SMS and RCS are communication protocols. While SMS relies on simplicity and ubiquity, RCS offers major feature upgrades in every other area. SMS is limited to short and plain texts, while RCS lets you ...

In a surprise move, technology giant Apple says 2024 will see it adopt the RCS messaging standard that aims to eventually replace SMS, allowing for improved messaging between smartphones running ...

Apple’s entrance into the market, with support over iOS devices, will grow the number of active users by 900 million over the next two years; reaching 2.1 billion active users globally. The report ...

Few other communication tools have as much reach as SMS. While we might only sporadically check emails and instant messages ...

There’s strength in numbers. That’s something to keep in mind when considering how to safeguard the messaging channels that consumers overwhelmingly prefer to interact with retailers, banks, airlines, ...

The classic SMS texting born in the 1990s can’t handle the feature-rich environment of today’s digital world. Many apps, such as Apple’s iMessage, don’t rely on SMS, but Apple still offers the service ...

Google today announced a partnership that will allow Android users to message 911 through RCS. The capability is set to start rolling out this winter. Communicating with 911 over SMS is possible in ...

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.

Rich Communications Services (RCS) is like SMS on steroids and offers an excellent retail media channel – if you know how to ...

Good news is coming to your group chat. Today, Apple said it will add support for the RCS messaging standard to the iPhone. The website 9to5Mac broke the news that Apple will release a software update ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said ...

The new Beeper Mini app brings native iMessage support to Android devices but without any support for SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, and the many other chat apps supported by the original Beeper app. Here’s the ...