Text messaging has taken on a life of its own in the enterprise, providing a sure-fire way to grab a colleague's attention quickly and all but ensure an instantaneous response. But all this text ...

Text message two-factor authentication sounds like a security upgrade. It feels official. It looks responsible. Yet it often ...

Have you been using the new RCS format to send texts between an iPhone and an Android phone? If so, you could be exposing your messages to snooping by foreign hackers. In a news call with reporters on ...

Mobile operator Sprint Nextel has teamed up with TigerText, a privately held, Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of secure text messaging services, to offer two texting products for healthcare ...

Healthcare clinicians and the IT professionals who support them are hearing more and more about the untapped promise of secure text messaging tools. Most people, after all, already have a cellphone ...

The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security ...

You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a ...

Trillions of text messages are sent and received via SMS-enabled devices every day, but have you ever stopped to ask, “What is SMS, exactly?” One of the oldest forms of mobile messaging, SMS messages ...

Apple's messaging app Messages has adopted a new cross-platform messaging standard called RCS. Here's how to be sure you have it enabled on your iPhone, and what new features it gives you when ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that while it's permissible for healthcare entities to use secure texting platforms for communicating certain patient information, the use of ...

Physicians are every bit as mobile physically as smartphone-driven communications have become virtually. When your “office” on a given day might be a dozen patient rooms at a hospital or two clinics ...