Sms articles

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  Article

  Google's SMS Search is the latest legacy service to get the axe

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 12, 2013 08:15 pm + 54 comments

  If you’ve never owned a cellphone without a data plan, chances are good that you’ve never heard Continue reading…

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  Article

  Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all?

  By Ellis Hamburger on May 2, 2013 01:46 pm + 373 comments

  Great, I’ll text you later! Never mind, I’ll WhatsApp you later, or are you using Kik now? Ah, I Continue reading…

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  Article

  Chat apps surpass SMS for the first time, study finds

  By Chris Welch on April 29, 2013 09:33 am + 43 comments

  Messaging apps are proving enormously popular across the globe; WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum recently Continue reading…

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  Video

  Chat Heads & the future of Facebook messaging

  on April 16, 2013 12:21 pm + 3 comments

  Ellis Hamburger visits the Facebook campus to investigate the birth of Chat Heads and Facebook's bet Continue reading…

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  Feature

  Talking heads: how a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing

  By Ellis Hamburger on April 16, 2013 12:17 pm + 122 comments

  On a Wednesday almost one year ago, Facebook product designers Joey Flynn and Brandon Walkin decided Continue reading…

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  Article

  FTC files charges against spammers accused of sending 180 million text messages

  By Bryan Bishop on March 7, 2013 07:47 pm + 27 comments

  Last year the Federal Communications Commission put new measures in place to protect consumers from Continue reading…

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  Article

  AT&T and Mozilla to demo browser-based video calling and mobile integration at MWC

  By Aaron Souppouris on February 24, 2013 06:46 am + 16 comments

  Ericsson, AT&T, and Mozilla have announced WebPhone, a new browser-based platform that will tightly Continue reading…

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  Article

  Google begins integrating Voice service with Contacts

  By Ben Kersey on January 10, 2013 03:25 pm + 47 comments

  Google has begun to integrate its Voice product into Google Contacts. The company started rolling Continue reading…

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  Article

  WhatsApp now free to download for iOS

  By Jeff Blagdon on December 20, 2012 03:44 am + 85 comments

  The popular cross-platform messaging client WhatsApp is giving its iPhone application away for free Continue reading…

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  Article

  Apple updates its malware blacklist to protect Mac OS X users from SMSSend trojan

  By Kimber Streams on December 13, 2012 04:50 pm + 61 comments

  Apple has updated its Xprotect anti-malware blacklist tool to address a new trojan for OS X that s Continue reading…