A text message can be thought of as a kind of short e-mail — 160 characters or fewer including spaces — that is most commonly sent to another cell phone for that person to read.

People in the United States are using their cell phones more often to send terse 160-character messages to other cell phones, a trend already wildly popular overseas. Cell phone messaging on the ...

A nationwide test means the same text message will be sent to every cell phone in the U.S. later this week. The Federal Communications Commission is conducting the nationwide test of the Wireless ...

Enter the recipient's cell phone email address in the "To" field. The address is comprised of the recipient's 10-digit phone number and SMS gateway – for example, [email protected].

For instance, Chase Bank provides account information as a response to specific text messages, and a signature stops the process. Some cell phones and apps limit the length of text message signatures.

Getting the message to every American with a cell phone is scheduled to happen in a 30-minute window. ... Every cell phone in the nation will get the same text message next week.