Use SMS messaging in text message marketing campaigns to reach customers on their mobile devices. Learn the types of SMS messages and how to use them.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Do you text during work meetings? How about during a wedding or funeral? Have you ever been dumped via text? These are all questions that the company Infobip collected data on in their ...

The change will go into effect on May 22, at which point users will no longer be able to send and receive SMS text messages through the app. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, ...

With many mobile users hardly functioning without peeking at their phones every few minutes, businesses have realized that one of the best ways to reach an engaged consumer is on their mobile device, ...

In a "happy birthday" post to SMS, Google called Apple out, saying it's time to switch to RCS. RCS, or Rich Communications Services, would make texting between iPhones and Androids easier. The first ...

Bulk texting, also known as mass text messaging, is a popular communication service that is used by businesses across the world for the purpose of marketing and promotion. It is an effective and ...

Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly to ...

Remember when you used to be able to send SMS text messages with the Facebook messenger app, but then it mysteriously vanished never to be heard from again? Well, it looks like Facebook is hellbent on ...

In 1959, Volvo Cars launched the 122S and introduced the three-point seatbelt. In 1959, fewer than 10% of cars had seatbelts. Because of Volvo’s innovation, by 1968 seatbelts were legally required in ...

For years, we've relied on short message service (SMS) for texting. It was a game-changer when it first appeared in 1992. But, over the years, we've become tired of its 160-character-length limit and ...

SMS (Short Message Service) traffic, otherwise known as text messaging, is on a downward spiral. For the first time ever in the U.K., reports have emerged suggesting that people are sending fewer and ...

A growing number of mobile users are turning to chat apps to communicate with friends and family, shunning text messaging plans that once served as major cash cows for wireless providers. Daily ...