Free text apps offer different features than the standard SMS texting app built into your phone. Many third-party texting apps offer better security and privacy, extensive group chats, WiFi texting, ...

Facebook Messenger is rapidly becoming the one-stop-shop for all your communications — from SMS, voice/video/group calls, payment, transportation, apps, bots and more. Following the company’s annual ...

Yahoo Messenger now has an iPhone app (iTunes link). It lets you IM your friends, see their status, share photos, share links, choose emoticons, and see recent conversations. It also lets you send ...

Not happy that Facebook now forces you to use its Messenger app? Here's how to beat the company at its own game. Rick Broida Senior Editor Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

Remember when you used to be able to send SMS text messages with the Facebook messenger app, but then it mysteriously vanished never to be heard from again? Well, it looks like Facebook is hellbent on ...

The trend toward distributed content — moving news and information from open platforms to those controlled by a few tech giants — has a new and interesting example. Instead of the web, it’s SMS — ...

Actual Encryption & Privacy are two features that many users have started looking at when it comes to voice and video calls. Just like how text chat should be secure ...

MUNICH — Facebook will continue investing in and developing more capabilities for its Messenger application, such as voice-to-text transcription and tools for consumers to talk to businesses, a senior ...