A new Consumer Reports survey finds texting and messaging scams have jumped 50% in the past year, and Gen Z is getting hit ...

Texting your customers (in moderation, of course) can lead to higher open and response rates, saved time, and happier customers. Five years ago, you may have scoffed at the idea of texting in business ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Tension: We’ve turned communication incompetence into an acceptable personality trait, using self-deprecation to avoid accountability for how ...

Texting turns 20 as usage declines. Dec.3, 2012 — -- It was 20 years ago today that the first text message was sent. It was Dec. 3, 1992, and Neil Papworth, an engineer working in the UK, sent ...

The commander of the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says he does not know whether the 2-month-old Ohio texting law is responsible for bringing down traffic fatalities and crashes ...

If you have a smartphone, you may have felt the embarrassment of sending a private message to the wrong person or having autocorrect fail you at just the wrong time. But some people experience a ...

Mariah West was a devoted texter. At 18, she could hold dinner conversations with her family while surreptitiously texting with friends, hiding her cellphone under the table. Everyone in the Rogers, ...

Whitney Yaeger tapped out a text message as she drove to work on a cloudy June morning two years ago. What she wrote isn't detailed in the Ohio Highway Patrol crash report. What ended the message, ...

A new PSA by TextsWreck aims to stop texting and driving with a text–full of tiny cartoon cars, puppies, fire, and ghosts. Texting and driving is a modern plague that kills 11 teenagers every day and ...