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 ...

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 ...

Ping, the app that reimagines email as an IM-style activity (read our full review) has today relaunched under the name Hop after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the maker of Ping golf clubs.

“Email is broken” is both a cliché and a truism. Our inboxes continue to pile up with more messages than many of us can handle, and while plenty of people have tried to stick a Band Aid over the ...

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 – ...

Last week, I noticed Apple started sending me emails about people following me on Ping. Yes, Ping: remember it? Apple’s “interesting” attempt at doing social networking within the iTunes Store.

Ping, a mobile messaging app that turns emails into real-time conversations, is relaunching today under the new name of “hop.” (It seems that PING Golf may not have cared for the original name too ...

Activision has revealed a new Call of Duty game built for iOS devices, a new app Ping has reimagined certain aspects of email on mobile devices, and the Google Drive app has gotten a redesign bringing ...