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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.

A lawsuit alleges WhatsApp may expose more data than people realize. We compare Signal, iMessage, Google Messages, and RCS as ...

The French and U.K. equivalents to the U.S. government’s cyber defense agency have issued new advice for users. “Deactivate the automatic reception of MMS messages,” ANSSI warns, “to avoid the ...

Open Whisper Systems, a provider of security-related technologies and apps for mobile devices, has started rolling out an Android version of its private messaging and calling iOS app Signal. In doing ...

Over a billion RCS messages are sent on a daily basis in the United States, Google said today. ‌RCS‌, or Rich Communication Services, is a communication protocol that replaced the prior SMS and MMS ...

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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 ...