Researchers analyzed WhatsApp metadata to test how accurately people judge their own messaging habits and response patterns.

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.

Clerk Chat Inc., a startup building a messaging platform that integrates with major telecommunications carriers, today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based firm plans ...

What happens if the network that you depend on goes dark? Well, for a number of Verizon customers in the US, that was a ...

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.

An automated SMS program embedded into TB care helped 40% of patients quit smoking; experts explore if a program might help cessation among smokers with other comorbidities.

Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 ...

Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles scam example. U.S. consumers lost $470 million to text-messaging scams last year, and as they become more sophisticated, more people are likely to be victims. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The TCPA, a decades-old law governed by the Federal Communications Commission, prohibits automated text messages without prior ...

RiverLink is once again warning customers about a text messaging scam going around.Officials with the toll service said there is a text smishing scam impersonating them for the three bridges ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.- The South Lake Tahoe Police Department (SLTPD) announced the rollout of pre-arrival text messaging.