Got a Favourite Android SMS App?
I don’t really like Android’s SMS at all. (I’m on HTC’s Sense-flavored Jellybean, btw.) In particular, the lock-screen notifications really bug me—there’s no way to see if you’ve gotten more than one...
View ArticleTexting Your Mum Costs More Than Texting MARS
In terms of cost per kilobyte of data, the Earth-based telecoms companies are charging us more per byte of data than the cost of communicating with Mars. Try wheeling that statistic out the next time...
View ArticleA Children’s Treasury of Texting Slang
Today is texting’s 20th birthday, and as part of the celebration, we’ve rounded up a little museum of texting slang. You may know some of it very well, you may not recognise some of it at all. You may...
View ArticleResearchers Find SMS Vulnerability in Twitter
Twitter users who have taken the time to set up Tweeting-by-SMS are putting themselves at risk of attacks where anybody can post to their account, according to a team of security researchers. The...
View ArticleThe Future of Texting Is a Mess
SMS messaging turned 20 years old the other day, and feels even older. It’s decrepit, though, wildly overpriced, and too limited to be our long-term texting solution. But all the up and comers trying...
View ArticleDo People Really Not Know What Texting Is?
People never cease to surprise me with how brainless they can be. This American Apparel ad, which explicitly says to Text apparel to the number 23000, has actually gotten countless Facebook comments...
View ArticleWe’ve Known Texting Was Going to Destroy Conversation for Over a Century
If you’ve ever thought “man, texting is really ruining verbal communication” stop right now, before you start feeling like you’ve had an original thought. People were thinking the same thing about the...
View Article“Pay By Text” the Next Big Thing in UK Mobile Money Management
Forget the masses of differing complicated NFC virtual wallets that no one seems to want to use, there’s about to be an exciting new modern payment method in town — the humble SMS message. The UK’s...
View ArticleSending Secret Encrypted Text Messages on Your iPhone Just Got Easier
One thing your iPhone could be better at: sending secret encrypted messages (aka for sexting and/or illicit relationships). The regular messages app leaves everything hanging out in the open! Text...
View ArticleHow Hollywood Is Making Texting Look Dramatic
We all increasingly rely on non-verbal forms of communication — email, IM, texting — to let people know what’s going on in our lives. That’s great for us, but it’s causing headaches in Hollywood when...
View ArticleHow Many Texts a Day Do You Send?
Apparently messaging apps like WhatsApp have finally overtaken SMS as the medium of choice for burst-fire messages. According to new stats, 1.4 billion more chat-app messages were sent than texts last...
View ArticleThe Next Big Feature in Phones Is Universal Chat
For a long time now, our smartphones have been getting more and more, well, smart. They do more things. You probably haven’t beaten your phone at chess in years. And the race to cram increasingly...
View ArticleWhere Do You Chat?
Real-time chat has been everywhere for, you know, forever now and has swallowed everything in its path. Integrating chat platforms and finding a way to coherently deal with texting vs. chatting has...
View ArticleGoogle’s Hangouts Chat World Will Soon Pull in SMS Messages
Google’s attempt to assimilate the communications of the world will soon take a huge step forward, with a company staff member unofficially suggesting that text messages will soon slot themselves into...
View ArticleMillions of Phones Could Be Vulnerable to This SIM Card Hack
A German cryptographer claims to have hacked a SIM card. It’s never been done before (as far as we know), so it’s kind of a big deal and shows that millions of phones are potentially vulnerable from...
View ArticleIt Takes Longer To Compose Texts That Have A Lie In Them
Most people lie. Whether it’s once and a while or daily, everyone has to do their thing and sometimes lying seems like the best way to make it all work. But liars have tells, which can be just as...
View ArticleNorth Yorkshire, Suffolk and Glasgow Testing Nationwide Mobile Emergency Network
The government seems to be expecting something bad to happen in Easingwold, Leiston and Glasgow, as these are the three areas that’ll be testing two new emergency alert systems for mobiles. Around...
View ArticleYes! Leaked Screens Show SMS In Google Hangouts Is Almost Here
Google’s been leaky lately, first with Android 4.4 Kit Kat screens, and then with a whole manual for the Nexus 5. Now, some screens from Android Police are showing off the best upcoming feature on...
View ArticleSelf-Love Portal Instagram May be Launching Direct Messaging Tools
It’ll soon be much easier to make contact with those people you occasionally stalk on Instagram, thanks to a rumour that suggests the sandwich and sunset photography portal is about to bring direct...
View ArticleText Messaging Fell Last Year as Modern Ways of Exchanging Words Exploded
The rise of Wi-Fi and 3G data messaging services like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Google badgering everyone into using Hangouts has contributed to a fall in UK text messaging, with 2013 seeing UK text...
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