Of the companies I saw yesterday at the Under the Radar: Mobility conference (more stories), the most audacious, and therefore my favorite, was Zoove. This company makes a service and a technology ...

Verizon Wireless? decision to block SMS search and alert service 4Info?s flagship common short code on Friday, Dec. 4 was allegedly due to a dust-up over following industry guidelines. The Basking ...

Long Codes are 10-digit numbers used for direct two-way communication with two or more parties. Following the traditional number format of landlines and cell phones, Long Codes are used in voice calls ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

Update, Feb. 26, 2025: This story, originally published Feb. 23, now includes additional commentary regarding the potential security implications of the decision to deprecate SMS from the Gmail ...