The popular mobile app Snapchat, which allows you to send photos that vanish after a few seconds to your friends, adds live video chats and instant messaging. “Self-destructing messages are still at ...

Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp has launched a new feature called Instant Video Messages which it started testing earlier this year on both Android and iOS. As the name says, WhatsApp will now let ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

UPDATE (January 20, 2026): Google has started to roll out several changes to its Messages app. Find more information about what’s new at the end of the article. Summary: Google Messages is a messaging ...

On Version History: the long reign of AOL Instant Messenger, the messaging app that maybe never should have existed at all. On Version History: the long reign of AOL Instant Messenger, the messaging ...

Videoconferencing rivals Polycom and Tandberg are enhancing their products to let users launch video calls from an instant-message chat session rather than from a dedicated videoconferencing interface ...

Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee ...