsApp and you don’t know how to restore it? Follow this guide as we tell how you can restore deleted WhatsApp chats through cloud backup and phone’s local storage.
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Samsung's Rich Communications Service Is Compatible With Other RCS Clouds
Apart from the provision of interconnectivity hub, Samsung's RCS service includes RCS-enabled devices, native/downloadable device clients, and cloud-based RCS application servers.
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How to Back Up Your Android Smartphone
To take backup your Android smartphone's data - photos, media, apps, messages - to the cloud, go to Settings, tick mark Auto-sync data under Accounts and select the Google account. Check Backup my data under Backup and Reset within settings. You also need to select all the options by signing into your Google account.
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Beeper Takes Down Beeper Mini App From Google Play Store After iMessage Saga: Report
Beeper Mini has been involved in a long-running saga of promising to facilitate iMessage to Android users, getting blocked by Apple, and finding repeated workarounds to make the service work. The messaging platform seems to be running out of options now, as the Beeper Mini app has reportedly been removed from Google Play Store.
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Beeper Says Its Efforts to Bring iMessage to Android Is ‘Unsustainable’ After Providing Jailbroken iPhone Fix
Beeper, the messaging platform that has fought hard to bring Apple’s iMessage to Android phones, seems to have released a final update for its service. After multiple attempts at making iMessage work on Android devices reliably, with workarounds that involved users accessing a Mac, Beeper has said its efforts to bring the popular messaging servic...
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Beeper Mini Brings iMessage Support to Android Phones, Works Without Apple ID: How It Works
Beeper Mini was launched on Tuesday as a new messaging app bringing iMessage to Android smartphones. The new app from Beeper seems to avoid most of those privacy issues as it works locally on a user's smartphones and can even function without an Apple ID, according to the company.
-
WhatsApp Chat History and Media Backups on Android Will Soon Take Up Space on Google Account Storage
WhatsApp chat history and media backups for Android users are stored separately from their Google account cloud storage. With backups of the popular instant messaging app not taking up space on Google accounts, Android users have had the benefit of additional cloud storage space available for their photos, videos, emails and other files. That is go...
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How to Transfer WhatsApp Chat History on Android or iOS Using QR Code
Meta has made it easier for WhatsApp users to transfer their chat from an old phone to a new phone without use of any backup or cloud services. WhatsApp now allows Android as well as iOS users to transfer their chat history, along with media attachments, between phones running the same OS. Here's the process to transfer WhatsApp chat history on And...
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WhatsApp May Let You Export Chat Backups From Google Drive in Future
WhatsApp is found to be working on an option to let users export their chat backups stored on Google Drive. Separately, the messaging app owned by Facebook parent Meta has been spotted testing the ability to let its business users view the information of the device from where a message has been sent through their accounts.
-
WhatsApp Starts Rolling Out End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups for Android, iOS Users Worldwide
WhatsApp on Thursday started rolling out end-to-end encryption for backups stored on Google Drive and iCloud. The update was announced last month and is now rolling out to Android and iOS users globally.
-
Slack Rolls Out Clips Feature That Allows Users to Record and Send Short Video, Audio Messages
Slack is rolling out a video and audio messaging tool that lets users send short recordings to their colleagues on the platform. Along with Clips, Slack has announced plans to expand Slack Connect to make it easier for businesses to collaborate with external parties. The communications company has also announced GovSlack, a Slack version that will ...
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WhatsApp End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Backups to Roll Out Soon for Android, iOS Users
WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will soon start rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups on Android and iOS. The new move will allow users to secure their chat backups stored on Apple iCloud and Google Drive with end-to-end encryption — the same level of protection and security that is available for messages and calls on WhatsApp.
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Telegram Cloud Chats Found to Have Multiple Flaws by Researchers, Fix Issued for all Platforms
Telegram acknowledged the vulnerabilities highlighted by the researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London. The company has said the latest version of its app comes with fixes for all the flaws mentioned. Further, it adds, “None of the changes were critical, as no ways of deciphering or tampering with messages were discovered.”
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WhatsApp Encrypted Cloud Backups Being Tested for Android
WhatsApp is testing the technology to independently encrypt chat backups in the cloud. The Facebook-owned service revealed that the system has been enabled in its most recent Android beta update.
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DoNot Firestarter Android Malware is Using Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to Infect Devices: Cisco Report
A new malware loader called Firestarter from an APT group, DoNot, is reportedly leveraging Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google FCM) infrastructure to infect Android devices, an analysis by Cisco Talos cyber threat researchers said.
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How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages
Have you accidentally deleted a chat on WhatsApp and you don’t know how to restore it? Follow this guide as we tell how you can restore deleted WhatsApp chats through cloud backup and phone’s local storage.
-
Samsung's Rich Communications Service Is Compatible With Other RCS Clouds
Apart from the provision of interconnectivity hub, Samsung's RCS service includes RCS-enabled devices, native/downloadable device clients, and cloud-based RCS application servers.
-
How to Back Up Your Android Smartphone
To take backup your Android smartphone's data - photos, media, apps, messages - to the cloud, go to Settings, tick mark Auto-sync data under Accounts and select the Google account. Check Backup my data under Backup and Reset within settings. You also need to select all the options by signing into your Google account.
