Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A new mobile messaging application called FireChat is empowering nearby smartphone users to stay in touch ...

FireChat, the clever app that lets people talk to each other without using cell reception, just got an update that gives its users fixed handles. That might not mean a damn thing to you, which is ...

Christophe Daligault hasn't slept in three days. On the line from San Francisco at 3.48am his time, Open Garden's Vice President of Sales and Marketing describes how the company's FireChat app has ...

Twitter helped power the Arab Spring in 2012. Now the pro-democracy demonstrations setting Hong Kong in motion are being driven by a new kind of mobile technology: an underground messaging app called ...

FireChat is a messaging app that lets you talk anonymously to people within 200 feet of your location without an internet connection — but this “Nearby” mode was previously limited to showing chats ...

FireChat, the messaging service from Disrupt Battlefield finalist Open Garden that allows you to chat with people around you even when there is no regular Internet connection, is getting a major ...

Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

A new mobile messaging application called FireChat is empowering nearby smartphone users to stay in touch even when there’s no cellular service or Internet connection. In just two weeks since its ...