Google will reportedly add SMS sending capabilities to Gmail Chat today which will now let desktop Gmail users swap instant messages with mobile phone users via SMS protocol. Previously Gmail users ...

Google rarely sends new features out into the wild before they are ready for prime time, despite the fact that it stamps just about everything with "beta", but SMS via chat was something that ...

Google and a handful of U.S. carriers are set to redefine the SMS standard. The search company announced a year ago that Android Messages would be preloaded by 20 or more OEMs as the official Rich ...

We've known about Google's plans to replace SMS with the Rich Communication Services standard (RCS) for a couple of years. Now, it's been revealed that the company's brand name for this iMessage-style ...

“Email and messaging should be simple,” declared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a press conference Monday. He explained three pillars to an overhauled messaging system on the social network site: ...