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Tag: SMS

  1. Beleaguered BlackBerry to offer free BBM messaging for iPhone, announces ‘Q5′ phone for emerging markets

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013 · 2:01 pm · 6 Comments

    Beleaguered BlackBerry announced plans on Tuesday to offer its instant messaging system on iPhone…

  2. Apple’s iMessage encryption trips up U.S. feds’ surveillance

    Thursday, April 4, 2013 · 10:31 am · 36 Comments

    Encryption used in Apple’s iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents…

  3. Is Apple’s iMessage killing texting after all?

    Wednesday, November 14, 2012 · 12:33 pm · 20 Comments

    This week carriers saw the first-ever decline in SMS text messaging…

  4. Text messages decline for first time ever in Q3, thanks to Apple’s iMessage, Wi-Fi, and others

    Monday, November 12, 2012 · 5:17 pm · 26 Comments

    The amount of text messages sent during Q3 2012 showed the first decline ever…

  5. Flaw in Samsung’s ‘TouchWiz’ UI leaves devices open to data-wiping

    Tuesday, September 25, 2012 · 4:00 pm · 26 Comments

    An attacker could load the code in a website, SMS, an NFC Android Beam connection or via a QR code…

  6. iOS 6 includes emojis featuring gay and lesbian couples

    Thursday, June 14, 2012 · 1:24 pm · 122 Comments

    The newest version of Apple’s iPhone comes with brand new emojis…

  7. Apple to ‘iMessage’ Instagram to death with iOS 6 and iCloud?

    Monday, May 14, 2012 · 3:48 pm · 18 Comments

    Apple’s upgrade of its mobile-phone operating system iOS 6 and the iCloud service…

  8. More signs of steep text message erosion

    Thursday, December 29, 2011 · 2:11 pm · 38 Comments

    Signs of consumers moving on from text-messaging to social media, email and IP-based messaging systems…

  9. U.S. teens triple mobile data usage year-over-year

    Thursday, December 15, 2011 · 4:14 pm · 5 Comments

    Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption…

  10. Apple’s iMessage arrives Wednesday, could take big bite out of carriers’ text-messenging profits

    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 · 8:58 am · 52 Comments

    At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free…

  11. Apple and others about to kill SMS

    Monday, August 22, 2011 · 7:57 pm · 49 Comments

    Goodbye, SMS. You won’t be missed…

  12. AT&T to offer one unlimited text plan for $20 per month

    Monday, August 22, 2011 · 12:33 pm · 21 Comments

    One of the leading wireless carriers, AT&T Inc. has planned to shelve…

  13. Text messaging dying? Sharply slowing growth worries carriers

    Friday, June 10, 2011 · 3:44 pm · 49 Comments

    Carriers, such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, charge texting fees ranging from…