The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

SMS may not be nearly as popular as it used to be, but many people still use it. It’s still quite essential in a number of ways, and there’s a reason why it survived for so long. In some regions, it’s ...

Android’s default messaging client for 2018—”Messages”—is getting a Web client today. Google announced the feature launch on the official Google blog, which says “Messages for Web” will roll out to ...

You don't have to lose your text messages when you change phones. This guide will show you how to download your SMS messages.

Remember when phones were just phones? While you might use your Android device for pretty much anything but sending and receiving text messages most of the time (even to the point of preferring ...

In this paper, that lets users “Remotely” perform various tasks on their phone from any other phone via simple SMS (Short Message Service) commands. The other phone, that is sending the commands, need ...

With smartphones getting more advanced all the time, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they’re designed for making calls and sending messages, and everything else is just an added extra. In this ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The SMS text ...

“Italian made Ray Bay, Oakley sunglasses :)” reads the Emoji-riddled iMessage sitting in your iPhone’s Messages inbox. “Pick up Your New RayBan Sunglasses Here before they run out!” If you’re using ...

Roger is a long-time tech journalist with many site credits including AppleInsider and Android Authority. His specialties include everything from Apple, Android, and Windows devices through to ...

Advanced Info Service (AIS) has launched a new "1185 Snap and Share" service allowing customers to report fraudulent SMS ...

According to threat intelligence analysts at Malwarebytes, the Android threat landscape is not just evolving, it is entering an entirely new phase of its evolution. Pieter Arntz, a malware ...