On March 14, 2025, the GSMA, an association representing mobile network operators worldwide, officially unveiled RCS Universal Profile 3.0…
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Apple is right to keep ignoring Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Android green bubbles will remain as it continues to ignore Google’s lightly-used RCS messaging mess…
Apple reportedly to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS
Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…
Apple can transform enterprise communications — if they do this
While enterprises are certainly (and appropriately) adopting Apple’s solutions across their internal infrastructure, they must still communicate with customers…
Why Apple should release Messages for Android
In light of last week’s news that Google is backing a next-gen version of text messaging with iMessage-like features…
Google’s ‘Chat’ is not end-to-end encrypted like Apple’s iMessage
Google has been quietly corralling every major cellphone carrier on the planet into adopting technology to replace SMS…
Russia wants Apple to ban secure, encrypted messaging app Telegram from App Store
Russia’s state telecommunications regulator wants Apple and Google to remove the Telegram messenger app…
Why would Amazon want to get into messaging?
There’s a tendency to give Amazon.com the benefit of the doubt whenever it looks to enter any new market…
Amazon looks to go after messaging with ‘Anytime’ stand-alone app and service
Amazon’s materials claim: “Works everywhere. Chat seamlessly across desktop and mobile, iPhone or Android.”
Apple Cash: Cupertino in talks to finally launch money-transfer service
Apple’s on-again, off-again flirtation with building its own money-transfer service…
Apple’s Messages’ blue bubble keeps me firmly on iPhone
Samsung’s Galaxy S8, like all Android phones, lacks a tiny blue-bubbled wonder: iMessage…
Messages and five other apps Apple really needs to make for Android
Android and iOS may be destined to do battle forever, but when it comes to apps…
How stickers and apps work within iOS 10’s Messages
Developers can create apps that let you share content, edit photos, play games, send payments, and collaborate…
Beyond the flair: iOS 10 turns iMessage into a platform
Apple’s big changes to Messages in iOS 10 seem mostly cosmetic: Giant emoji, full-screen fireworks, handwritten scrawls…
Why I remain unconvinced when Apple denies plans to introduce iMessage to Android
Apple’s improved iMessages system is a tent pole feature within iOS with implications across Apple Watch and the Mac…
Apple just supercharged the most important social network in your life
Family and friends on Android devices or Windows PCs will be missing out on the fun…
Why Apple’s holding back Messages for Android: Hardware sales
At WWDC on Monday, Apple again declined to extend its much-loved and much-used iMessage messaging system to Android…
Apple’s new iMessage is great, but why the hell isn’t it on Android, yet?
Apple’s big messaging moves were among the biggest and most unexpected announcements…
Apple to deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC
Apple will announce that iMessage encrypted text messaging is coming to Android users…
Why you shouldn’t install the Facebook app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
I recently created a Facebook account after a long absence from the social media service…
Messaging and the Apple Watch
Jonathan Ive’s team developed the Apple Watch to help solve the problem…
Ex-Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie looks to reinvent the phone call with ‘Talko’ iPhone app
At one point, Ozzie wants to show me something on the app. We both pull out our iPhones…
How Steve Jobs would’ve introduced iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
If you felt uneasy through Apple’s keynote…
iOS 8: Will Apple’s new Messages app confuse users?
Apple is taking a calculated risk with its iOS 8 software…
Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion
Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social network…
Mobile use grew 115% in 2013, spurred by messaging and social apps
For the past five years, we have watched mobile disrupt every industry…
Why Microsoft’s Skype still can’t compete with Apple’s iMessage
The one Microsoft platform that both needs native Skype integration..
Why Apple TV has nothing to fear from Microsoft’s Xbox One
Today Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One at its Redmond, Washington campus…
Mac users of iChat messaging could be burned by new AIM logging
As pointed out recently by the Electronic Frontier Foundation…
U.S. teens triple mobile data usage year-over-year
Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption…
