When Cliff Weitzman emailed me about his Black SMS iPhone app, I was impressed by the pitch alone. An App Store app that encrypts text messages and emails between iPhones and iPads? Sign me up! Black ...

In part one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we created a utility that could send and receive messages but that wasn’t exactly in ...

Not a fan of Hangouts as your primary texting app? You have a couple options to change the default app. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news ...

If you've got six bucks to spare, you can get a year's worth of free texting--complete with new-message alerts that appear even when your iPhone is off. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

Short Message Service (SMS), more colloquially known as ‘text,’ is a protocol used for sending short messages over mobile networks. The first SMS was sent in 1992; By 2010, SMS was the most widely ...

In spite of being in existence since the inception of smartphones, SMS apps oddly seem to be going through a technological refresh of late. In addition to adopting smarter algorithms to segregate and ...

A better alternative for the generic SMS application for Android devices. Android users have more reason to smile now as they would save much more time from the gruelling exercise to manage one’s ...

While internet-based messaging apps dominate today’s communication landscape, traditional SMS texting still plays an ...

Signal is removing the option to send and receive SMS messages in its Android app. Folks who currently use Signal as their default SMS app will receive alerts advising them to switch to a different ...