CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it.

To send text from your phone to your computer, copy the text you want to send over, then open the KDE Connect app on your phone, and tap the Send Clipboard button. You should see a toast message that ...

The ability to unsend a dangerous typo in messaging apps, or even in emails, is a godsend. Services like WhatsApp, iMessage, and Messenger have offered it for years. But it wasn't until 2025 that ...

Signal is launching its first paid feature: the ability to make secure, end-to-end encrypted backups of your media history older than 45 days and of your text message history for $1.99 per month.

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with ...

Blue text bubbles have almost always been associated with Apple. The easiest way to know if someone's an Android or iPhone user without even meeting them is by sending them a text message and checking ...

Some hackers have reportedly gained access to Discord users’ data. The data contains as many as 1.8 billion text messages, nearly 207 million voice records, and data from about 35 million users. These ...

Last year, Spotify introduced the ability for users to leave comments on podcast episodes, perhaps as a first step to becoming something more like a social media platform. Now, the company is ...

A lot of people have been noticing a small blue dot next to their text messages or contacts on their Android devices, and it's not some quirky design element. There's a reason why some of the contacts ...

The Department of Homeland Security has not kept text message data from top officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, since April, according to a nonprofit watchdog group. In a ...

Microsoft is testing a new feature called "Continue on PC" on Windows 11 that will allow users to resume the use of an active Android app on their smartphones without the need to manually do so. Users ...