There has been an 86% year-over-year surge in U.S. adults targeted by phone, email and text scams, and text scams have flourished. A CNET report says 82% of Americans now get at least one scam text ...

Text messages that come to your phone as spam messages are a nuisance at best and a risk to your personal security at worst. But somewhere in between lies a unique type of spam text message that ...

Although there's a pretty good chance you already have a phone number on your smartphone, your primary number assigned by your carrier isn't your only option for calling and texting. There are ...

Stop! Don’t reply “Stop” or Stop2End to any more infernal political text messages asking you to take a poll, click a link, or donate. That’s supposed to work, but it’s not. Just ask anyone who has ...

Republished on June 3 with another new push for users to ditch text messaging. This is the biggest shake-up to texting and messaging in years. And for Apple and Google, it risks undermining any ...

Ever received a text from an unknown number and wondered who was behind it? Instead of awkwardly replying, "Who's this?", there's a simple trick that could save you time and frustration. Mobile ...

In this day and age, phones have undeniably become the main method of communication. It seems like everyone has a cell phone in their pocket, making them capable of chatting with others over social ...