Trillions of text messages are sent and received via SMS-enabled devices every day, but have you ever stopped to ask, “What is SMS, exactly?” One of the oldest forms of mobile messaging, SMS messages ...

Apple's messaging app Messages has adopted a new cross-platform messaging standard called RCS. Here's how to be sure you have it enabled on your iPhone, and what new features it gives you when ...

After countless ads and several years of Google’s pleading, RCS is an integral part of Apple’s Messages app. It wasn’t always that way, as I jumped on the experience almost immediately, activating it ...

Last week, news broke of an extensive espionage campaign—Chinese hackers infiltrating eight US telecommunications companies and gaining access to text and phone conversations. Not long after, the US ...

The United States government is asking senior government and political officials to use only encrypted communication as concerns grow about what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has called a ...