Consumer gadget enthusiasts might have fawned over the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and the Huawei Watch at Mobile World Congress, but if you are an internet of things geek, the… Read more »
At Mobile World Congress on Monday Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took the stage with three executives from carriers in developing countries to talk about the progress of Internet.org and its attempts to… Read more »
AT&T promised it would create the first pan-North American service area when it bought Mexico’s Iusacell last month, and it’s wasting no time getting started on the multinational footprint. On Tuesday,… Read more »
Nexmo, a telecom carrier that offers communications services from the cloud, had quite the 2014 as it saw the calls to various APIs double. Like its larger and better-known rival Twilio, Nexmo sells… Read more »
ZipWhip, a startup that is extending SMS beyond the mobile phone, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Chicago private equity firm Ronin Capital. ZipWhip has a cloud-based messaging… Read more »
If you’re a app developer or online merchant that uses Stripe to process your customers, you can now get some pretty nifty alerts thanks to a partnership between Stripe and If This… Read more »
Last year T-Mobile started offering free SMS and 2G data to customers that ventured beyond U.S. borders. Now it’s taking a crack at the other side of that cross-border communication equation… Read more »
VoLTE is in the same place as SMS it was back in 2000: locked down to specific carrier networks and devices. By making VoLTE services interoperable, though, VoLTE could become as… Read more »
There are plenty of services today that will let you make a voice call from your PC, but Jibe wants to make the browser a seamless extension of your mobile phone… Read more »
The settlement will go to pay fines and legal costs, but $80 million of it will be used to refund AT&T customers who fell victim to SMS subscription scams in the… Read more »