Skype One Ups Facetime and Google Hangouts with New Update - http://clapway.com/2016/01/13/skype-one-ups-facetime-and-google-hangouts-with-this-new-update-123/

Skype is celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2016, and they’ve brought in an update that will out Google Hangouts and Facetime to shame. People can now group video call for free on iPhones, iPads, Android devices and Windows 10 devices.

Group Video Had Only Been Available for Mac and PC

Even though the update rolled out for desktop versions of the application, this is the first time it is available for mobile, and for free. According to the announcements, mobile group video calling will be gradually rolling out to their hundreds of millions of mobile users in the next few weeks.

There was no exact launch date specified. However, the platform will provide users with a pre-registration form for those who want early access to the update. Said form only requires user’s emails, their username, location and type of device. Upon registration, the platform will send users an email to set up the update for their mobile device. The announcement did not specify if the update will require beta software installation or if the update will be made in-app.

Skype Through the Years

Skype has become a household name. It has nearly completely replaced the term ‘video calling’ and become a verb of itself. The platform has more than 750 million mobile users and has seen 10x grown since 2014.

The Platform is Killing Google Hangouts, Chat and FaceTime

The platform has also seen many positive changes for accessibility. It has enabled video messaging, real-time speech and instant message translation. Not Facetime nor Google Hangouts have any of these features. Both platforms seem very lacking compared to Skype. Now that multiple group video calling is free and available on mobile, it might be the end FaceTime. A link can now bring you into Skype communications, even if you don’t have an account. Over the past decade, Skype says it has generated nearly 2 trillion minutes of free Skype calls worldwide. With the rollout of group calls on mobile, that figure will certainly continue to grow.

The service has hosted over 2 trillion of free Skype calls globally in the past ten years, and this number will keep growing. Google Hangouts and Chat aren’t nearly as popular as Skype, and it shares one thing in common with FaceTime. These services are both usually used just for convenience. Undoubtedly, it’s time to step it up.

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Skype One Ups Facetime and Google Hangouts with New Update

Hillary Clinton Has No Idea What Encryption Is - http://clapway.com/2015/11/20/hillary-clinton-has-no-idea-what-encryption-is123/

Hilary Clinton Gave A Funny Answer to the Issue of Encryption

The dispute of information encryption rages on in the United States. With the terrorist attacks in Paris only adding fuel to the fire for those against encryption, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks about the need for collaboration.

Encryption is For Protection, Not Terrorism

Clinton stated in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that Silicon Valley should see the government as a friend and helper, not an enemy, especially through these times. She calls for the nation’s best minds in the technology industry to collaborate with the finest minds in the public market to create solutions that will keep the nation safe. While the dispute has gone back and forth for a while now, records that the Paris aggressors used encrypted message services to plan these attacks and communicate has brought the practicality of encryption to question.

The thing is, encryption is doing a whole more good than bad. What, then, should the government do? Monitor everyone’s activity? Implant chips onto our brains and track all movement?

ISIS Is Using All Tools Available, And While That Isn’t Great, It’s Inevitable

An ISIS handbook likewise advised followers on ways to avoid being sensed online, including making use of encrypted apps like Apple’s FaceTime and also iMessage instead of normal content messaging. Both messaging applications are totally secured down and Apple cannot access the information, even if legislation enforcement problems a warrant. ISIS additionally supposedly has a 24-hour aid work desk to aid with issues of secure communication. Law enforcement and government officials maintain that such strict file encryption is a public safety and security problem, asserting that authorities ought to have accessibility to stop terrorists from going undiscovered.

Hillary Clinton Has No Idea What Encryption Is

#LiveText is #Yahoo"s new answer to #better #connection in the #DigitalAge - http://clapway.com/2015/07/30/yahoo-launches-the-frankenstein-of-messaging-apps-and-its-called-livetext-342/

On Wednesday, Yahoo announced that it would be releasing a new messaging app that takes the best part of all the messaging apps before it. It’s called Livetext and it lets users see each other but not hear each other.

Yahoo’s Frankenstein

Livetext takes features from FaceTime, Skype, Snapchat, Meerkat, and Periscope and combines them to create a messaging app that doesn’t exist to compete with these platforms but complement them.

Adam Cahan, senior vice president of video, design, and emerging products of Yahoo, believes that audio can be inhibiting in some situations where you may want to see who you are communicating with, but can’t audibly talk to them.

With that in mind, Livetext allows users to chat via text and emojis like Periscope, it doesn’t archive media or other files like Snapchat, and it organizes contact lists and friend quests similar to Facebook Messenger and Snapchat.

Yahoo Doesn’t Believe Livetext is a Competitor to Its Peers

Cahan believes that Livetext serves a niche that will be carved out once people begin to see how useful it can be. If a user is commuting to work via public transportation and they want to FaceTime someone, it can be difficult to accomplish in such a noisy environment. Similarly, there are sometimes when a user doesn’t want to communicate solely via text and may want to see who they are talking to. Situations like these are what Yahoo hopes users will take advantage of by using Livetext.

“And what we found in our user studies and testing was that they found new times to use the product, starting to engage more and more frequently, and having more and more conversations on our service. They definitely get it,” said Cahan.

Livetext Will be Launching July 30

Last quarter, Yahoo reported that 20% of its revenue came from mobile. Historically, it hasn’t been interested in pursuing many social services, but it looks like that may soon begin to change as Yahoo bolsters its communication services with Livetext.

Yahoo said users in the United States and four other countries can begin to download the app on their Android and iOS devices on thursday.

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Yahoo Launches the Frankenstein of Messaging Apps and It"s Called Livetext