Android: Google Voice users get free SMS, and dictated voicemails, but they haven't always been a selling point because they could arrive up to 15 minutes late. The latest Google Voice for Android ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

If you still don’t have a smart phone and use text messages to interact with Twitter, you’ll be happy to hear that the service now lets you turn on SMS notifications for retweets, favorites, and ...

Car Recall Tracker Notifications: Enrolled users receive text notifications from Consumer Reports for newly issued recalls on their vehicles as reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

The company also plans disable a feature that automatically posts SMS replies as status updates The company also plans disable a feature that automatically posts SMS ...

If you've got six bucks to spare, you can get a year's worth of free texting--complete with new-message alerts that appear even when your iPhone is off. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

A new question sent to us via The Droid Guy Mailbag reads, “The problem is simply that I want to make a .mp3 file or a .wav file from my memory card to my SMS ringtone. My S3 only offers those basic ...

In January, I called on Apple to allow iOS users to customize the notification sounds on their devices beyond the nearly two dozen built-in sounds offered on the iPhone 4 and iPad. Back then I said, ...