Global carrier revenue from SMS services is in decline, and the cause of the slide is a topic of much debate. Mobile messaging services such as WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s iMessage are widely believed to have had a tremendous impact wireless service providers’ messaging revenues, however another company has ...

Microsoft has started to push out a new software update for the Windows Phone devices out there, so as to fix a series of issues that users have been experiencing lately.The update is said to have already emerged on LG Optimus 7 mobile phones on Vodafone’s network, and ...

Microsoft is reportedly testing a fix to a Windows Phone SMS security hole that was first discovered by Khaled Salameh earlier this month. “[Microsoft's] Security Team contacted me today, they’ve confirmed the WP7 SMS Bug and found the root cause, a fix is currently under testing,” Salameh tweeted on Wednesday. ...

A new version of Google+ for handsets running under Android is now available for download via the Android Market, with a nice range of new features and options included into the mix, in addition to the already detailed Hangouts on mobile, or the new Messenger (previously known as Huddle). ...

Indian carrier Tata Indicom has just announced the availability of a new special ‘SMS Express’ offer for new pre-paid customers, as well as the launch of a new messaging-oriented handset, the Alcatel OT-255C.Prepaid customers who wish to take advantage of the new offer must ... (read more)

AT&T has dropped its requirement that all customers purchasing “quick messaging devices” — or QMDs for short –  subscribe to an unlimited texting plan. According to Fierce Wireless, AT&T implemented the rule in January 2010 before quietly discontinuing it sometime in February of this year. The unlimited texting plan was ...

Nimbuzz has just announced a new feature aimed at offering a better experience to all of its users out there, namely Nimbuzz Ping, through which users would receive free SMS notifications whenever friends are trying to connect with them. Through this feature, all mobile phone users are showed ...

It looks like Samsung decided to go official with the upcoming software update for the Nexus S, which should fix some of the bugs and glitches that have been reported by owners.The Korean handset manufacturer confirmed via its Galaxy S Support Twitter account that an over-the-air (OTA) software update for ...

Samsung has announced via its Twitter support account, that Google Nexus S owners should expect an over the air update "in the next few days" that will solve a problem with SMS messages being sent to the wrong contact. The issue is not just found on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which runs ...

Android, Google's mobile operating system, should soon taste a series of fixes, some of which are meant to solve issues that many users of the platform signaled in regard to the SMS application on their devices. As previously reported, some Android phones were sending text messages to the wrong ...

Last week, we told you about a pesky SMS bug that has been plaguing some users of  Google’s Android operating system. The issue in question, which Google asserts is quite rare, causes text messages to be sent to unintended or random recipients. In the company’s bug-tracking system, a response has ...

NetQin Mobile, one of the leading mobile security software providers has just announced that it has recently identified a new virus on Android devices. According to NetQin, the virus known as “MSO.PJApps” is said to be causing private data leaks and to secretly subscribe users to paid services.It s... (read ...