China's three biggest telcos have yet to release their latest stats, but other industry numbers indicate the number of SMS sent during the recent Chinese Lunar New Year has dropped for the first time.

The world’s first SMS has been sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $149,729 (€132,680) at auction in Paris, according to the auctioneer Aguttes. Reading “Merry Christmas,” the message was sent by ...

For those wondering what NFTs are, these are non-fungible tokens that exist on the blockchain built on top of hashes that are used by cryptocurrency. These NFTs represent ownership, meaning if a ...

British telco giant Vodafone reportedly has plans to auction the world’s first Short Message Service (SMS) in the form of a nonfungible token (NFT) on Tuesday. The SMS, that reads “Merry Christmas,” ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueDialog, a leading provider of enterprise-grade SMS texting solutions, today announced the launch of the SMS Grader, the first-ever free online tool ...

Feel old yet? The first SMS was sent 25 years ago today. For context, that makes it older than Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Harry Styles. If the SMS was a person, it’d be a debt-crushed millennial ...

Ppl! Txting is 20 yrs old! Thats soo GR8! Depending on your perspective, you might thank or blame Matti Makkonen, the pioneer of texting, for how it changed human communication. Just don't shoot the ...