We focus so much on smartphones and their applications these days, we tend to overlook the large number of individuals out there that haven’t made the switch to constantly-connected phones. In an effort to give those users a way to take advantage of Twitter’s features, the company announced that pictures can now be posted to Twitter by way of SMS.

With the opening of the Palo Alto AT&T Foundry the carrier is showing off an idea that could make conversations easier. The app is called AT&T Messages, and it will put all of your conversations into the cloud so you can access them from anywhere. AT&T Messages will hook into your primary phone number to more »

With the Verizon iPhone looming in the distance, it looks like AT&T is trying to more directly competer with it’s biggest rival. That means changes are coming, maybe not huge changes, but changes nonetheless. According to a leaked image obtained by Gear Live, AT&T plans on changing up it’s SMS rates to be more in more »

AT&T is really pushing hard against texting and driving. Currently, every AT&T phone comes wrapped in driving with the phrase “TXTNG & DRIVING… IT CAN WAIT.” Now AT&T is taking the next step, distributing a 10 minute documentary about the dangers of texting and driving. The documentary is free, and will be distributed to schools, more »

Facebook announced their new messages system the other day and that included mail. Or more accurately it included the ability to get an @facebook.com email address. If you missed the announcement you can read our earlier post here. But in short, you will be able to give out and receive email sent to a Facebook more »

The free text and picture messaging app textPlus has announced a new feature — phone numbers. Yup, the textPlus app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has recently been updated and now when launched it will give you the option to get an actual phone number. In other words, your Text Plus setup will more »

A new messaging application created by Voila, allows SMS messages to be broadcast to specific geographic locations. The service has been providing geo-specific information to help subscribers deal with issues pertinent to their location. Previously, broadcast messages went to all subscribers. This means those in the flood-prone areas of Port-au-Prince could get messages on safe more »

If you had a Peek, other than the Peek 9 you lost your service over the weekend. Kind of a bummer, though the news of the permanent outage does arrive with a silver lining. Bottom line here, Peek switched providers and at the same time seems to have killed off all older devices. The good more »

In the past year, Nimbuzz, a universal communications platform (think Skype but for more devices), has past 3.65 billion mobile minutes used and seen 150 million downloads. Compatible with Symbian, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, as well as Windows and Mac desktop computers, Nimbuzz offers both free calls as well as Nimbuzz Out calls more »