I’ve received many texts in the past that have genuinely made me wonder if the people who’ve sent them had forgotten how to ...

Free Starlink text communication for poor people in Africa and Asia can double some of their earnings. Poor people can use it to access day labor job markets. They can use it compare where they can ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

Trillions of text messages are sent and received via SMS-enabled devices every day, but have you ever stopped to ask, “What is SMS, exactly?” One of the oldest forms of mobile messaging, SMS messages ...

If you're in multiple text threads with different people in your life — your family, your partner, your kid's teacher — it can be hard to stay on top of your messages. Who should you respond to first?

The most common form of texting worldwide is through over-the-top (OTT) services that operate on top of another service. In this case, the internet. Apps that offer OTT messaging surged in popularity ...

Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly to ...

SMS and RCS are communication protocols. While SMS relies on simplicity and ubiquity, RCS offers major feature upgrades in every other area. SMS is limited to short and plain texts, while RCS lets you ...