Feel like you've been getting more spam messages than usual, especially oddly personal phishing texts? Well, you are probably right. Spam texts have surged in the U.S. every year since the COVID-19 ...

Stop! Don’t reply “Stop” or Stop2End to any more infernal political text messages asking you to take a poll, click a link, or donate. That’s supposed to work, but it’s not. Just ask anyone who has ...

What’s next for Texts.com? The all-in-one messaging app was acquired this fall by WordPress.com owner Automattic for $50 million, marking the company’s first official expansion into the world of ...

Americans were bombarded with political text messages in the months leading up to the midterm elections last year, even more than they were during the 2020 presidential race, something experts ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country referencing slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past ...

Republished on March 11th with details of new state by state warnings and government advice for anyone receiving these dangerous texts. The FBI warns a threat moving across America “from state to ...

Google Messages is testing a long-awaited trash folder feature, enabling users to easily recover accidentally deleted texts. This significant update, found in the latest beta, will eliminate the ...

No, you’re not losing your mind. Here’s why some texts are green, and some are blue. If you own an iPhone, at some point you’ve probably wondered, “Why are my texts green? Aren’t they supposed to be ...

Group texts can be useful—or total chaos. Here's how to stop annoying everyone in your chat with some simple etiquette rules. There are two types of people in this world: People who think group texts ...

Text messaging leveled off between 2010 and 2011, even as users send or receive more than 40 texts per day on average Along with taking photos, text messaging is the most common non-voice application ...