As Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi proudly showed off a ton of new features for iMessage during Apple’s keynote at WWDC on Monday, the word Android never crossed ...

Apple has always had its own Messages setup but earlier this year, the company announced it would make Apple messages compatible with Rich Communications Services, the text messaging standard used on ...

While you can enjoy Microsoft and Google apps on iOS, the opposite is generally not true, with Apple keeping the majority of its apps and services locked away in its own ecosystem. It would be a safe ...

Republished on May 20 with comments on new messaging deal in U.S. and news of WhatsApp’s largest ever marketing campaign as messaging battle heats up. It was all going so well — to an extent.

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Google, the developer of the Android, is increasing the pressure on Apple to adopt RCS, a next-generation standard for text messaging. It argues that ...

RCS 3.0 was officially unveiled by the GSMA, an association representing mobile network operators. On the face of it, it’s fairly boring news. However, this one is special because it’ll finally fix ...

Messaging on Android has always felt like a work in progress. While iPhone users have long enjoyed the simplicity and cohesiveness of iMessage, Android users continue to juggle multiple apps, ...

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) has said that it’s working on bringing end-to-end encryption to different messaging platforms that support the RCS protocol. Unfortunately, the ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...

Summary: Lucid, a new phishing-as-a-service platform from China, is being used by hackers to send more than 100,000 scam iMessages per day to iPhone users. The platform is using iMessages to bypass ...

Apple services like iMessage and FaceTime often work exclusively on Apple’s hardware, something the company uses to keep customers inside its ecosystem and encourage people who buy one Apple product ...