Verizon says its satellite text messaging service is now available to owners of Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones at no extra charge
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Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages
- Kyivstar to offer text messages via Starlink by late 2025 — Starlink terminals are critical to Ukraine's war effort
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers
Stop Sending Texts Jonny Evans / Computerworld : The FBI now says encryption is good for you — Apple has been battling to maintain encryption for a decade. Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity : Feds Pu...
Solutions by Text, which offers conversational messaging tools for businesses to let users pay bills and more via text, raised $110M, after raising $35M in 2021
Solutions by Text, a company that gives people a way to pay their bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has secured $110 million in new growth funding.
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook. Tweets: @kevincollier , @andymstone , @kevinco...
NYC-based Regal, an outbound call and text messaging tools provider to brands, raised a $38.5M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $350M post-money valuation
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NYC-based Regal, an outbound call and text messaging tools provider to brands, raised a $38.5M Series A led by Emergence Capital at a $350M post-money valuation
Getting prospective customers to answer sales calls and texts can feel like a Sisyphean task.
Sources: Swiss company Mitto, which offers text message services to companies, tells clients co-founder Ilja Gorelik has departed after surveillance accusations
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rj_gallagher , @tsgiles , and @bradstone Tweets: Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : “The lack of regulation & accountability has brought unnecessary privacy & secu...
Comments from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile suggest they have killed their joint Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, which aimed to establish RCS interoperability
Rich Communications Service, a tech to replace SMS & MMS and make regular text messaging more like Apple Messages or Facebook's WhatsApp. @mikeddano pinged several US players, and they don't sound enc...
Critics argue that the FCC should classify text messaging as a telecommunications service so that phone companies can't discriminate against messages
a new database to track changed numbers and rules to combat spammy texts. But on texts, Rosenworcel and others fear it could stifle political speech. Me + @b_fung http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...