It's the holidays, so my phone is abuzz with messages. The problem is, most of the texts I'm receiving aren't from family and friends. Instead, I'm inundated with offers for tax prep assistance, back ...

Whether it’s a constant stream of spam messages or that persistent ex who won’t take “no” for an answer, blocking text messages is something you need to learn how to do. Whether you use an iPhone or ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Though we have come a long way when it comes to communicating with friends and family over the internet thanks to social media apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, sometimes plain old texting through the ...

Public Knowledge, Free Press, and others urge FCC to establish rules preventing mobile carriers from blocking text messages from competitors and political groups The U.S. Federal Communications ...

What must be a very small subset of Android users should be very angry with Google for blocking RCS support in Google Messages on their smartphones. These users have rooted their phones to run a ...

Eight consumer groups have complained that mobile phone providers should not be allowed to block text messages from political groups and advertisers Eight consumer and public-interest groups filed a ...

Have you experienced not being able to send a message to a particular person but instead gets an error message such as “message blocking active”? Most of the time ...

Eight consumer and public interest groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission today, saying that mobile network operators shouldn’t be able to block text messages sent by ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A text message-blocking app estimates politicians sent 253 million political text messages in the last year. So basically... if you have a cell phone. You’ve seen these ...

Cell phone spam is a real problem. In fact, one tech analyst writing for Forbes recently opined that the “Do Not Call List” doesn’t work and estimated as many as 100 billion robocalls—calls lacking a ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission needs to prohibit mobile phone carriers from blocking text messages from competitors, a coalition of advocacy groups said today. Mobile carriers continue to ...