While Apple has publicly only said that it will add RCS messaging support to iOS later in 2024, a Google announcement appears to pin it down further. Google has launched a new page about RCS messaging ...

After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default. Google announced today that RCS in its Messages app is ...

Google pokes fun at Apple's resistance to adopting RCS messaging for iPhones with a new video clip promoting a fake 'iPager' device. Google is once again pressuring Apple to adopt RCS messaging, and ...

Google has stumbled in the dark for years trying to replicate the success of the iPhone's iMessage chat app. But each attempt turned into a failure until Google embraced RCS a few years ago. Google ...

Yesterday, Apple officially launched iOS 18 for the general public. The announcement came right after a week the Cupertino giant unveiled the iPhone 16 lineup. Although iOS 18 brought numerous ...

Since last year’s “Get the Message” advertising campaign online and in New York City, awareness of Rich Communication Services (RCS) is growing more mainstream. Google is now making RCS even more ...

Apple has promised to adopt RCS in 2024, and Google welcomes the company's contribution despite not adopting its encrypted extension for the standard. The Rich Communications Services messaging ...

Google today announced that it is partnering with emergency technology company RapidSOS to allow U.S. Android users to text 911 in emergencies using its Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol.

Android Messages will deliver a serious texting upgrade and come loaded on phones sold by more than 27 mobile operators and device makers around the world. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...

Google is back at it again in shading Apple's current technology, especially with the Cupertino giant's iMessage system that sticks with SMS and MMS, instead of what Android has to offer, the RCS. The ...

In a mobile world full of capable messaging apps such as Allo, Snapchat, Line, WeChat, and others, plain old text messaging seems a bit antiquated by comparison. Due to the technological constraints ...

Google has been trying to shame Apple to support the protocol Google has been trying to shame Apple to support the protocol is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge ...