Viber Messenger: Chats & Calls

In the interest of saving you time (and money) when you travel on apps that won’t help you get from point A to point B, we’ve sounded out dozens of road warriors — including flight attendants, serial conference goers, travel…

Viber’s new look for iOS 7 isn’t just cosmetic. It’s added a handful of new features such as multi-photo messaging and block lists. It’s also finally supporting BlackBerry’s latest OS.

As we wind down the year, The Next Web compiled a list of some of the social apps that have made some significant moves in 2013. How did we qualify what a social app was? In our mind, it was a service that had a core functionality that enabled users to interact and engage with other people, either online or offline....

SFeel that holiday spirit in the air? It smells like pine trees and whatever toy parents are beating each other up over this year. Share the giving spirit and present your phone with some sweet new apps. Multi-Platform UpdatesViberSThis week's update brings the ability to make VoIP phone calls to any phone number, landline or mobile, for an allegedly low rate (calls to other app users are free). The app also displays your phone number on caller ID, so your far-flung friends need not know you're calling...

More than a month after Viber announced that it would start selling stickers, the messaging app is rolling out an update today for iOS and Android which includes… yes, a sticker market....

We’ve known for sometime that SMS is becoming passe for many smartphone owners worldwide....

Mobile messengers are all the rage now. That and stickers. But most of us still spend plenty of time at our computers, so being able to message across PC and mobile platforms is a feature that has been overlooked all too often by service providers....

At its annual I/O conference back in May, Google teased the public with a number of significant announcements – such as a new Maps product for desktop, and a Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android....

Messaging startup Viber, which lets users of most smartphone platforms send free texts, calls and messages via its app, is continuing to ramp up its user-base. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, CEO Talmon Marco announced  the startup now has 175 million users. Viber has been around since early 2011, but growing rapidly in the past 12 months. In December it…

Today Viber has hit another huge milestone, announcing that there are now over 140 million users on the service, and that’s only the beginning. According to the company, an additional 400,000 users join the service every day. To celebrate, the company has launched version 3.2 of the popular calling and messaging app, with brand new features for iOS and Android users. In case you haven’t…

Viber, the mobile messaging and voice calling application that lets iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphone owners communicate for free over 3G or WiFi, has attracted 140 million users in 193 countries to date (up from 100 million last September and 90 million in July)....

Viber has essentially been a smash hit right from its conception. The company hit 50 million registered users in February of last year, extending that to 70 million by May. But today marks one of the company’s greatest milestones: Viber has just surpassed 100 million registered users....

Viber is a fairly well-regarded and free cross-platform VoIP and chat app, and the company just pushed out a new update that brings some useful new features for Apple and Google's mobile platforms. Chief among those is a new, revamped voice engine, though it seems like only iOS users will be able to take advantage of that for now. However, both platforms will be able to take advantage of group text chat features and photos for the contact list. Viber also mentioned that it is "hard at work" to add...

Viber Media, the Israeli company building a cross-platform mobile communications suite for smartphones, says it has attracted over 90 million users making over 1.5 billion minutes of free calls and…

iPhone VoIP app Viber introduced a new update Thursday that introduces text messaging and some excellent UX refinements. Viber is growing fast (with 10 million downloads since its introduction), and smart updates like this will help make sure it keeps nipping at Skype’s heels.

Today sees the launch of Viber, a brand new, free iPhone application (iTunes link) that basically functions the way pretty much every iPhone user wishes Skype’s mobile application would. My educated guess is that this will become a stunningly big hit in no time. Viber for iPhone allows you to make 100% free calls to other Viber users over 3G and WiFi, is capable of running completely in the background without draining your battery (even when the app isn’t actually running in the background, but more on ...