Viber arrives on PC and Mac - The Republic

Available

the computer version of the popular messaging software. The app automatically synchronizes with the user’s account and report on your desk activities going on in the mobile domain. Updates for iOS and Android

OUTSIDE the boundaries of the smartphone. Viber, one of the most popular mobile messaging applications, lands on the desktop PC and Mac integrating the world of contacts already present on mobile devices, and going to compete directly with Skype. A passage expansion, to Viber, Whatsapp which still lacks. But as Facebook has taken time, completely renewing its application messaging, and even Apple has been able to ride with the extension of iMessage to the Mac as well as iPhone and iPad. Why is it on the ground of the convergence of devices that the battle is fought for the users.

IMAGES: VIBER TO DESKTOP Into Viber now has over 200 million users and is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry. In the computer versions, Viber uses the mobile phone number associated with users as login ID, and password is obviously what you already have. New users can register by entering the phone number and the confirmation code that arrives via sms. “The idea is to use Viber as instinctive as possible. It ‘s true that people often your smartphone, but just as often works on the PC. And now can send messages directly from your desk,” says the CEO of Viber , Talmon Marco. And for this desktop version there is also the possibility

video calls, just like on Skype.

After installation and access the desktop app will synchronize with the central database of Viber on your PC and will report all open conversations. The “push” the message will be the case only on the device is in operation, while the deletion of messages will be propagated to all those registered in the name of the user. In addition to the computer version, there is an ongoing update of Viber for Mobile. Version 3.0 brings several changes and brings with it an improved algorithm for voice playback. The Android version has been fixed a security bug that made the system vulnerable to hacker attacks.