Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

I don’t use Facebook much, but when I do it’s for one thing: chat. I don’t like Facebook Messages, I don’t want to get in touch with my friends on walls, I don’t get the new Groups functionality – ...

Today Microsoft Teams takes on the other big name in chat-based workspace software Slack. To do this, they've made their process quite simple – and today we're making it even simpler to understand. As ...

Sometimes, you just want to quickly create a group chat room where you can work something out without worrying about sign-ins or anything else. Hack.chat does just that and nothing you say is saved on ...

Anonymous chat apps are all well and good, but without some way to make sure you have something in common, chatting with strangers quickly loses its appeal. That’s where FlashChat comes in. It lets ...

Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is the grand-daddy of group chat applications, but it's far from the most inviting and easy-to-grasp apps out there. Mibbit, a free web-based IRC client, aims to change ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Snapchat’s best feature is not disappearing messages: it’s simplicity. Sending a picture message to a friend ...