In part one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we created a utility that could send and receive messages but that wasn’t exactly in a state to replace your current ...

SMS may not be nearly as popular as it used to be, but many people still use it. It’s still quite essential in a number of ways, and there’s a reason why it survived for so long. In some regions, it’s ...

Pulse SMS remains one very popular app for millions of users on Android, so it’s no surprise that many of those who already installed it run it on Android Auto too. Not a long time ago, it was ...

Google’s attempts to integrate SMS with Hangouts might not have been universally popular, but that hasn’t stopped another company from trying to bring together instant messaging and SMS. The latest ...

If you own an iPhone, your SMS needs are covered: Apple’s built-in SMS app works fine (at least until Messages debuts as part of the iPhone 3.0 update). But if you’re rocking an iPod touch, texting ...

Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it. The Infinite SMS app, which cost ...

There are oodles of OS X apps to let you interact with your bluetooth phone. Some apps let you control your mac using your phone, others simply act as a caller ID. BluePhoneElite goes one further, ...

MFA, or Multi-Factor Authentication, has proliferated throughout our computing lives over the last decade. It largely began with SMS-based authentication in addition to a password, allowing users to ...

The new restrictions on apps collecting call log and SMS were announced in October and came into effect on Wednesday. They are aimed at stopping app developers from tricking users into unnecessarily ...

Smartphone chat apps such as Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger have overtaken SMS text messages for the first time, according to analysts Informa. Nearly 19billion messages were sent every day worldwide ...

Twitter is making a rather controversial change next month that would prevent the platform's non-paying users from using SMS as the second layer of authentication. Following the policy change, only ...