With color themes, doodles, voice messaging, and even video chat, the iPhone app feels more like WhatsApp than your traditional e-mail account. Jennifer Van Grove Former Senior Writer / News Jennifer ...

Secret has attracted equal parts fascination and derision. But its new app for Android and iOS is perhaps even more unusual than Secret. The infamous mobile app Secret has attracted equal parts ...

Why would you want to call or text a friend when you can simply ‘ping’ them? Well, that’s exactly where Ping is coming from with its new app. Ping sells itself as a “simple binary messenger” service – ...

How many times have we heard about someone attempting to reinvent email? It’s a lot, and the thing is, I’ve never thought email really needed reinventing. It works in exactly the way it should – ...

The company behind anonymous sharing app Secret is back with a new app, Ping, which tries to be your new best friend. The app, available for iOS and Android, is simple and mysterious, with even the ...

It seems like we all have a love-hate relationship with notifications on our smartphones. Sure, we love to know when we get a new text or email, but we don't care in the least to know that someone is ...

Update: The app formerly known as Ping has been renamed thanks to some trademark disputes; it's now called Hop, and is available in the App Store. Access to the back-end service is by reservation for ...

Ping is a new email app that wants to change your entire view of mobile email. Ping does this by turning messages into conversations. The app focuses on people first. Email, as you know, can sometimes ...