If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an Android phone, that text is green. On its surface, it may seem like no ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Google, the developer of the Android, is increasing the pressure on Apple to adopt RCS, a next-generation standard for text messaging. It argues that ...

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When you grab your phone to text a family member or a friend, you can often tell if the person you’re messaging has the same kind of phone as you. You’re either a blue bubble in the text thread — i.e.

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app “exploited fake credentials” and posed a security and privacy risk. The move has ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...

Currently, iMessage users can apply animated effects to chat bubbles, as well as send full-screen effects. For example, you can momentarily fill the chat screen with floating balloons. However, Apple ...

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