Last year it was rumored that Facebook was interested in buying WhatsApp, but the price tag on what the Messaging company would cost to acquire was never publicized. Now it is being rumored that the Search Engine Giant — Google — is interested in purchasing WhatsApp for somewhere along the lines of $1 billion. The [...]

The holiday season is here and plenty of things are going to be discounted or free. Only yesterday, EA Games started a sale where about 100 of their iOS apps were either free or below $0.99. There’s going to be more of these sales and WhatsApp Inc. has got one for you right now. The popular [...]

In case you haven’t heard of WhatsApp Messenger yet, or haven’t cared to, now is the time to educate yourself. WhatsApp is essentially an alternative way to send a standard text or multimedia message. You see, instead of sending this message over your cellular network, messages are sent using your data (3G or 4G LTE) [...]

BiteSMS 7.1 was recently released, which added support for iOS 6. The developers behind BiteSMS also updated its sister app, Quick Reply for WhatsApp. Quick Reply for WhatsApp is just like the QuickReply window for BiteSMS, aside from replying through WhatsApp instead of iMessage or SMS. (Landscape mode, Quick Compose, and multimedia attachments are currently [...]

WhatsApp Messenger is probably the most popular messaging client for the iPhone and other smartphones. Using push notifications, WhatsApp can instantly communicate with friends and family. If you are tired of the hidden costs of sending text messages and multimedia messages, switch to WhatsApp and save! WhatsApp uses either your 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi connection. Today [...]

We’ve questioned the encryption scheme of the highly popular WhatsApp messaging service in the past, but the service seems to have another potential flaw. According to a Hacker News Network thread and Sam Granger’s blog the Android version of WhatsApp uses a phone number and a cryptographically tweaked version of the device’s IMEI. This or a [...]

WhatsApp, the heavily used multi-platform SMS alternative received an update yesterday. The update includes encryption over both WiFi and a cellular network, displays push names for unknown numbers, improved message forwarding, and automated image downloading. Cryptography has become a big deal on mobile devices, both as a feature and a concern. Unfortunately WhatsApp doesn’t get [...]

According to BGR, WhatsApp, the multiplatform messaging service and text message replacement, has crossed the threshold of serving 10 billion messages a day. Considering that’s more than the population of the earth, that’s quite a feat. On the other hand, that’s counting both the sending and receiving of WhatsApp messages. All those texts are coming [...]

You might have noticed that WhatsApp had leaked screenshots for a Windows Phone version of their multiplatform messaging app in a hidden section of their website. When we checked last week, the link to the app in the Windows Market Place was down. WhatsApp Messenger has once again returned to Windows Phone 7.5 (and up). [...]

Normally we take leaked screenshots with a grain of iodized salt, but under the circumstances these screenshots are a particularly safe bet. Screenshots hidden inside the media section of WhatsApp’s web server reveal an unannounced Windows 8 version of WhatsApp: a SMS replacement messenger that currently works between iOS, BlackBerry, Android, and Nokia phones. The [...]