Notify.gov, a federal system designed to send mass texts to the public, is in imminent danger of shutting down, according to publicly-available proposed changes to its website. This government tool, ...

Officials with the U.S. Postal Service are warning of an ongoing text messaging scam that could target you this holiday ...

Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to joining CNET, Joe led MyMove's moving coverage and reported on broadband policy, the digital divide, and ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The technology underpinning early mobile text messaging began development in the 1980s. The short message service (SMS) ...

Apple introduced satellite connectivity for iPhones back in 2022, and since then, satellite messaging options have become the new must-have feature for carriers and other smartphone manufacturers.

T-Mobile's Text to 911 service is now available. The option is available free of charge to anyone with a compatible smartphone. T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T customers can sign up for it. Imagine you ...

A text messaging service said Friday that it discovered "one or more" of its users allegedly sent out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut down ...

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has launched a new text messaging service to offer drivers real-time communication during unexpected traffic backlogs. The service will share automated, ...

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Canadian telecom Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) has launched a satellite-to-mobile text messaging service, which will expand its network coverage into more than 2M square miles (5.4M sq km) of ...