NetworkNews
T-Mobile Explains Outage: ‘We Didn’t Meet Our Own Bar For Excellence’

T-Mobile experienced a major outage Monday, impacting thousands of customers around the world as voice and text services were down.

IT Management
EndlessJabber Lets Android Users Send And Receive Texts Remotely

EndlessJabber is a new Android app, which enables users to send and receive SMS/MMS messages from any PC, tablet, web browser or XMPP client. The folks behind it are currently raising funds through KickStarter. Here’s why you might find the…

Retail & eCommerce
Square Cash Adds Ability To Text Money To People

Square introduced Square Cash last fall, enabling people to send money to one another using a simple email. Now, you can also send money by texting. The company announced today that it has released an update to the mobile app…

SocialMediaNews
Facebook Is At Least Trying To Make The Android Experience Better

The Facebook experience on Android devices is notoriously bad. A little too often, things just don’t work like you’d want them to. Facebook realizes this. Last month, reports came out that Facebook began forcing employees to use the Android app,…

Life
Fan Sues Pittsburg Penguins Over Texts

An NHL fan is suing the Pittsburg Penguins over what he thinks are excessive text messages sent by the club as part of a promotional campaign. Fred Weiss says that he signed up to recieve texts that included special offers…

SocialMediaNews
Facebook Creating Decline In Text Usage?

Although texting seems to be the preferred mode of communication these days–especially with the teenage demographic–a new study shows that it might be taking a hit from messaging services, especially Facebook’s. A telecommunications consulting firm called Strand Consult is behind…

IT Management
Using Cellphones to Lie and Cheat [Infographic]

This next infographic comes to us from Online-Education.Net and it reveals some pretty interesting facts about deception and cellphones. Since almost everybody, including young children, has a cellphone now, it is a more relevant topic than ever. What’s going on…

Business
Free Texting Is Cutting Into Profits

For years text messaging has been a cash cow for mobile communication providers. Some people pay for an unlimited plan, others have a cap on their texts. If you go over or don’t have a plan, you pay by the…

SearchNews
Free Text Messaging App From Yahoo: Hub

Were you just thinking to yourself: “I wish there were an easier way to have conversations from my phone?” If so, Yahoo claims to have the solution with its mobile app Hub, which comes with the tagline: “conversations made easy”.…

Business
AT&T Messaging Plans: Perspectives

AT&T is getting people riled up with its new plans for messing plans. This is not exactly the first time AT&T has touched a giant nerve among customers. Another recent nerve-touching occurred when the company put its data limits in…