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In what is a clever marketing ploy for the Viber messaging, voice and video calling app, its CEO is making an appeal to Australians to use its services, with Viber stating it cut all business ties with Facebook back in June 2020.

Global telecommunications companies are under intense pressure to adapt in a rapidly changing market, as they face dramatic changes in the political, business, and economic environment and the accelerating pace of technological innovation, according to a new risk report.

Tough new rules on tracking users by messaging services, laid out by the European Commission in a revision of its ePrivacy Directive, will affect WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Gmail among others.

The take up of VoIP services in Australia has risen significantly over recent years, with more than 5 million adult Aussies now using a VoIP service.

BlackBerry is attempting to separate its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate business to compete with iMessage and WhatsApp, according to fresh reports.

The release of Shoretel's Dock device this week throws up some necessary questions about the future of telephony and VOIP, the answers to which aren't immediately obvious.

Viber today shocked its users, and possibly its rivals, by launching a fully-fledged desktop app for Mac and PC.

The massive popularity of free messaging apps and a decline in SMS iis causing operators to worry about monetizing messaging services, according to global analyst firm Ovum.

Massively popular messaging app WhatsApp is in negotiations with Google over pricing of a takeover, if ‘insider sources’ are to be believed.

Developers have committed to porting a variety of well-known consumer apps and games to BlackBerry 10.

Popular VoIP and messaging application Viber is already available on several smartphone platforms, and has just launched a new beta for BlackBerries and Windows Phones, but without voice calls on those two new platforms – yet.