Keynote Systems Inc., a test and measurement service for the Internet, has introduced a new on-demand service to monitor the delivery time of SMS messages sent through Common Short Codes. What's the ...

Vector flat phone chat bubbles. Sms messages. Speech bubbles. Short message service bubbles.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Ihor Kashurin) Q: I received a text message from 77958 with a security code for ...

Text messaging is a preferred communication channel with a 97 percent open rate. Businesses can reach busy customers with relevant and time sensitive information at the rate of 35 messages per second ...

An update to Google Voice today brings a useful, if not earth-shattering, new feature: support for SMS short codes. If your primary phone number is the one associated with your Google Voice account, ...

Short codes for Android smartphones can be used in several way, from pulling up information about the device, to communicating with the network service provider, as well as quickly accessing functions ...

A mobile marketing company called EZ Text has filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile USA, alleging that it has begun blocking EZ Text's short code service. According to EZ Text, the reason T-Mobile is ...

When the Federal Communications Commission voted last week to treat internet service providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, there was one aspect of the net ...

The government of Cameroon has forced mobile operator MTN to end its five-month old partnership with the microblogging site Twitter and to discontinue its Twitter short code service, Cameroonian ...