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Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The technology underpinning early mobile text messaging began development in the 1980s. The short message service (SMS) ...

Ever wondered why your text messages sometimes fail to send, show up pixelated or don’t appear at all on the other person’s end? It might not be your phone, but your carrier’s messaging support.

Text message marketing is a powerful tool for reaching your customers. See some SMS marketing examples and adapt them to your ...

SMS messaging has become a powerful tool for businesses to connect with their audiences. From marketing campaigns to customer service, business texting offers a direct and immediate way to engage. But ...

A closeup picture of a phone keyboard. The acronym T9 stands for Text on 9 keys. T9 "predictive texting" is a tool used primarily on non-smartphones (those with just a nine-key keyboard similar to a ...

There are many reasons for wanting to print out a text message. Maybe someone sent you some exciting news via SMS, and you'd like to print it out and pin it on your bulletin board. Or maybe someone ...

Imagine a workplace where your team juggles between emails, instant messages, and external SMS platforms just to stay connected. It’s not only inefficient but also prone to miscommunication and delays ...

AT&T is shutting down its email-to-text and text-to-email services on June 17, 2025. The feature lets users send texts via email and receive texts as emails using special AT&T addresses. While some ...

Not all conversations require a phone call. Sometimes a simple text message is exactly what's needed to get the job done. Let’s be honest: talking on the phone isn't always fun — or necessary. In fact ...

The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...