Texting has changed over the past few years. With Android phones' adoption of RCS messaging in 2019 and Apple's reluctant acceptance of the new standard earlier this year in iOS 18, legacy SMS texting ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...

These days, sending a text message is the preferred mode of communication by most people. Not only is it the more discreet and polite option — it gives the recipient complete control over when to ...

Signal says it will start to phase out SMS and MMS message support from its Android app to streamline the user experience and prioritize security and privacy. While this announcement may surprise ...

Ever wondered why your text messages sometimes fail to send, show up pixelated or don’t appear at all on the other person’s end? It might not be your phone, but your carrier’s messaging support.

Today, it is more vital than ever for companies to be able to reach their target audiences where they are. Email and social media have long been staples of customer engagement strategies, but the ...

Rich Rosen is the Founder & CEO of Fastcall—a leading Salesforce native app for phone, SMS and video. Rich has two phone-related patents. SMS messaging is great for marketing, sales, customer service ...

SMS/text messaging provides a direct mechanism to reach constituents. By sending content directly to their mobile device, users are more likely to consume and appropriately react to content that has ...

SMS-based multifactor authentication is now so badly compromised that it has become a major vector for fraud. But there's a ...