The messaging service will allow voice calls as early as April, said chief executive Jan Koum
Apps & Web
How to Use Your Smartphone Camera to Search
Whether you’re trying to identify something you’d like to buy, checking for deals or looking for information on what you see in the world around you, visual search apps can help.
This Is What Virtual Reality Zelda Looks Like on Oculus Rift
The coolest original Legend of Zelda demo you’ve never seen.
WhatsApp Suffers Outage
Messaging app was down for hours, just days after news of $19 billion acquisition by Facebook
The Smartphone App Wars Are Over, and Apple Won
How the company would contend with a post-app era isn’t so obvious, though.
What’s Your Lowest Super Mario Bros. Score? Watch This Guy Break the World Record
Think of it as the Limbo dance of game achievements.
Best Tax Software: TurboTax vs. H&R Block vs. TaxACT
We’ll take a look at the software that can make this year’s taxes a breeze — or, if not a breeze, at least as easy and straightforward as taxes can be.
Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition Explained
Also: How you, too, can make a $19 billion smartphone app. Also: Not really.
Microsoft Stops Hiding Office’s Free Online Edition
A useful service gets a new name and better promotion.
The Thief Launch Trailer Has Everything, Including Electric Guitars
Not your parents’ Thief, and that’s probably fine.
Researchers Building Social Media Lie Detector
An international group of researchers, led by the University of Sheffield in England, is building a lie detector to help sort out fact from fiction on social media.
Facebook Once Rejected WhatsApp Founder for a Job
Now it’s buying his company for $19 billion