Google will reportedly add SMS sending capabilities to Gmail Chat today which will now let desktop Gmail users swap instant messages with mobile phone users via SMS protocol. Previously Gmail users ...

The hero changes to iMessage in iOS 16 are the addition of edit button and undo send features. However, there’s also another enhancement that Apple didn’t mention on stage: the dreaded Tapback spam in ...

Google and a handful of U.S. carriers are set to redefine the SMS standard. The search company announced a year ago that Android Messages would be preloaded by 20 or more OEMs as the official Rich ...

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UPDATE: Google has rolled back the SMS feature in Gmail due to a glitch. It will be available again in about 2 weeks. See the official word from Google at the bottom of the post. Users of Google's ...

After a hiatus of more than a month, Google has reintroduced a feature to send instant messages to phones via SMS. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Gmail's chat-to-SMS feature is getting pulled back by a couple weeks for the Gmail team to fix a showstopper bug that kept it from working properly. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

We've known about Google's plans to replace SMS with the Rich Communication Services standard (RCS) for a couple of years. Now, it's been revealed that the company's brand name for this iMessage-style ...

While you have companies like HTC and Samsung pushing the limits of the hardware and operating system level software integration on Windows Mobile, there are also several companies providing software ...

“Email and messaging should be simple,” declared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a press conference Monday. He explained three pillars to an overhauled messaging system on the social network site: ...