Free text apps offer different features than the SMS texting app built into your iPhone or Android phone.

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don’t have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost. They work with different types of phones, ...

Driving while texting can be worse than driving after drinking. Which is one reason why in the basement of the Washington Court Hotel, a panel spoke onstage Friday of using technology to fix the ...

Line Corp. is betting that tie-ups with Japan's biggest financial institutions will help convince its 78 million users to entrust the free texting app with their money. The operator of Japan's most ...