{"id":58357,"date":"2014-10-21T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58357"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:02:01","slug":"blackberry-adds-timed-retracted-messages-to-bbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=58357","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry adds timed, retracted messages to BBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released a preview of two new premium functions coming to Blackberry Messenger in its next release.<\/p>\n<p>These are a timer, to control how long messages and pictures shared with contacts can be viewed within BBM, and the ability to retract a sent message.<\/p>\n<p>The timer function works through an icon next to the text bar. Senders are also notified if the recipient takes a screen shot of a timed message.<\/p>\n<p>The retraction feature works only with message to start, not pictures, and is only available in one-to-one chats.<\/p>\n<p>The new features are currently in testing in a limited beta for users on Android and BlackBerry 10.<\/p>\n<p>Timer and Retract will be available in the 2.5 release of BBM for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry 10, &#8220;coming very, very soon,&#8221; BlackBery said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Telecompaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released a preview of two new premium functions coming to Blackberry Messenger in its next release. These are a timer, to control how long messages and pictures shared with contacts can be viewed within BBM, and the ability to retract a sent message. The timer function works through an icon next to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":58358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-58357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}